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Who is responsible for the impact of innovative products?

And why is it designers?

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Are design ethics useless?

There’s something very off with the user-centeredness of design.

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Why is open source software so badly designed?

It’s not just a matter of developers acting friendlier or designers acting less egoistically.

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A not so gentle intro to web3

You’re not too stupid to understand what’s going on.

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Bringing markers back to UI design

Here’s something to make Figma play nice with paper freehand sketches.

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Design better by avoiding your cognitive biases

Can you outsmart your brain? Seven biases that mess up your designs and what you can do against them.

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Semantic sidenotes for the web

It’s good practice to make blog posts short. But I like to add details, anecdotes and silliness.

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A guide to implemen­ting dark modes on websites

Adding a dark mode is basically adding a theme.

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What is design?

Try to explain one sentence: what is design? To me it's a lot of things, but many of those are optional.

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Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD, UXPin or InVision Studio: which one?

After years of Adobe being the name for all your design software, Sketch set a new standard for UI design tools.