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Stories from Medium’s design team

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Design at Medium ¶ We are a small design team with large ambitions.

MediumDec 8, 2015

Not just underlines and pilcrows

Why I enjoy working on the design team at Medium

Marcin WicharyDec 8, 2015

Design Research Kit

At Medium, we’re trying out a fortnightly Designer Day, where we get out of the building and work on design-initiated projects. One recent…

Sasha LubomirskyFeb 29

Making time for design-initiated work

The Inaugural Designer Day

Jules ForrestFeb 29

Green 4 2.0

Restoring the peace in our color galaxy

☯ Brad Simpson ☯Jan 20

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Pablo CaroDec 21, 20153 min read

How I really ‘see’

This is a trick I use when I am looking for reference for my projects.

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Tyler HowarthDec 7, 20152 min read

**Regular and Compact iOS display size breakdown for designers**

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Marcin WicharyOct 21, 20157 min read

System shock

A story of a 25-year-old font coming back with a vengeance

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Marcin WicharyOct 19, 20156 min read

The messy tech of typography

Quotation marks

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Marcin WicharyOct 7, 20156 min read

Cast of characters

Taking a closer look at new Medium fonts: Charter and Kievit

We’re excited to introduce new fonts for our stories on Medium today.

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Brad BirdsallOct 7, 20154 min read

Project TNT

The next evolution of type on Medium

It’s late Thursday night in the Medium office, a week before the 2.0 launch. Marcin, a fellow designer and typographer, is sitting a few feet away. We’ve hit that moment in every project where you’re tired — really…

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Sasha LubomirskyOct 7, 20155 min read

How design is like writing is like ceramics

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You know the old story about the ceramics teacher?

One semester, the teacher assigned half his class to focus on the quantity of their output, and half on the quality. Those in the first group would…

Marcin WicharyJul 1, 20158 min read

Tactical Design Critique

One of the ways we scrutinize design at Medium

One format we use at Medium to critique and improve our design output is called Tactical Design Critique (TDC). It’s based on one of the tools provided by Holacracy, which is an…

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Marcin WicharyMay 29, 201510 min read

Everyday design

The usual and unusual challenges of designing the license support for Medium

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Brad BirdsallApr 14, 20151 min read

A conversation between myself and Tyler Howarth, the most recent member of the Medium Design team, before he joined.

On Friday, Feb 27, Tyler Howarth wrote:

I’m super excited to come in next week and meet more of the team.

Marcin WicharyFeb 9, 20156 min read

Death to typewriters

How typewriters ruined typography and what we here at Medium doing to fix it

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Marcin WicharyFeb 9, 20155 min read

Printing Medium stories

Printing articles off of Medium might not be commonplace, but we want it to be…

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Marcin WicharyNov 3, 20146 min read

Bookmarklets in the design world

Why we sometimes use bookmarklets on the design team at Medium

Marcin WicharyOct 24, 20147 min read

First in, first out: The pilcrow’s strange typographic history

Marcin WicharyAug 15, 20147 min read

Whitespace

A peek into the typographical pod at Medium’s offices

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Brad BirdsallAug 9, 20142 min read

Image zoom

Medium is about reading great content, and images dramatically enhance stories, so we set out to create the best image zoom experience on the web. It’s not easy for authors to find great imagery for their stories. We wanted to build an experience that would reflect their efforts in a seamless and delightful…

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Marcin WicharyJul 28, 20143 min read