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Weekly recap #19
Design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
Why chatbots are not the future - Ever since ChatGPT exploded in popularity, my inner designer has been bursting at the seams. -
Why design guidelines aren't enough - This two minute clip from my Mind the Gap presentation looks at why pulling a few off-the-shelf design components from a library is not the same thing as creating a good user experience. -
Product design ↘
There's only 3 ways to solve a problem - Most of the time, designers try to solve a problem. But solving a problem isn't the best way to deal with a problem. There is a better way. Here's are all three ways to deal with a problem. -
Come up with design ideas alone - Ideation is the act of coming up with ideas that might solve a problem. It's easier to come up with ideas when you have other people to talk through the problem with, but you won't always have that luxury. -
Design engineering ↘
Heliograph: Mixpanel's brand design system - For us, the heliograph symbolizes our mission to convey our identity to the world and to maintain clear, concise, and easily understood information. -
Icon transcendence: customizing icons to complement fonts - How can we leverage fonts' styles and characteristics to create icons that provide more seamless product flows and designs? In this post, we'll build a bridge between these two important interface elements. -
Tools and resources ↘
Shantell Sans - A marker-style font built for creative expression, typographic play, and animation. It is available as a 5-axis variable font as well as a collection of static fonts. -
Fixel Variable Font - Fixel is a typeface in two styles, Text and Display, and offers nine weight options ranging from Thin to Black. -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
Cohere: A visual identity for the world's most 'hyped' technology - Pentagram worked collaboratively with NLP pioneers Cohere to design its new visual identity, website and playground environment, alongside a suite of super-powered bespoke digital tools created for its design team to use as the company grows. -
Last but not least ↘
Why we change our mind - How do we know which food is best for us? We might start a low-carb diet. Then we switch to whole grains, or even go fully vegan—only to return to a low-carb diet yet again. We constantly change our minds -
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