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“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it’s this veneer — that the designers are handed this box and told, ‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” · STEVE JOBS

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  • TypeParis Now26 🇫🇷 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    The Other Day · 10:00
  • New-to-me vocabulary: oneshotted , “a term that... Jason Kottke

    New-to-me vocabulary: oneshotted, “a term that means, roughly, to be destroyed and subsequently remade by a single experience”.…

    Yesterday · 18:57
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    • Cookie Queens
    • Interview with the guy behind the great Art But Make...
    • The Banality of the Video Podcast . “The sets,...
    • There’s No Earthly Way of Knowing Which Direction We Are Going…
    • Cucumbers used to be called “cowcumbers” ....
    • No reparations for Black Americans. No student loan...
    • On the heels of turning Orwell’s Animal Farm into a...
    • “Somewhere between ‘Let’s catch up...
    • The fake courtesy machine is a wooden hand-cranked...
    • Marcin Wichary on how to get more fun and utility from...
    • Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise . The Pudding...
    • “I have travelled all over the world in the last 30...
    • Watching an Art Conservator Restore a Damaged Painting
    • Marbles Squared is a puzzle game 30 years in the...
    • Ben Prunty has composed the soundtrack to a new game,...
    • Perhaps businesses are collecting too much data for...
    • Mike Monteiro on how to deal with your suddenly grown-up...
    • What’s Your Favorite Recipe?
    • I have always liked Steve Kerr, but I did not expect to...
    • Handy app: “Point your camera at anything (a dress,...
    • “In 2014, the Dutch scholar Hans Corneel de Roos...
    • Physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on who should read...
    • Quaker principles line up quite well with modern...
    • The Revolt Against the Girl Bosses…...
    • The Night Witches: The Female Nazi Hunters of WWII
    • 25 Books That Capture This American Moment . They...
    • Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains ....
    • On “rich guy has an opinion” journalism ,...
    • World History Timeline
    • New York’s Neue Galerie Will Merge With the Metropolitan...
    • The Neanderthal dentist: archaeologists found evidence...
    • Sarah Rose (who is blind): “Meta glasses are...
  • Big AI & Design Systems Course updates! Brad Frost

    Chapters 1 & 2 of our AI & Design Systems Course are live! Our course now has over 16 hours of videos, which includes course lessons, community jam sessions, and other demonstrations. TJ,…

    Yesterday · 08:23
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    • Grief in the AI Age
  • I think the latest Apple Keyboard was verschlimmbessert Marc Thiele

    In March 2021 I got my last keyboard. Since I don’t like the idea of dongles, I tend to get Apple’s original keyboard. I also quite like how it f…

    Yesterday · 02:38
  • Delaware Shore Rob Weychert

    Raghav Peri, 2018, ½ I’m known to enjoy a film made by clumsy amateurs reaching for something beyond their means, and this unfathomably earnest love letter to the beach towns of Delawa…

    Two Days Ago · 21:59
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    • Hard Boiled
  • A Great Design Gathering Josh Clark

    Leonardo De La Rocha describes his takeaways from Design Futures Assembly, a remarkable gathering of the tech industry’s top design leaders. It was a small-ish invite list, just 60 of us inclu…

    Two Days Ago · 15:06
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    • Kirkus on Sentient Design: “Get It”
    • Reimagining the Mouse Pointer for the AI Era
  • La Pedra Go Club in Barcelona Cassidy Williams

    I visited a decades-old Go club in Barcelona!…

    Three Days Ago · 18:00
  • Establishing a weekly user interview routine Jonnie Hallman

    For the first time in years, I start performing user interviews again, and remember how valuable they can be.…

    Three Days Ago · 12:26
  • The closing talks at UX London 2026 Jeremy Keith

    When I told you about the schedule for UX London 2026, I said: After your afternoon workshop there’ll be one final closing talk at the end of each day before we head to the bar. These closin…

    The Other Day · 08:59
  • Studio Notes #84 Dan Cederholm

    Greetings, Bon Vivants. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🖼️ The level of detail and intricate line work of these art pr…

    The Other Day · 06:00

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