A shortfilm about a writer from Brooklyn who found his thing in handcrafted knife making. A very inspiring story!
In our second film, we meet writer turned knife maker Joel Bukiewicz of Cut Brooklyn. He talks about the human element of craft, and the potential for a skill to mature into an art. And in sharing his story, he alights on the real meaning of handmade—a movement whose riches are measured in people, not cash.
Imran Parvez wrote an interesting article on Medium about how to design a settings page. He covers some of the common mistakes and then some possible solutions with many references to the official design guidelines from Android and iOS.
Difficult product decisions should never become a setting. For example: If there’s a debate in your team which is building an email client, whether to show four lines of summary or two lines of summary for each email. Do not make it a setting!
Worth a read if you intend to design a settings page for your product.
Check out this massive collection of Type Specimens. Bookmarked for some inspiration.
It’s amazing how much design goes into the making of such seemingly trivial objects like beverage cans. I don’t know about you but i could watch videos like these all day long.
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few.
(Shunryu Suzuki)
And that’s probably why design looks easy to an outsider, can be overwhelming at first and can actually get harder when you get better.
Some very interesting insights on the design process for an ongoing CodePen redesign by Sparkbox. I love how open they share pretty much everything from User Interviews to Sketches to Wireframe Prototypes.
A directory on all things typography.
A collection of design insights about perceived speed.
Nothing goes uncalculated and untested. Before I leave, Ive holds up the watch’s white outer box. Almost imperceptibly, the bottom begins to move, obeying the law of gravity that pulls it away from its other half. It is graceful, calming… and far from accidental. “We work out what we feel is the optimum time for it to drop and then we back off that and work on the tolerances, and even work on the friction of the materials we use. I mean, that’s fanaticism,” he says, with a little smile. If only more fanatics were like Jony Ive
Another article about Jony Ive and Apple’s design philosophy. Worth a read.
Accessibility is an important, yet way too often overlooked area. Accessibility Wins is a tumblr blog dedicated to showcase accessible user interfaces. Like it!