a heavy-handed, but good piece about notifications as a design pattern

Much of good survey design is getting a decent model of the mind and incentives of your audience. Egos are predictable. You have to tease it out like taffy, and if the ego is sticking to your results too hard you have to find other questions to trap them.

The Scottish Register of Tartans is an online database of tartan designs, established by the Scottish Register of Tartans Act 2008 and administered by the National Records of Scotland.

alternative interfaces for creating and editing images and text

blog post about monospace fonts and using them for web design

For the last 10 years I have been able to draw around 3,169 stations from different European cities, motivated by the curiosity of understanding how engineers were able to fit underground stations comprising 4 or 5 lines under Place de la République in Paris or the Puerta del Sol in Madrid.

A rather unusual (and beautiful) color palette editor/selector.

via: https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/refinement-without-specification/

At some point in the 20th century, we filled out the last few basis vectors of humanity. We explored the whole game map. This is what it means to live at the end of history: every aesthetic movement, political and economic system you can imagine can be understood as a linear combination of things that have come before. Asking for a new aesthetics is like asking for a new continent, one north of 90° and with imaginary longitude.

Formats over apps.

Holy shit, have I been sleeping on the AT Protocol. This shit is interesting as hell!

Very interesting browser prototype.

Heart was founded in 1994 by Darrel Rees, a practicing illustrator. The agency was conceived while Darrel was part of the studio collective Big Orange,…