August 28
Android rebrand
Interesting how Android tries to make its brand as inclusive and accessible as possible.They have changed the name of their releases, gave the logo more modern and accessible look and changed the colors.
Mykhailo Chaika, Senior Product Designer Healthline
Minimiam
French photographer Pierre Javelle and Japanese photographer Akiko Ida teamed up in 2002 to create colorful and funny scenes with foods and small characters.
The first image shows a close up of the action of the figure, but the meaning is not explicit. The second image shows the general scene allowing the viewer to discover the meaning and to continue the adventure according to his or her own references.
The scenes are always full of fun details, very thought through and full of colors. I like staring at them for a while and see if I can catch all the details. You can follow their #minimiam tag on instagram!
Mélanie Yèche, Product Designer Healthline
Rappi Pay
A website that shows a journey of credit card in a very fun and interactive way.
Jay Jung, Product Visual Designer Healthline
Never-ending list of fun and useful color tools for designers (it does end though, at #58)
A lot of really great tools in the list help with color palette creation or accessibility (such as “Colorable” below) and I’m excited to play around with them, but some of them are just fun, playful and unique (such as “Color leap,” “Picular”, and “Brand colors”).
Sarah Johnson, Product Design Manager Healthline
Noodle-like appendages
It’s always fun to see creative solutions for problems you never would’ve thought existed. Collecting research samples from soft, fragile sea creatures like jelly fish can be really tricky to do without harming them, so researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute came up with this robot that has soft spaghetti arms that can grab gently.
Each “finger” is made of an “elastic yet tough silicone matrix,” and inside it are tiny fibers that remain slack when not in use, but which can be stiffened using a tiny amount of hydraulic pressure. This causes the whole finger to bend in a specific direction, in this case inward at the same time as the others, scooping whatever is in their range into the soft 3D-printed “palm.” The grip is soft enough that it won’t harm the creature, but firm enough that it can’t just wriggle out.
Sarah Johnson, Product Design Manager Healthline
