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3 votes
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The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same
23 votes -
Hive cities: Reality or fiction?
7 votes -
Sculptor sues Swedish glassmaker Kosta Boda for €1m in test of EU ‘bestseller clause’ – landmark case may open door to retrospective claims across bloc
6 votes -
Exploring Art Deco architecture's evolution from its 1920s roots to its modern resurgence in Art Deco 2.0
5 votes -
The future of the office is cozy
20 votes -
The history of emoticons
3 votes -
At the Icelandic home of Katrín Þorvaldsdóttir, foraged material like seaweed is turned into masks, clothing and even shoes
8 votes -
Public archive of over 600 type specimens from Germany
21 votes -
Highly inappropriate book covers
20 votes -
What wipes in Star Wars teach us about the brain and also interface design
27 votes -
What we learned making a plastic injection mold with a Chinese mold maker
21 votes -
Designing content for people who struggle with numbers
21 votes -
Wikipedia:Dark mode
20 votes -
Sophie de Oliveira Barata on The Alternative Limb Project and the nexus of art and medicine
3 votes -
As a young industrial designer, Patricia Moore undertook a radical experiment in aging. Her discoveries reshaped the built world.
26 votes -
Concrete stamp from Swiss Post
11 votes -
“The Famous F40” vector illustration by David Rumfelt
9 votes -
How one company owns color
18 votes -
To build a more lethal force, the Marine Corps needs a font for the 21st century
14 votes -
At the Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center in West Yellowstone, Montana, you can get a product certified as bear-resistant... by testing it with actual bears
21 votes -
‘They found ways to do the impossible’: Hipgnosis, the designers who changed the record sleeve for ever
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Escher Lizard flooring project
I like a bit of M.C. Escher art, and I was looking for some Escher images when I stumbled across this old blog post by someone who designed and made his own Escher-inspired floor tiles....
I like a bit of M.C. Escher art, and I was looking for some Escher images when I stumbled across this old blog post by someone who designed and made his own Escher-inspired floor tiles. Fascinating stuff!
Here's the main page, showing a photo of the finished floor: https://danceswithferrets.org/geekblog/?page_id=911
Then there's 8 blog entries, showing the steps he went through from initial idea to finished product.
As a bonus, here's a simple guide I found, which explains how Escher designed & made his tiles: http://static1.squarespace.com/static/5754f47fcf80a16bffa02c45/t/57c6b680f7e0abc8f6ac6993/1472640669212/Escher-tiling-instructions.pdf
It's so simple when you know how! But there's obviously still some artistry involved in deciding what shapes to cut & paste.
9 votes -
Every flashing element on your site alienates and enrages users
43 votes -
Design for the web without Figma
7 votes -
Will AI really make graphic designers obsolete?
15 votes -
How are you reacting to the current climate in the product design and UX space?
I have been a product designer and experience architect since before “UX” even meant anything. I’ve never wanted for work, and I’ve always been confident in my skills as a leader both on the...
I have been a product designer and experience architect since before “UX” even meant anything.
I’ve never wanted for work, and I’ve always been confident in my skills as a leader both on the product and business strategy side.
But especially recently, I’ve started to feel some tremors I’ve never felt before:
- A massive amount of young talent has flooded the industry via UX programs and boot camps - and much of them are quite talented!
- Layoffs have further upped the available workers
- AI and Automation have made good designers even more efficient, and even inexperienced designers can now move at the speed of light.
I also have some personal situations at play:
- I took the last few years to launch and grow my own product business - scaling that eventually to an exit. So I’ve been out of the “product designer” game a bit - as I’ve been immersed in everything that comes with being a founder and startup growth.
- I now have a family - I can’t grind as hard as I used to.
All this gives me some qualms about the ability to find work in the future.
With an industry now flooded in talent, and AI that commodifies and democratizes UI design - making it easier than ever to spit out good design - is there job security for product designers the next few years?
What does that look like? How will pay be affected? Where will the opportunity be?
14 votes -
Is it time to do away with “good taste?”
8 votes -
Typography 2024: For America! For America’s best
7 votes -
Why is everything so ugly? The mid in fake midcentury modern
26 votes -
What our utensils say about our culture
7 votes -
Gallery of physical visualizations
5 votes -
The icon sets proposed in the icon contest
8 votes -
Design notes on the 2023 Wikipedia redesign
9 votes -
The Museum of Failure’s latest exhibition is an epic portrait of failures big and small—from the Ford Edsel, to CNN+
4 votes -
Adam Savage's advice for pricing freelance work
6 votes -
Infrastructure that looks like science fiction (photos)
21 votes -
The UGHZ Principle
6 votes -
The age of average
8 votes -
A gallery of Sony product design going back decades
5 votes -
The olympic pictograms are miniature design masterpieces
9 votes -
How the inventor of the troll doll missed out on a fortune
5 votes -
Wikipedia has spent years on a barely noticeable redesign
18 votes -
Arne Aksel: ‘Denmark had become this decorative no-go land. We've been in a white or gray or beige box for what – 20, 25 years? I think people have had enough.’
5 votes -
Inside one of Japan's tiniest houses
6 votes -
Design collective Andra Formen has created furniture from electric scooters fished out of the canals of Malmö
4 votes -
King Charles III's new cypher is a design classic
14 votes -
Making of mathematical instruments - transforming a public domain book into a website
14 votes -
On writing better error messages
6 votes -
How mushrooms are turned into bacon and styrofoam | World Wide Waste
10 votes