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Articles
Design for AI: What should people who design AI know?
Designing for AI means designing for a human-machine relationship that is in flux.
Design thinking was supposed to fix the world. Where did it go wrong?
An approach that promised to democratize design may have done the opposite.
Bank payments: slow and shallow experiences
Deconstructing the notion that these banks have feature parity in 2023.
How Pinterest’s design systems team measures adoption
As a design systems team, Pinterest wanted to maximize the usage of and increase component adoption.
Sponsor
Introducing Penpot: the design tool that welcomes developers to the design process
The first open-source design & prototyping tool, Penpot, allows true collaboration between designers and developers, with unique features like Flex Layout with CSS standards. Penpot works with open standards (SVG), avoiding vendor lock-in and giving product teams absolute freedom in their designs.
Tools and Resources
Atlas Icons
Open source free icons library, available in various formats.
Shift Happens: A book about keyboards by Marcin Wichary
The history of keyboards – from early typewriters to modern mechanical marvels – told in two beautiful volumes.
UX Portfolio
Pooja Jadav
Pooja is a Brand Designer at Stark.
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Last But Not Least
Design Psychology: 4 Principles That Empower Designers
Design Psychology is the use of psychological behaviour in humans to create and design more accurately
“Be purposeful and thoughtful in the choices you make when the options are nearly infinite.”
— Michael Bierut
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