8px's Clipped Content #12
📚 Your dose of pixel-based stuff
Hello everyone!
It’s been a few months, but we’re back after a little Twitter prompt, thank you! 🍾
My observations of the design (and wider, I guess) industry recently has been that we’re still kind of obsessed with automation, but aren’t entirely sure what a world class real use case is.
From speaking to designers and managers, I’ve come to some sort of conclusion. My notes are that I don’t think that our worst fears of the designer’s role are at risk of collapsing, but I do believe that there are strong signals of companies investing less in growing teams.
This means that we may keep our jobs, but we should expect fewer new colleagues in the team. Do more with the same, effectively.
I wish you all a safe end of the year, and a healthy 2025!
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📖 How to ship
A lovely blog post from product builder with a decade of experience, explaining how you should approach work with a mindset of “get it done!”. Some core advice to take away here.
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📖 Leica’s engraved fonts
A proper deep dive on the font choices and engineering involved when typesetting on cameras (and physical objects generally).
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💻 Studios doing cool stuff
A really nice and curated website of brand, motion and digital product design studios doing cool stuff.
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📖 The path to design principal: Mastering archetypes and defining success
A really in depth and useful article from the Adobe design team about how you can level up your career seniority, showing what it takes to reach principal level.
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🌊 Fluid motion generator
If you’ve seen those websites / apps with juicy looking background animations, this is your chance to create your own. It’s a generator where you can play with settings to create your own smooth motions and export as a video.
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📖 Design Literacy in the age of intelligent automation
An exploration into what design actually is. Is it curiosity, curation, conviction, obsession? I’m a big fan of the framing of design excellence coming from a deep obsession about details.
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Did you know we have a podcast?
8px Radio is light. I ask the same 5 questions to every guest!
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube
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See you next time