Newsletter 140 📚

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🎧 April Playlist (Spotify)

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📌 The links

1. Designer Daily Report

2. The State of UX in 2023

3. In Conversation: Akiko Stehrenberger

4. Catching up with Erik Spiekermann

5. Design Takes Time

6. Untools – Tools for better thinking

7. BALANCE #572 - Hosted by Spacewalker

8. Don't specialize, hybridize

9. Blog – Department of Product

10. Copywriting Examples

11. Blank VHS Cassette Packaging Design Trends: A Lost Art

12. Design Systems: Useful Examples and Resources

13. LogoScale - A Method for Vectorizing Small, Crappy Logos

14. ☼ POOLSUITE PRESENTS #14 ☼ An hour of summer with Franc Moody

15. Crystal clear: our branding predictions for 2023

16. Javier Errea Interview

17. From Renaissance to Gemini Rights: the stories behind 2022's best album covers

18. Radio Garden

19. Localfonts

20. Design Events Guide

21. Top 10 Title Sequences of 2022

22. Back of House: Why is the business side of design always hidden?

23. Tim Tijink

24. Why some teams boost motivation while others totally sap it

25. Fundación IDA

26. Best Font for Online Reading: No Single Answer

27. LCH is the best color space!

28. Don’t hire designers too late

29. Whiteboard for online collaboration

30. Asteroid Launcher

31. Bookalism – A collection of books for graphic designers (and alike)

32. Pillars of Digital Product Design

33. The Case For Better Watch Typography

34. Slow Focus – Infinite Mixtapes

35. Curating your crib

36. Good Design is Intentional

37. Rewind – AI generated notes of your entire day

38. The End of Organizing

39. Creativity, According to Rick Rubin

40. ☼ POOLSUITE PRESENTS #15 ☼ An hour of summer with Tiger & Woods

41. The Mystery of the Dune Font

42. Hype Type Studio

43. Their Sounds Were Watching God

44. Layout. A weekly podcast about design, technology, programming and everything else

45. The Book Cover Review

46. Letras recuperadas

47. Logggos. Explore well-designed logos

48. Visual design rules you can safely follow every time

49. Neurodiversity Design System

50. The Power and Ethical Dilemma of AI Image Generation Models

51. Mastering Midjourney in 2023 | The Ultimate Guide

52. KEV BEADLE MIND FLUID 15-01-23

53. Darkmode

54. Modern Illustration – An archive of illustration from c.1950-1975, shining a spotlight on pioneering illustrators and their work

55. Creativity as a system

56. Regeneration: Black Cinema

57. Latex, severed legs and fake erections: why is a whole new generation obsessed with DVD menus?

58. Obsidian Canvas

59. Advanced techniques for writing good interfaces

60. Atlas Icons

61. Okuda Hiroko: The Casio Employee Behind the “Sleng Teng” Riddim that Revolutionized Reggae

62. Type Design Resources

63. Rihanna’s Super Bowl halftime show: behind the scenes of the stage design

64. Moving from execution to strategy as a designer

65. De La Soul 'Buhloone Mindstate' 25th Anniversary Mixtape mixed by Chris Read

66. Dataviz Inspiration

67. Minimalism is boring

68. The State Of Usability In 2023

69. The Digital Library for Designers and Engineers

70. Customer-Centric Value Creation with a Jobs-To-Be-Done Mindset

71. Nizar Kazan + Co

72. Genius by Diagram

73. Introducing the ‘Polish School of Posters’

74. Guides – Dive into the intersection of design and business with in-depth essays and tools

75. Archiv der besten Plakate

76. Poline – An enigmatic color palette generator, that harnesses the mystical witchcraft of polar coordinates

77. The End Of Design As We Know It? How Automation And A.I. Is Changing The Face Of Design Forever

78. The documented collection of UI components

79. The future of design systems is complicated

80. Design Psychology: 4 Principles that Empower Designers – Part 1

81. Web design inspiration catalog

82. No-Code Supply Co

83. Bento

84. How we built our multi-platform design system at Booking.com

85. The Anatomy of a Good Design: An Analysis of 4 Sites

86. Design Principles

87. The design process is a lie

88. Design-by-wire

89. Meeting at the Middle Between AI and Creativity

90. #HIPHOP50: Classic Material Edition #1 Part 1 (1979-1983) mixed by Chris Read

91. Good Times

92. Standard Projects

93. Lindsay Noll Archive

94. Ways to use AI in product design today

95. MIMS Guest Mix: New Regency Orchestra (TRC + ¡COMO NO! / London, UK)

96. The Problem with Web Design Trends: Why Following Them Blindly Can Hurt Your Business

97. Is the minimalist logo trend destroying brands?

98. Modern iOS Navigation Patterns

99. 2023 Design in Tech Report: Design and Artificial Intelligence

100. The Faces Behind Typefaces

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