Design links! Design snacks for you.
Links to guides, sites, and thoughts that I have been enamored with recently:
Why is making a dark mode greyscale so hard to get right?
A great thread around dark mode design from Dan Hollick
Calligrapher.ai
A really interesting use case for AI, generating handwritten text. This could get around the awkward experience with handwritten fonts reusing characters.
Visual design rules you can safely follow every time
A post stacked with foundational visual design practices
Teenage Skeuomorphic Desktop Designs
Some fun throw-backs
How to draw ideas
Four ways how to use drawing to get more ideas: Study, Explore, Develop, and Show.
“Most of our users are on Desktop”
How survivorship bias impacts our product development planning
The Four Horsemen of the Tech Recession
“it's so disorienting to see the insane number of tech layoffs recently and then to see today that the US added 517K jobs + pushed unemployment down to lowest level in 50 years...”
That’s it. Those are the links, have a great week all
-Kyle