8px's Clipped content #7

📚 Your dose of pixel-based stuff

Hello everyone, and welcome to your summer edition of “stuff you may have missed in design”!

The past months, at least within my view of the product/web design space has been dominated by one predictable thing…variables aka design tokens. I’m practically dreaming in the stuff now, which makes a change from the usual ❖ dreams.

It’s something that is pretty hard to figure out if you haven’t had much experience with it before. I don’t have much experience in a production environment with design tokens, so the learning curve has been very high.

If you’re struggling to wrap your head around them, don’t worry it will take time and there is no rush to become an expert. Heck, most projects don’t even need them.

Have a great week everyone,
Luis

p.s. If you don’t remember what this is, it’s a quarterly (apparently) newsletter that I send out which includes a bunch of cool stuff that I find from being online a lot.

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🐦 Warren Buffet: Boredom is good

This is such a great video, seriously.

Watch video on Twitter

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📖 Colour psychology

And how to use it in your brand!

Check it out

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📺 Making Google You

A beautifully shot 2 minute video walking through how Google’s visual language was made.

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📖 A great idea cannot be predicted

An interview with Jonny Ive himself talking about how the creative process is supposed to be loose, and predicting it is a fool’s errand.

Read this article

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📺 Saul Bass pitching the original Bell System logo redesign

This is a long video, but it’s from the good ol’ days and one of the best logo designers there it talking the client through their proposal.

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🔠 Pick a font, any font

This is a cool little idea. The article allows you to pick a font of your choice to read it in. What if customisation was at the core of the web?

Take a look

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😫 The 12 stages of burnout

A diagram. Sorry, but it’s important!

View tweet

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📆 Multi layered calendars

A wonderful portfolio exploration by Julian Lehr looking at how we could think about improving calendars to accommodate our “layered” (not flat, singular) lives.

Read this article

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🎫 Freebie: Figma variable starter kit

I published this to the Figma community off the back of a Twitter thread, hopefully it’s useful as you begin your design colour token journeys.

Check it out

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See you next time,
@8pxmag