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 â 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.
Bad idea of the day: A voice assistant specifically designed to answer toddlers when they ask ‘why’.
Decoding the Design of In-Flight Seat Belts - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-are-airplane-seatbelts-so-weird
Hostile Architecture: '… https://99percentinvisible.org/article/design-crimes-artist-launches-campaign-highlight-hostile-architecture/
One day we may figure out not just genetics but wholesale biosphere design, and then it won’t be “What does it mean to be human” but “Should there be a place for humans”, “What if we used another type of chemistry”, “Why should it be our native biosphere that survives”
A reverse CAPTCHA designed to filter out humans / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/02/09/a-reverse-captcha-designed-to.html
[Updated] BlueGriffon Tutorial: Design a website using the open source BlueGriffon web editor ⌘ https://www.thesitewizard.com/bluegriffon/bluegriffon-2-tutorial-1.shtml
Cringe and the Design of Sacred Experiences https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/01/11/cringe-and-the-design-of-sacred-experiences/
UI Design Tips for visual novels – Studio Th… http://dev.studiotheophilus.com/index.php/2018/01/14/ui-design-tips-for-visual-novels/
On the design of distributed programming models | th… https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/08/17/on-the-design-of-distributed-programming-models/
we need more books designed to be packaged as decks of playing cards. the family arcana is great but not enough.
Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360 | Random … https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/01/07/finding-a-cpu-design-bug-in-the-xbox-360/
Ten new principles for good design https://kottke.org/18/01/ten-new-principles-for-good-design
Web application design is like a generation of people looked at that text adventure written in postscript and said LETS WRITE ALL FIRST PERSON SHOOTERS IN POSTSCRIPT EMBEDDED IN SELF-MODIFYING LATEX DOCUMENTS FOREVER
How To Design A Comic Book Page - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dQEfL2BfUM&t=335s
Meet the scientists building a library of designer drugs - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/8/16619142/designer-drugs-k2-spice-synthetic-weed-ucsf-lab-dea
Web Typography: Designing Tables to be Read, Not Looked At · An A List Apart Article https://alistapart.com/article/web-typography-tables
Muriel Cooper: Designing a Bridge Between the Bauhaus & the Digital Age - 99% Invisible https://99percentinvisible.org/article/muriel-cooper-designing-bridge-bauhaus-digital-age/
Uncomfortable by Design: A Series of Deliberately Inconvenient Everyday Objects - 99% Invisible https://99percentinvisible.org/article/uncomfortable-by-design-a-series-of-deliberately-inconvenient-everyday-objects/
In praise of bad game design • Eurogamer.net http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-09-10-in-defence-of-rough-edges
These trippy videos are designed to entice you to purchase eyewear / Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2017/07/16/these-trippy-videos-are-design.html
https://www.citylab.com/design/2017/07/why-is-the-alt-right-so-angry-about-architecture/532470/?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email https://www.citylab.com/design/2017/07/why-is-the-alt-right-so-angry-about-architecture/532470/?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email