All entries tagged “design”
2023
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I’ve noticed a tendency for folks in business settings to talk about design as being either “data-oriented” or not. I feel like that does a disservice to qualitative measures like user testing, which are absolutely vital to good design and often left out of people’s notions of what qualifies as “data.”
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2020
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The Visual Storytelling of Run The Jewels
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Hacking Design Language With Funsize and ProPublica
Last summer, the team at Funsize invited ProPublica down to Austin for a studio tradition they call Method Week.
2019
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What is Art Direction for the Web?
Andy Clarke has written a wonderful new book about art direction for the web, and I got to play a little part in it.
2018
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2015
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On the ProPublica Podcast With Khoi Vinh
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Gateway Drug to Empathy
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It Is, in Fact, Rocket Science
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From Design to Meta-design
On the changing nature of the professional design practice, and shifting to a broader point of view.
2014
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Educated vs “Industry-ready”
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Designing the Editorial Experience
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Fitting Design to the News
Because it’s often tangled up with personal taste, conversations about news design can get very messy, very fast.
2013
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Print to Screen, Static to Dynamic
When comparing digital systems and legacy artifacts, it’s important to remember digital systems aren’t fully realized until they’re interacted with.
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Combining to Yield Intuition
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Considering the Visual Future of iOS
Jason Santa Maria captures something about the “flat vs skeuomorphic” debate that’s been bugging me, especially when it comes to iOS.
2012
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Saying ‘Pfft!’ to Boundary Conditions
This actually happened…
2009
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Adapting Designs as Content Evolves
How your designs scale with use is one of those things you need to diligently revisit and tweak as products mature.
2007
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24 Hour Visual People
“I’m really more of a visual person.”
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The Redesign Response Curve
In every redesign I’ve been involved with, user response has followed a predictable pattern.
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On Pushing Back Against Obviously Bad Ideas
In which we recall the tragedy of the CueCat.