Paul Rand: Modernist Master 1914-1996
A lovely fansite dedicated to the life and work of Paul Rand.
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Why we need CSS Speech - Tink - Léonie Watson
I was talking about this with Léonie just yesterday. I, for one, would love to have CSS speech support. You know who else would love it? Content designers!
In these days of voice interaction on every platform, there is a growing expectation that it should be possible to design that experience just like we can the visual experience. In the same way an organisation chooses a logo and colour palette for its website, it stands to reason that they may also choose a particular voice that represents their brand.
It’s wild that there’s no way to do this on the web.
The Customer Onboarding Handbook [PDF]
A free PDF with five articles:
- The Brand Experience Gap by Emma Parnell
- Ongoing Onboarding: Taking Customers from First Use to Product Mastery by Chris How
- Just Add ICE: 3 Ways to Make Your Customer Experience More Meaningful by Candi Williams
- Effectively Researching and Using Customer Journey Maps by Lauren Isaacson
- Using and Abusing Surveys in Customer Onboarding by Caroline Jarrett
Three of those authors spoke at this year’s UX London!
Pixelhop new website walk through
A case study with equal emphasis on animation and performance.
So your grandmother is a starship now: a quick guide for the bewildered
Useful FAQs.
Your grandmother is not just a starship, she’s a highly individual starship with her own goals and needs!
So Many Food Trucks!
Puntastic!
90s Festival Generator
I spent far too long hitting refresh and then clicking on the names of some of the Irish bands down near the bottom of the line-up.
Works offline
How do we tell our visitors our sites work offline? How do we tell our visitors that they don’t need an app because it’s no more capable than the URL they’re on right now?
Remy expands on his call for ideas on branding websites that work offline with a universal symbol, along the lines of what we had with RSS.
What I’d personally like to see as an outcome: some simple iconography that I can use on my own site and other projects that can offer ambient badging to reassure my visitor that the URL they’re visiting will work offline.
Round 1: post your ideas / designs · Issue #1 · works-offline/logo
This is an interesting push by Remy to try to figure out a way we can collectively indicate to users that a site works offline.
Well, seeing as browsers have completely dropped the ball on any kind of ambient badging, it’s fair enough that we take matters into our own hands.
We Are As Gods
A forthcoming documentary about Stewart Brand (with music by Brian Eno).
Principles and priorities | Hacker News
I see that someone dropped one of my grenades into the toilet bowl of Hacker News.
The Worm is Back! | NASA
The return of NASA’s iconic “worm” logo (for some missions).
The Guardian digital design style guide
What a lovely way to walk through the design system underpinning the Guardian website.
Bonus points for using the term “tweak points”!
Exploring the Frontiers of Visual Identity… | Speculative Identities
Brand identity in sci-fi films, like Alien, Total Recall, Robocop, and Back To The Future.
This makes for a nice companion site to Sci-fi Interfaces.
Take Back Your Web - Tantek Çelik on Vimeo
Tantek’s barnstorming closing talk from Beyond Tellerrand. This is well worth 30 minutes of your time.
Own your domain. Own your content. Own your social connections. Own your reading experience. IndieWeb services, tools, and standards enable you to take back your web.
Eintrag “Take back your web – Tantek Çelik @ Beyond Tellerrand Conference, Düsseldorf 2019” beim Webrocker
Tom shares his thoughts on Tantek’s excellent closing talk at Beyond Tellerrand this week:
Yes, the message of this rather sombre closing talk of this year’s Beyond Tellerrand Conference Düsseldorf is important. Watch it. And then go out, take care of yourself and others, away from the screen. And then come back and publish your own stuff on your own site. Still not convinced? ok, then, please read Matthias Ott’s great article (published on his own site btw), and then start using your own site.
Brand New Roman
A font made of corporate logos.
Evolving the Firefox Brand - Mozilla Open Design
I’m impressed by Mozilla’s commitment to designing in the open—one of the hardest parts of any kind of brand work is getting agreement, and this process must make that even more difficult.
I have to say, I quite like both options on display here.
Ampersand 2018 | Rob Weychert
Rob attended the excellent Ampersand event last Friday and he’s made notes for each and every talk.
10 Progressive Web App Examples that Brand Owners can Learn From - Iflexion
Adriana Blum lists progressive web apps that are doing very, very well from Twitter, Trivago, Starbucks, Forbes, Debebhams, West Elm, Washington Post, Pinterest, AliExpress, and Lancôme.
Instead of choosing between the immediacy of a mobile website and the rich experience offered by native apps, you can now offer your target audiences the best of both and improve the commercial performance of your business to boot.