Design Industry Right Now: 7 Hot Design Articles
#1 — A cartoonish identity for the “Tinder for golf” swings away from the sport’s stuffy persona
A great case study by Wildish & Co agency that invited David Roberts to help the team make incredible branding for Goolf — an app searching for partners to play Goolf. The article is about an animation experiment which can be called an attempt of breaking free from the stuffy cuffs of a common technical startups vibe.
#2 — Democratize User Research in 5 Steps
The article inspects the features of a “democratization research”, the author also finds out why it is good and how to conduct it yourself.
The procedure takes 5 steps:
1) identifying the research demand,
2) classifying the skills of available people who do the research,
3) doing a gap analysis and matching the supply with the demand and filling the gaps in,
4) sharing and agreeing with team members and stakeholders about who will do which research, and
5) assessing how the process finished and coming up with ideas for improving.
All the above points are described in the article in more details and as a result you will find what a thorough user research consists of.
#3 — Open-Source 3dicons Library: Case Study And Free Downloads
A free set of lovely 3d icons introduced by the design wizard Vijay Verma impresses with even more incredible case studies. In the article he shares his experience by describing the entire study of creating icons in Blender, as well as talking about the way he organized the process in Notion and how he stays motivated., The designer also gives a few tips on how to effectively host a site and compress images. Generally, it’s a very inspiring reading piece.
#4 — Star Wars Scene Transition Effects in CSS
How to make a transition like a Star Wars movie between the scenes with CSS? Bramus made a great lesson about CSS-mask
#5 — Full-scale expression with Grilli Type
This is an interview with Thierry Blancpain (Co-Founder of Grilli Type) posted at Figma Blog. Thierry told Marcin Wichary (Design Manager at Figma) a story of Grilli Type integration of variable fonts in the beginning of 2020, along with the technology of font influence and whether or not it will affect the nearby features of the design industry.
#6 — The ever-curious Haeji Jeong is a designer who wants you to “intervene” in her work
Seoul-based designer Haeji Jeong talks about her obsession with physical objects like books and magazines. The article brings a set of magic works by Haeji, remarkable for their minimalistic bright illustrations contrasting to simple adumbration.
#7— Web Design Done Well: Delightful Data Visualization Examples
An article where you can find good examples of delightful visualization data and a number of links to useful literature on this topic. The Singapore Open Data Diagram and Lunar Open Architecture Graphic are worth mentioning separately. Additionally, you can find key principles of good data visualization:
- Data shall be made easily accessible;
- Data shall be made available for co-creation;
- Data shall be released in a timely manner;
- Data shall be shared in machine-readable format;
- Data shall be as raw as possible.
