The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2016/10/27

medium.com

The Original Emoji Set Has Been Added to The Museum of Modern Art’s Collection

We are thrilled to announce the addition of NTT DOCOMO's original set of 176 emoji to the MoMA collection. Developed under the supervision of Shigetaka Kurita and released for cell phones in 1999, these 12 x 12 pixel humble masterpieces of design planted the seeds for the explosive growth of a new visual language.

blog.prototypr.io

Storyboarding in 3D

Storyboarding in 3D In 1949, Pablo Picasso worked with MIT-educated photographer and film director, Gjon Mili in a small French apartment to experiment and play with light in 3d space. These now famous light paintings exhibit how Picasso thought about line and shape in 3D space and challenged the public's thinking about the ephemeral creation of art.

medium.muz.li

The Ultimate Guide to Chatbots: Why they're disrupting UX

Although chatbots are familiar to most people in the tech industry, they're still a novelty to a majority of the world. I went home to Nebraska in September and when I told everyone what I was working on I got responses like: "You mean like those things that you could talk to on AOL when you were bored?"

design.google.com

Design Is Never Done

Material Design's new suite of tools and guidelines-all in one place.

microsoft.com

Microsoft Surface Studio: Turn your desk into a Studio

Designed for the creative process, Microsoft Surface Studio gives you a huge canvas for all kinds of work. Touch it, draw on it, develop your ideas in a natural way.