When and how UI and UX should actually lie.

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A guide to multi-DPI and platform design

Sharing and showcasing marketing, branding, design & advertising in libraries. Library logos, web redesigns, posters, flyers, rebranding, and more.

Kara Walker,  The Emancipation Approximation (Scene 18)   This guest post was written by Porchia Moore, a third year doctoral candidate in...

Whether you’re a novice or an expert in any medium, good decisions take practice — and great ones stand on a solid foundation. Typekit Practice is a collection of resources and a place to try things, hone your skills, and stay sharp.

It sounds like the start of one of those jokes that rely on professional stereotypes, doesn't it? But, I was actually hired by Cambridge University Library to establish a design practice and run an innovation programme within the Library. I had stepped (mostly deliberately) into a complex context where the traditional models of publishing, education and librarianship are being disrupted.  In this talk, I share some of the human-centred design techniques we have been employing in Cambridge University Libraries to involve library users and librarians in collaborative innovation. These include design research, sketch hacks, design jams and innovation labs.  I also reflect on the successes and the lessons I have learned from bringing design practice and applying design thinking in a library context.  Originally presented at i2c2 in Manchester on Thursday, 7 March 2014.

For the past 50 years Helvetica has dominated design. But, asks Steve Rose, now its pioneer Mike Parker has passed away, is the era of this sleek, modernist typeface drawing to a close?

Good on the process/workflow of extending usability into all interactions, physical AND virtual.

As the Web has evolved over the years, we have established a (fairly) standard set of icons — a _trash can_ or a _cross_ has come to represent deleting or removing something; an _envelope_ has become the indicator for a message or mail. These are little visual cues to help people along their way. Some icons have established such strong associations that they can exist on their own without supporting text, meaning, they can remove language barriers to form their own universal language. **We need to use the right icons to communicate the right things**.

2001: A Space Odyssey – Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 sci-fi masterpiece – seems an appropriate place to start a blog about typography in sci-fi. Amongst other delights, it offers a zero-gravity toi…

An understanding of typographic etiquette separates the master designers from the novices. A well-trained designer can tell within moments of viewing a design whether its creator knows how to work with typography. Typographic details aren’t just inside jokes among designers.

The right font choice along with the absence of sidebars and popups makes everything feel easier and better to read. It can also make you feel good!

Great design -- until they announce Yochai Benkler. TYPOGRAPHY PEOPLE DO YOU SPEAK IT.

In its second year, XOXO is a legitimate replacement for SXSW. Full of bleeding-edge makers of things, XOXO has a fascination with fuchsia and a great badge.    I can write this because over the years, I’ve developed a strong opinion regarding badges.    A Badge Connects You to the People  The follo

Human-centered design in mission-driven organizations