Designer Sketches
Philip LevyLearn from history’s most influential product designers.
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Learning how to speak machine with John Maeda
Lily pads on a pond, in a papier-mâché style, generated by Microsoft Designer
When John Maeda’s book, How To Speak Machine: Computational Thinking For The Rest Of Us, was published in November 2019, ChatGPT was on version 2 and most of us...
Unsuck your typography: 10 tips anyone can use to create a better reading experience
Apple Magic Keyboard - US English
With the launch of the Macintosh computer, Steve Jobs started a typography revolution. In a commencement speech at Stanford in 2005, he explained the impact a calligraphy course he took in college had on h...
Charlotte Perriand: The most interesting woman in the world of 20th century design (#4)
Plaque commemorating Perriand’s studio in Paris, Chabe01, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Charlotte Perriand is the most interesting woman in the world of 20th century design. Her life story reads like a spy adventure novel.
She helpe...
User-centered interior design
Nuage storage cabinet from Cassina
I’m working through Charlotte Perriand’s autobiography, A Life of Creation, and within the first 100 pages, she’s already given us some great parables on the importance of understanding your user.
New...
Paul Rand’s Thoughts on Design: What was he thinking? (#3)
IBM rebus logo, public domain
Paul Rand and his work have been much discussed and extolled: Thoughts on Design has been called “a manifesto” and “a bible on modern graphic design.” When Steve Jobs hired him to design the logo for NeXT Comp...
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