The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2017/05/30

medium.com

Floating labels are problematic

We are often seduced by novel patterns that save space but this pattern is problematic. Here's why: Floating labels start inside the text box leaving no space for an additional hint. Floating labels typically have small text, so that as it floats, it takes up a small amount of space.

collectorsweekly.com

To Hell With Helvetica: Is an 1874 Type Catalog the World's Most Beautiful Book?

William Hamilton Page was not the first American to earn a living cutting slabs of end-grain sugar maple into precisely ornate blocks of wood type, but he was definitely the first American to push this once-ubiquitous printing format into the realm of fine art.

fontjoy.com

Fontjoy: Create novel font combinations via deep learning

Fontjoy helps designers choose the best font combinations using deep learning

typography.guru

The honest YouTube Sans reviews

medium.muz.li

Design Thinking vs Design Sprints, what's the difference?

Whenever I write anything about Design Sprints (DS), run a DS workshop or basically post anything process related involving post-its, I get the same type of comment: "So, this is is basically Design Thinking, right?" It's not that people are being ignorant, there is just genuine confusion about what Design Thinking (DT) is and how it compares to other design processes.