Cringe and the Design of Sacred Experiences https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/01/11/cringe-and-the-design-of-sacred-experiences/
Tutorials That Don’t Talk Down To You - Context Sensitive Design - Extra Credits - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFdEEzgc7pg
Jeanine Adkisson - Design and Prototype a Language In Clojure - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1KVwoE3n28
On Weaponised Design - Radical Networks - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG_z8jyREgk
Visual Programming Languages - Snapshots http://blog.interfacevision.com/design/design-visual-progarmming-languages-snapshots/
Folklore.org: Desk Ornaments http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Desk_Ornaments.txt&sortOrder=Sort+by+Date&topic=Software+Design
Folklore.org: The Grand Unified Model (2) - The Finder http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=The_Grand_Unified_Model_The_Finder.txt&sortOrder=Sort+by+Date&topic=Software+Design
Folklore.org: The Grand Unified Model (1) - Resources http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=The_Grand_Unified_Model.txt&sortOrder=Sort+by+Date&topic=Software+Design
GitHub - schierlm/oberon-risc-emu-enhanced: Emulator for the Oberon RISC machine, with enhanced features (not supported by the original design by N. Wirth) https://github.com/schierlm/oberon-risc-emu-enhanced
Shiba Computer https://shiba.computer/essay/on-weaponised-design/
The Universe of Discourse : Design patterns of 1972 https://blog.plover.com/2006/09/11/
GitHub - schierlm/oberon-risc-emu-enhanced: Emulator for the Oberon RISC machine, with enhanced features (not supported by the original design by N. Wirth) https://github.com/schierlm/oberon-risc-emu-enhanced
Hot take: in the absence of full information, provide reasonable defaults that are easily overridden. Making users repeat normally-identical pieces of information several times just because they CAN differ in a corner case is bad design.
A Look at the Design of Lua | November 2018 | Communications of the ACM https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/11/232214-a-look-at-the-design-of-lua/fulltext
On Weaponised Design - Radical Networks - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG_z8jyREgk
Scale Modeling History: After the Postwar Boom in Tiny Designs https://tedium.co/2018/09/27/scale-model-hobby-history/
The design and implementation of modern column-oriented database systems | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/09/26/the-design-and-implementation-of-modern-column-oriented-database-systems/
Design Justice, A.I., and Escape from the Matrix of Domination https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/costanza-chock
Confirming the intelligent designer’s existence, and using its intelligence to solve otherwise intractable problems by making them look like niches for life to settle
Brandon Invergo - Anti-Web-Design Manifesto http://brandon.invergo.net/news/2013-03-10-Anti-web-design-Manifesto.html
That book the protagonist of The Gernsback Continuum was doing apparently came out lol https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/most-beautiful-gas-station-design
Sound Design: How Movie-Makers Create The Sound of Violence https://tedium.co/2018/07/31/indiana-jones-sound-design-history/
Re: https://www.fastcompany.com/90208681/the-myth-of-human-centered-design – good design encourages symbiosis, while bad design encourages parasitism. (Go read your Engelbart & Licklider again.)
Why Google‘s Material Design is a political choice | Imaginary Cloud https://www.imaginarycloud.com/blog/material-design-is-a-political-choice/
Brutalist Web Design https://brutalist-web.design/
How much bad UI design comes from a focus on making the UI consistent with underlying code that was designed based on ease of implementation in the programmer’s language of choice?
Designing a Programming Language for the Desert | Futhark - A High Performance Functional Array Language https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2018-06-18-designing-a-programming-language-for-the-desert.html
Designing to Facilitate Browsing: A Look Back at the Hyperties Workstation Browser | Don Hopkins http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/102
Going beyond UI and UX with User Design, the hottest new branch of AI-assisted psychology (because, why spend time optimizing the interface when you can just mold the user)
Designing apps for the E Ink Kindle https://kevinlynagh.com/kindle-games/
The cyberpunk aesthetic, moreso than mere future noir, is the future as seen through the eyes of Sir Clive Sinclair: sleek but broken, and dominated by posturing. It’s a beveled black hermetically-sealed shell cracked open to fix manufacturing & design flaws, alligator-clipped wire spilling out, but no fix will prevent it from frying your brain if you look at it funny.
Band name of the day: the nocturnal design
Visual Programming Languages - Snapshots http://blog.interfacevision.com/design/design-visual-progarmming-languages-snapshots/
A really interesting composable UI project designed for generative art: https://lobste.rs/s/9ezxcf/hyperlook_nee_hypernews_nee_goodnews#c_rva21l
The HP-35 http://codex99.com/design/the-hp35.html
Language Design: Unified Condition Syntax https://soc.github.io/languages/unified-condition-syntax
The Overlooked Wonders of Soviet-Era Industrial Design - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/soviet-design-history
Kaukatcr: an experiment in language design for multi-dimensional spaces http://www.lord-enki.net/medium-backup/2018-04-12_Kaukatcr–an-experiment-in-language-design-for-multi-dimensional-spaces-cc038caafff9.html
Brutalist design is the bad influence we all need https://www.imaginarycloud.com/blog/why-we-need-web-brutalism/
Designing better file organization around tags, not hierarchies https://www.nayuki.io/page/designing-better-file-organization-around-tags-not-hierarchies
VR games specifically designing for sticking your head into the environment: Messages on the insides of banana peels, easter egg worlds hidden in snowglobes, black holes near which you can see what happened five minutes ago, fight games where headbutts are a legit attack
In Defense of Design Thinking, Which Is Terrible + Subtraction.com https://www.subtraction.com/2018/04/02/in-defense-of-design-thinking-which-is-terrible/
A design for a hypothetical undergraduate CS curriculum https://medium.com/@/a-design-for-a-hypothetical-undergraduate-cs-curriculum-1d776cc91b2c
It’s Nice That | A chat with the Orwellian mastermind in charge of the UK town known as Scarfolk https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/scarfolk-graphic-design-210318
Using Ethics In Web Design — Smashing Magazine https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/03/using-ethics-in-web-design/
Media Design, Auckland | https://wiki.xxiivv.com/talk
Social engineering is engineering. When you design software used by people, the community is not an externality – it’s shaped by your design, & therefore your responsibility.