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Designing for complexity: start with these questions

As designers, part of our job is to deeply understand complex systems and concepts — so that we can solve problems in that specific problem space. In this article, I explain a simple analogy you can use when you start a new complex project or encounter a new domain or system.

The weird future of buttons

We’re asking what it means that Apple have begun to add back buttons to their famously buttonless devices. And examining a strange magnetic button that Jony Ive has designed for Moncler. Did you know the French word for button —bouton—also means ‘flower bud’? Now you do 🌹

Terminal colours are tricky

Yesterday I was thinking about how long it took me to get a colorscheme in my terminal that I was mostly happy with (SO MANY YEARS), and it made me wonder what about terminal colours made it so hard.

Designing the Future: Tegon’s Unique AI-Driven Issue Tracker

Tegon, the open source, AI-first issue tracker for engineering teams, faced the challenge of changing its UI and UX to set the product apart from other issue trackers. Evil Martians took charge of this transformation, successfully redesigning the core experience and bringing forward new ideas for AI-first features to take the issue tracker UX above and beyond. Our contributions helped Tegon launch version 2.0 in just 2.5 months, with well-received…

10 highly requested features for Illustrator and InDesign to boost your productivity

Our global community has always been instrumental in helping us build our professional design tools. After all, your feedback helps us shape the ongoing innovation in both Illustrator and InDesign, by either bringing in new features or improving existing ones to optimize creative workflows, expressiveness, power and precision so you have more time to focus on the work you love.

Design System Tips from Developer’s Point of View

If you know how to ride a bike now and wait five years to ride one again, you’ll likely do just fine once you get back on. Bicycles are intuitive once you’ve learned how to ride them, and the basic design is unlikely to change over time and across bicycles. Reaching this level of usability in software is a little more difficult.

How A Bottom-Up Design Approach Enhances Site Accessibility

You can’t overstate the importance of accessible website design. By the same token, bottom-up philosophies are crucial in modern site-building. A detail-oriented approach makes it easier to serve a more diverse audience along several fronts. Making the most of this opportunity will both extend your reach to new niches and make the web a more equitable place.

Interview With Björn Ottosson, Creator Of The Oklab Color Space

Go behind the scenes with Björn Ottosson, the Swedish engineer who created Oklab color space, and discover how he developed a simple yet effective model with good hue uniformity while also handling lightness and saturation well — and is “okay” to use

Design system primitives

Hey everyone 👋, this week I dive into design system primitive components. They are extremely beneficial to help adopters of your system rapidly iterate experiences using design tokens. Excited to chat about this topic and would love to hear what you all think of it.

Why Every Creative Needs a Mentor

Whether you’re a freelance designer, illustrator, or an aspiring art director, navigating your career alone can be daunting. A mentor provides guidance, support, and insights that can help accelerate both your professional and personal growth.

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