Runners.
An evening walk, lots of crunchy leaves and some ghosts.
Saying goodbye to summer:
And hello to Fall (and spooky season):
[Shot by Ned is a painting by Peter Brown] (https://www.mallgalleries.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/conversations-prize/shot-ned)
Don’t draw the UI, draw the priority instead meaning you should " … write a humble list of priorities for every project: most important info at the top -> least important info at the bottom. So instead of trying to figure out the order of the information in a component—like a card or a table or what have you, we should use this content audit to help define the visual priority of each bit."
A first person video of walking in a heavy thunderstorm at night in NYC is much more intersting than it sounds.
/via chris glass
Landsburg continued to photograph the eruption until the last possible moment, leaving himself enough time to wind up his film into its case, place his camera in its bag, place that bag into his backpack, and lay his body on top of the bag as the final protective layer against the shower of magma and ash. (source)
/via tecznts
Now, instead of finished plans, designers must create possibilities for others to design and make; designers must build flexible platforms, defined by patterns and rules for interaction and rules for changing the rules. Instead of making decisions about what and how, designers facilitate conversations about why and who.
About Feeds hopes to ‘…become the default “Help! What is this?” link next to every web feed icon on the web.’
The Architecture of Information “collects examples of intriguing information structures from the web and beyond.” Always into anything Jorge Arango does.
What the recommended videos look like on other people’s YouTube home pages.
Related to the above, Rabbit Hole is a podcast about what the internet doing to us.
The origin of the Success Kid photo.
A primer on affordances in digital work.
A set of tiny icons for use in your next project.
Concept artist Ismail Inceoglu creates intricate sci-fi and fantasy scenes.
Just a polar bear floating in a lagoon.
After listening to Stay Down, Man it sounds like Dan Reeder and I have had similar friends in our past.
Shadrach Radio on Spotify. A crunchy mix of 90s music (Ween, Beasties, Primus …) if that’s your thing, enjoy.
Almost everything Caity Weaver looked up on Google or Wikipedia in a week the fun parts are in the footnotes.
Sounds made by humans for your app or whatever. Pops, ticks, nudges, and more.
Typehut another super simple blog “… or newsletter, changelog, press page, devlog, announcements, events or anything else you can imagine.”
Doomscrolling Is Slowly Eroding Your Mental Health “Each swipe through the timeline marks the end of a day of reckoning—for the state of the world at large and for the person attached to each appendage doing the scrolling.”
Analog is “a physical (paper + wood) companion for your digital tools that helps you prioritize and focus on your most important tasks.”
