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How to sew on a button

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Marginalia Search

search.marginalia.nu/

Mechanic - turn your design rules into design tools

mechanic.design/

No-bullshit tenets for faster decision-making

rubick.com/tenets-for-faster-decisionmaking/

Gordian Schreiber @Managraphy on Twitter: "This calligraphic style is tightly connected to jōruri / bunraku theater and is usually found in the scripts for these plays. Never ceases to amaze me. It's interesting to observe different grades of squishiness

twitter.com/managraphy/status/1435116997013123079

Revolutionary type: Meet the designer decolonizing Chinese fonts - Rest of World

restofworld.org/2021/the-revolutionary-mission-to-decolonize-chinese-typefaces/

A Gentle Introduction to Graph Neural Networks

distill.pub/2021/gnn-intro/

BBC NEWS | UK | Cows also 'have regional accents'

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/5277090.stm

Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS

joshwcomeau.com/css/designing-shadows/
When I look around the web, most of the shadows I see are fuzzy grey boxes. It doesn't have to be this way, though! CSS gives us the tools to create rich, lush, lifelike shadows. In this tutorial, I'll show you how.

Write 5x more but write 5x less – Mike Crittenden

critter.blog/2020/10/02/write-5x-more-but-write-5x-less/

How to Nail Remote Onboarding and Influence People | Spotify Design

spotify.design/article/how-to-nail-remote-onboarding-and-influence-people

He Was the Manager of Windows on the World - The Atlantic

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/glenn-vogt-september-11/620030/

40 One-Sentence Email Tips

joshspector.com/one-sentence-email-tips/
What I've learned about writing and managing email.

By Design

megconley.com/by-design/
The history of kitchen design is full of feminist utopias founded on white supremacy.

danieldwilliam | On Five Fallacies I Have Encountered When Disccusing 100% Renewable Energy

danieldwilliam.dreamwidth.org/216421.html

RevK®'s ramblings: It's official, ADSL works over wet string

revk.uk/2017/12/its-official-adsl-works-over-wet-string.html

Forgetting My First Language | The New Yorker

newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/forgetting-my-first-language
When I speak Cantonese with my parents now, I rely on translation apps.

Table of Contents | The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web

webtypography.net/toc/

Jade Rubick - How to build silos and decrease collaboration (on purpose)

rubick.com/how-to-build-silos-and-decrease-collaboration/

Thinking with your hands – Scott Jenson

jenson.org/hands/
Thinking with your hands is about ignoring your gut, at least at first. It’s about pausing and unpacking your initial instincts. We all know UX requires research and exploratory prototyping: we pride ourselves on never accepting a problem at face value. Why can’t we apply our craft to ourselves? (OK, this is a little meta, hang in there) Isn’t it odd that it rarely occurs to designers that our precious UX process could apply to US?