The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2017/01/03

medium.com

24 Designers in 4 Days: An (Out of) Office Hours Experiment

Last week, I did my best to give advice to 24 strangers in a series of 30 minute one-on-one sessions over 4 days. It was one of the most fun / unique / rewarding / stressful / exciting / weird...

smashingmagazine.com

Illustrating Animals With 13 Circles: A Tutorial And Drawing Challenge

Editor's Note: New year, new challenges! You might have set up your New Year's resolutions already, but if not, how about designing something... different for a change? Today, we're happy to introduce Dorota, an artist who created a fun little project last year that was inspired by Twitter's new logo based on 13 circles.

typewolf.com

The typographic details behind Typewolf’s favorite sites of December

This is the 35th installment of my monthly feature on Typewolf where I share my favorite type-driven websites from the previous month and then write a little about the typographic details behind the designs. You can check out last month's post for November here.

ncase.me

To Build a Better Ballot

an interactive guide to alternative voting systems

fastcodesign.com

The Best And Worst User Interfaces Of 2016

Remember 2016? It was the year that our smartphones became boring, and smartwatches proved to be less a revolution than an alternative to any other watch. But things also got weird this year: VR finally had its moment in the limelight-Oculus Rift and HTC Vive both hit after years of hype-while Pokemon Go and Snapchat normalized augmented reality, seemingly overnight.