Victor Loux — bookmarks tagged “design”

But you’re missing the point of designing websites. And if you provide a Wikipedia redesign only to dismiss everything that made its success, and insert your own version of Dribbble’s latest trends, then you’re probably not worth hiring because you’re incapable of analyzing the core purpose of a project and tackling real-world problems.

50 shades of blk · broccolini/50shadesofblk

github.com/broccolini/50shadesofblk

Even when we refer to black, we will still think of many different hex refs other than #000000. There are innumerable versions of black, yet nomenclature for the color is inadequate. This library of black color palettes attempts to explore the many variations of black, taken from well-known design systems and inspired by fictional sources.

Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective @ Things Of Interest

qntm.org/gay

And then they hit "submit" and the information is filed away electronically in databases which simply keel over or belch integrity errors when presented with something so profound as a man and another man who love each other enough to want to file joint tax returns.

Designers are Boring

deardesignstudent.com/designers-are-boring-9eba8cdf4346

The problem with the tiresome categories I listed above is a matter of approach. They’re technical and process-oriented. They care for means, but rarely for ends. They demonstrate “how” thinking at the expense of “why”.

Driving Positive Change: A Conversation with Margaret Stewart – The U.S. Digital Service – Medium

medium.com/the-u-s-digital-service/driving-positive-change-a-conversation-with-margaret-stewart-c51644ec6f85

Liz Odar, U.S. Digital Service: How do you approach building products that are used by such a large number of people across the globe? Margaret Stewart: What’s important is that we don’t approach our…

Lottie

airbnb.design/lottie/

Easily add high-quality animation to any native app. Lottie is an iOS, Android, and React Native library that renders After Effects animations in real time, allowing apps to use animations as easily as they use static images.

rscss

rscss.io/

Why There Will Never Be Another RedHat: The Economics Of Open Source | TechCrunch

techcrunch.com/2014/02/13/please-dont-tell-me-you-want-to-be-the-next-red-hat/

Open source software powers the world’s technology. In the past decade, there has been an inexorable adoption of open source in most aspects of computing...