The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2016/08/20

npr.design

Designing News Products With Empathy: 50 Stress Cases To Consider

Designing News Products With Empathy: 50 Stress Cases To Consider Many people want to catch up on the news and stay informed, but these aren't the only reasons people consume news. They also search for news in moments of crisis, times of anxiety and urgent situations.

erickarjaluoto.com

Turning the Ship

I was sick of advertising. This presented a sort of problem, as our studio was doing more of this type of work. We first pursued it hoping it would even out our cash flow. As we did, though, I realized how vast the gulf between design and advertising was.

medium.com

We need to talk about Design Sprints…

Design Sprints shouldn't replace your design process You should already be employing a design process and whether you're working as a designer embedded within an agile development squad or as a designer in moderate isolation your process should be something you hold dear.

zurb.com

Transforming the Lives of Adults With Disabilities Through 24 Hours of Design

We were thrilled to have one of the largest and most diverse set of nonprofits ever apply for Wired this year, it was truly a difficult decision to choose from such an amazing pool of applicants! After meeting with each nonprofit and hearing more about their causes, our team selected Life Services Alternatives for ZURB Wired 2016!

erickarjaluoto.com

Designers Should Learn Marketing

I'm unconvinced of the familiar "designers must code" refrain. Sure, some designers need to code-just to get closer to their materials. (For example, if you create data visualizations, you probably want to turn the knobs for yourself.) That said, this unilateral belief that all designers must code seems simplistic.

css-tricks.com

`font-display` for the Masses

The following is a guest post by Jeremy Wagner, a web developer, author, and speaker living in the Twin Cities. He's got a new book on web performance. Here we're going to dig into a brand new CSS feature, that once it percolates through the browser ecosystem, will be great for performance.

blog.typekit.com

Flexible typography with CSS locks

In early 2012, I shared a formula for "molten leading", or fluid line spacing. Experienced typographers know that long lines of text need more line spacing, but line spacing can be tighter for short lines of text. The problem is that on the web, our texts are flexible.

chargebee.com

The Mysterious Student, Dieter Rams, and Cracking Global Markets

The February 27, 1967 edition of the Associated Press carried a rather intriguing story on it. A story, which would go on to pique the interest of psychologists, and be instrumental in the strengthening of a then-nascent psychological phenomenon.

enigma.swiss

Enigma: Communication & Branding Agency

SWITZERLAND'S RISING STRATEGIC & CREATIVE NETWORK We design transversal brand ecosystems for contemporary challenges.