The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2016/07/01

medium.freecodecamp.com

What k-pop can teach us about design

Good design builds trust The other night, my roommate showed me some of his favorite k-pop videos on YouTube. As we were browsing, he suddenly got excited. It turns out, one of his favorite k-pop groups had just released a new music video. Between the k-pop group and him, there was an implicit agreement.

medium.com

How to Declutter your Design

Tips for a neat & orderly UI I'ts been said that "simplicity is an art form", and in the case of UI design nothing could be more true. As designers, we're often faced with use cases that require us to pack a lot of information into what should be a lean Web design.

medium.com

(Design) Lead Starter Kit

It's my first time leading a design team. When I accepted this job, I'm not super sure what Kyle said it was, but I know all I heard was "do you want to figure out how to standardize the shit out of a massively nuanced illustration style". Yes, Kyle, I do.

format.com

Format Magazine

Format Magazine explores the world's leading creative minds to inspire and inform through honest experiences, opinions and practices.

callmenick.com

SVG Vector Effects

A few days ago, I ran into a little problem when using SVGs. I'd created a reusable set of SVG symbols for a project I was working on, and started sprucing it up with all the pretty icons my designer gave to me.

basedesign.com

Base Design: We create iconic brands.

We design ingeniously simple brands and build unique personalities. We humanize corporations, launch visions and clarify the complex.