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Austin Crockett

Austin Crockett

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From Designing a New Look for Instagram, Inspired by the Community by Ian

…d to figure out how to give the new mark more character while also removing what was unnecessary.

The question then became, how far do we go? If you abstract too much, the glyph doesn’t feel tied to the history and soul of Instagram. If you make it too literal, it’s hard to justify changing from what we currently have.

After a lot of refinement, we landed on a glyph that still suggests a camera, but also sets the g…

From Emotional Machines by Daniel Eckler

…oment in our day when our mood has peaked, or when we have some down time, to ask how our meal was. Being in tune with our emotions is not only pleasant, it encourages user activity, which feeds more data into our devices, creating an ever-evolving loop of efficiency: something that we might even refer to as a “relationship.”

From Emotional Machines by Daniel Eckler

The ideal device is one that is context-aware — one that is able to recognize a social situation and adjust accordingly. Think of a quarterback that is able to step to the line of scrimmage, read a defense, and call an audible based on a split second read.

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How I went from underemployed waitress to the top 1% of millennials in 6 months

Lauren Holliday

How I built a Newsletter Without Having a Newsletter

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How To Be More Organized While Designing UI

Marek Minor