8px's Clipped Content #9
📚 Your dose of pixel-based stuff
Hello everyone!
It’s time for your quarterly-ish dose of things to consume that have something to do with design.
I hope you’ve all had a positive and forward-looking 2023, and that it continues upwards in 2024.
If not, keep going. Persistence is half the battle, keep chugging along and things will click into place. I promise.
See you all next year!
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📖 What I learned as a product designer at Apple
This article contests a lot of what people would typically feel are key to great product design, but hey Apple is pretty successful. For example, they said that top-down decisions are a good thing (at Apple). I agree 😈
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📖 Design system wisdom, 2023
I love this article from Mark, where he shares lessons on building, cultivating, naming, documenting, versioning, and basically everything. It’s all in bullet points, so won’t take too long to read through.
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👀 Motion design principles
A wonderful page showcasing micro animations, whilst educating us on some core principles of animation.
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📺 The importance of storytelling
This is an interview with Figma’s VP of Product, Yuhki, where he explains how storytelling has influenced his career as someone working on product for YouTube, Uber, and now Figma.
Watch this video [20 mins]
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📖 A case study on colour
Lovely read from the Deliveroo team on how they audited their colour palette for accessibility, and introduced system-wide changes to improve contrast and cognition.
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📖 An over-analytical analysis of Batman’s style
This is a fantastic look comparing The Batman to The Dark Knight in terms of colour, cinematography, and amount of speech. PJ here has created some lovely visuals of the colour of each movie, second by second, smushed into a single image. Even if you’re not a Batman fan, this is impressive.
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Did you know we have a podcast?
8px Radio is back! I ask the same 5 questions to every guest 🎤
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube
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See you next time