Newsletter 96
Hola.
Thank you very much to all of you who asked about me after sending the last newsletter. Many times I have the feeling that no one reads this personal introduction.
I would like to say that I am better. I am physically but there are still several issues to solve the next months.
It's going to be a strange summer, with no planned vacations, but there will be time later when everything goes better, nothing happens.
The truth is that I'm not a big fan of going to the beach, especially with these high temperatures, I get too bored and overwhelmed. The mixture of sweat and sand and wet clothes all day is not my perfect summer plan. So the idea of enjoying the air conditioning at home, reading, and emptying the lists of movies and series that I have pending does not sound like a bad alternative.
And of course, I have to follow the tradition now that the heat is intense: see the movie "Do the right thing" by Spike Lee, my summer movie.
Drink a lot of water.
— W.
The links
The Ever-changing Art of the Screensaver
Once central to our digital experiences, screensavers now hold a powerful place in our nostalgia for early computing.The Washington Post Design System (WPDS)
WPDS enables designers and developers at the Post to ship reader-facing digital products that are modular, elegant and accessible while maintaining visual consistency at scale.The forgotten benefits of “low tech” user interfaces
Seemingly outmoded technologies sometimes hold the key to better user experiences.Berlin’s typographic legacy
In 2021, four Berlin institutions collaborated to digitize a large part of their printed type specimen collections and make the images freely available online.Learn the logic of great typography
In this 5-minute tutorial, you’ll learn:Best practices for styling text.
How to pick great fonts.
Typographical design patterns you can apply to your own designs.
How to plot a rebrand
Rebranding could involve changing your logo, tone of voice, website design or even your business name. It's a marketing move as well as a sound business strategy – but the stakes are high when you're changing the very DNA of your business.How to share research in design systems
The needs we discovered in our meta-research: user research with designers and developers about how they use the research that supports a design system - and what they need from it.Finance for Designers
(and Engineers, PMs, and other product-building people).Can a corporation "own" a color?
A handful of companies have pushed the boundaries of intellectual property law by laying claim to individual colors.2022 Logo Trend Report
The 20th Annual Logo Trend Report presented by LogoLounge is full of all the good, the badass, and the ugly.Diagrams
diagrams.net/draw.io is an open-source technology stack for building diagramming applications, and the world’s most widely used browser-based end-user diagramming software.Heavy vinyl records collector Dr. Kruger digs deep every other Sunday to bring soulful, funky and odd tunes from his crates straight to your home. Sometimes joined by a fellow crate digger/DJ of his choice, just tune in and let the doctor treat you.
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