8px's Clipped Content #11
📚 Your dose of pixel-based stuff
Hello everyone!
It’s been a long time since Clipped Content was published – it’s been a very busy few months, so I apologise 🙏
An observation from the past ~6 months, is that companies are still jumping headfirst into the oceans of AI, without thinking much further ahead than securing social or investment hype.
I’ve personally struggled to find a daily use case in my work, however outside of the office I’ve been using ChatGPT a lot to write code way out of my depth. Now this is incredibly exciting, in particular as it builds on the advice of the last issue for designers to pick up the basics of HTML and CSS. With ChatGPT, or other, able to produce quality JavaScript, we’re looking at a bright future of code for everyone.
Enjoy the issue,
Luis
📖 Action-centered design
Have you noticed the widget-ification of everything? Everything is available as a mini app now, even Duolingo are using it as a marketing tactic. This article offers a technical breakdown, asking the question “what is an app?”.
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🐦 Behind the scenes of iconic music covers
A great Twitter thread looking at famous album covers, but photographs from the other angle.
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📖 Creating new, not more
This article is mostly about how you find new ways of expressing design patterns, via these questions:
How do you train your creative muscle?
How do you improve taste?
How do you make people say, “Oh, that was nice” when they use your product?
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📖 Web accessibility manual
A lovely, short set of principles on building accessible interfaces. You’ll definitely bookmark this one.
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📺 Marina Abramović in "History"
She’s an artist who does…pretty crazy stuff for the medium. This is more tame in style, but a fantastic spoken word / mini movie piece from her about solitude in an artist’s life and what it means.
Watch this video (18 minutes)
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📖 Nine lessons from my first year as a design system product manager
The title kind of sums this one up 😆
Did you know we have a podcast?
I recently published a two part episode on design systems, and in particular creating composable components.
See you next time
@8pxmag