Issue #8 — August 7, 2019. So, generally speaking… — Defining Design Generalists — Exploring the skill set of an underrated superpower. 💪 The internet seems to suffer from a lack of imagination, so Boris Müller asked his students to redesign it. 🧠 Redesigning the New York Times app — a UX case study. 📰 The Layer-Cake Pattern of Scanning Content on the Web. 🍰 Forget the computer — here’s why you should write and design by hand. 🖋

Issue #7 — August 2, 2019. Once upon a time in… Hollywood… — Meet the Canon Cat, the forgotten 1987 alternate-reality Mac 🍏 The designer’s guide to Netflix: 12 must-watch shows and movies 👀 The font-making pioneer Monotype’s next paragraph starts with an $825m acquisition 🖋 This book guides readers through best practices around planning, designing, building, and implementing a design system, with insights and first-hand experiences from experts who have gone through the journey 📖

Issue #6 — July 26, 2019. Let’s go into the woods! — If you want to put down your phone and focus, you can plant a seed in Forest. As time goes by, this seed will gradually grow into a tree. However, if you’ll use your phone and leave the app, your tree will wither. 🌿 How clients describe their problems vs. what they actually mean. 🤔 Replacing The User Story With The Job Story. 🖋 UX task flows vs. user flows, as demonstrated by pancakes. 🥞

Here’s what we hype about at RIOT design-wise this week. — The biggest news in tech last week was that Apple’s superstar designer Jony Ive was leaving the company to start his own design firm. 🍏 How to extend Atomic design. ⚛︎ Airbnb Adventures are hosted by thoughtful experts with deep ties to their local communities. ✈️ Seriously, you need to start documenting your UX work. ✏️ See 10 portraits Dimitar Karanikolov’s made during his travels around the world. 📸

Here’s what we hype about at RIOT design-wise this week. — User Experience vs. Customer Experience: What’s The Difference? The discipline of writing a long-form design brief might make you a better designer. A Beginner’s Guide To User Journey Mapping. The idea that design sprints are only for small teams is a common fallacy. Actually though, Google pioneered the process, and they’re not exactly a startup!

Here’s what we hype about at RIOT design-wise this week. — Design team at Upwork has fine-tuned a few practices to help consistently produce engaging designs that meet the company’s business goals and the goals of their users. Here’s how they do it. 🎯 How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day. 💲 The CEOs of Basecamp, Flexjobs, InVision, and Dribbble share the ultimate work-life hacks. 🏠

Here’s what we hype about at RIOT design-wise this week. — Designer Fund raises $23.5M Fund II to fix the design gap in tech. 💰 Nike has its own design system. 🎨 An exclusive look behind the curtain at IDEO, the global design firm, who for 40 years (and counting) has changed the way we think about design. 📹 UsabilityHub is a remote user research platform that takes the guesswork out of design decisions by validating them with real users. 🤔

Ten reasons why X will be the best iPhone Apple has ever made. — The annual Apple Special Event was held on 12 September 2017. iPhone X was the unquestioned star of the evening. From the moment of its premiere, the Internet, and particularly its designer part has been feeling the hype — everything because of Apple’s design-related decision that is not understood by all. Does this mean that the decision was not a good one?