Avoid the nightmare bicycle

> Good designs expose systematic structure; they lean on their users’ ability to understand this structure and apply it to new situations. We were born for this. > Bad designs paper over the structure with superficial labels that hide the underlying system, inhibiting their users’ ability to actually build a clear model in their heads.

permacomputing

ELEGNT: Expressive and Functional Movement Design for Non-Anthropomorphic Robot

The hardest working font in Manhattan

dasprogramm shop: Braun design

Seasoned - The brand creation kitchen

Digital Gardening | Chris Armstrong is miscellanious.

Dropbox Brand Guidelines

Codingfont

Poline — Esoteric Color Palette Generation Library

Naming your brand, from start to finish

Airport Typeface

urban design resources

MAX SIEDENTOPF

Where have all the websites gone?

Quit Your Job

“You have to let your life go fallow sometimes, like a crop rotation giving the land time to bring forth new fertility.”

A peasant woodland | A Working Library

Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power since 1500

Design ain’t a democracy

Google - The Web Can Do What!?

Globe Explorer

A better way to index and digest information?

A history of moquette | London Transport Museum

Invisible Details of Interaction Design

A nice write-up on interaction/motion design thinking.

A Deep Dive Into SVG Path Commands

An interactive guide to understanding SVG paths and path commands.

Ambient Co-presence

What if our experiences on the web were akin to those in physical public spaces?

The Social Life of Forests

“Such reciprocity does not necessitate universal harmony, but it does undermine the dogma of individualism and temper the view of competition as the primary engine of evolution.”

Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

I’m less interested in the content and more in the presentation. How could we have this sort of experience on a Kobo?

Climate change: Mapping in 3D where the earth will become uninhabitable

An even better piece of visual, data, storytelling.