“You have seen me around your office. I look smart, usually wearing shiny white trainers combined with dark trousers rolled up a bit so that you can see my expensive socks — casual and expensive T-Shirt of one Pantone® colour and Oliver People’s glasses to look smart.”

I’m a PostIt® Note Designer →

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Editors’ picks

The dangers of Product Longtermism →
No guarantees the future will hold the same values as us.

On disruption and complacency →
Work that drives change where it actually matters.

Is less innovation actually better? →
Finding critical behavior change for your business.

Monotype type trends: a celebration of the unique typographic voices of our times.

Make me think

Stop making the Ukraine war about you →
“Social media isn’t necessarily the source of this tendency, but it has accelerated the impulse for people to be obsessed with their own subjectivity; unable to process global events outside of the prism of their own emotional reaction and the relatively minor ways they are affected.. You’re not suffering from ‘vicarious trauma’, you’re tweeting in your living room.”

How does perspective work in pictures? →
“There is no such thing as correct perspective; all choices of perspective have advantages and disadvantages. It is impossible to accurately portray everything about 3D space in a 2D picture, so artists must make choices, and linear perspective is just one option.”

The best design system is no system →
“The idea of design systems can be found throughout history. In order to meet expanding needs, designers turn to design systems to streamline design with the hopes of providing value at lower cost and effort.”

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Little gems this week

Decolonizing typography: creating a font for African writing systems →

Analyzing Apple Music’s UX →

Continuous Design and how to enable it →

Tools and resources

Designing rating systems →
And deconstructing the meaning of 5-star ratings.

Gist →
View & write your documentation in Figma.

UX skill mapping →
The complete UX team skill mapping scorecard.

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