This UX designer learned the hard way, but you don’t have to.

As someone who has seen firsthand how a poorly maintained typography system can lead to disaster, we can attest to the importance of keeping it in order from the very beginning of a project. You never know how big a project will become in the future, so it’s crucial to consider scalability when designing elements.

A lush and joyful design with visuals that will leave you with a warm feeling in your belly! Our pick this week.

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The State Department has used Times New Roman for its official communications since 2004. Now it’s switching to the sans-serif Calibri in an effort to improve accessibility.

Our VP of engineering recently asked me how we could level up the design skills of our engineers. It made me think about the question “how do great designers become great?”

Google released a bunch of new logos and icons for its various Workspace apps in 2020 – to a chorus of disapproval. Users continue to complain about these bafflingly similar designs – but a series of fan-made icon concepts seems to be gaining applause on Twitter.

If you need a trouble-free method to understand what the design industry is up to, look at the typography trends. Fonts are like friends, they never lie.

After Mark Zuckerberg announced expansion plans in summer 2022 for Meta’s virtual reality platform, Horizon Worlds, critics took to social media. They compared the platform’s graphics to those of Second Life, an early 2000s life simulation game: The avatars were legless. The Eiffel Tower sat at the base of a bubbly, pixelated hillside. There was no way the design would be accepted by gamers who had seen what was possible…

If you are a reader of Wikipedia on desktop, you might have noticed something new over the past couple of days. The website looks a bit different — it’s simpler; less cluttered; and, hopefully, easier to use. After three years of development, the Wikimedia Foundation has finally released the updated desktop interface for Wikipedia. The new look went live today on English Wikipedia, during the month of its 22nd birthday,…