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AddThe question is just as relevant and just as meaningful as the question whether submarines can swim.
In retrospect, this accident of history has been a disaster, since almost all the opinions pushed by the commercial propaganda were false, and, in addition, the propaganda has been so effective that for many those opinions have become dogmata that can no longer be challenged without committing heresy.
For students who think they need react. Maybe a bit complex.
This is an incredible resource: many (really, many) words that letter-professionals use explained in quite a few languages. Wow!
The author writes about junktime, which I think is an even higher step from kairos -> chronos -> junktime. Who was it again who said that Kairos is village life, Chronos is city life, controlled by the clock, and then Junktime might be online life, controlled by ever presence.
A simple, understandable and affordable font licence
validation and error messages
A few extra arguments against LLMs. Mostly a personal answer/rant to an earlier article, and mostly pointing out flaws in the argumentation. For instance, that something was bad 6 months ago doesn't mean it’s good now. The same argument was used 6 months ago by the same people. Comparing people to large organisations when it comes to copyright Anonymous examples The fact that something gets attention doesn’t mean it’s as good as stated: see apps, crypto, etc. The fact that CEOs want us to use it, same thing, and even worse, because CEOs etc
Not sure what the real source is, but work less.
A nice introduction to testing with voice over on a Mac.
Sound effects of clocks, free to use
Very useful, extensive guide. Many points apply to other fields of design as well.
Creating a tool to execute the idea means innovation. Compromising the idea to the tool leads to stagnation.
I should sit down one day with some colleagues and write a similar useful guide to bad web design.
Wow, an incredible "book" about how digital things work. Can’t wait to see more articles.
RIP sparkles emoji
I want to start using the temporal API for my clocks.
Interessant, over een uitgestorven vorm van het Nederlands.
Mooi artikel over tijd, over The Clock, over de expo in Breda, over verschillende soorten tijd.
When anyone can produce something that looks good, the question becomes not “Can you make this?” but “Can you tell if it’s any good?” Or: “Can you make it better?”
Brilliant research into making stepped gradients with CSS. Looking forward to an easier implementation, one day,
The missing article on font size on websites, while also taking the user’s preference seriously.
Fieldsets and what they do
Very interesting research into the effect of the common tools used in type design. Pretty much focused on type design, but should be translatable to web design as well.
Very interesting article about the work that went into creating Words of Type.
an independently researched and operated endeavor which primarily focuses on active, independent type designers and foundries.
Tips for enterprise UX. If we do this at CMD, this could be interesting