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📚 Read This: What Does Your UI Say To Your Users? New on the Material Blog: a post from Nico Thornley, Brenton Simpson, Julia Feldman, and Michael Gilbert about research the team did to determine how users perceive Material 3 against Material 2.

A post from Nico Thornley, Brenton Simpson, Julia Feldman, and Michael Gilbert about research the team did to determine how users perceive Material 3.

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#MaterialDesign #UserResearch #UIUX

Levels of Abstraction • Doubleshot The aesthetic effect of mystery in design.

In a brand new issue of Doubleshot, I reflect on the importance of careful and intentional abstraction, and the aesthetic impact that can be created by mystery.

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Other Than Expected: Fabian Bircher on Combining Art, Architecture, and Code Fabian discusses his unique creative process, where inspiration flows from both artistic concepts and the discovery of new technological possibilities.

Can technical expertise be a creative trap?

In a new Design Notes, Fabian Bircher explains how to break free of what's technically possible to make a greater creative impact.

A new issue of the Doubleshot is set to go out next Wednesday! Sign up now so you don't miss it, and catch up on previous design tips, tools, and theory.

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One Thing Google+ Got Right Decentralized platforms are picking up steam, and one reason I’m excited for that comes back to Google+

At the height of Google+, many Android dev, customization, and fan community members were hanging out there. Here’s what I think it got right:

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Metaphor and Transformation in the Interface The way metaphor permeates the interface points to a continued struggle to live with the complexity introduced by the very media we’ve created to manage it.

The way metaphor permeates the interface points to a continued struggle with the complexity introduced by the things we’ve created.

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#Design #UX #Metaphor

Tension • Doubleshot The most interesting explorations are those that show something unexpected: a constellation of system features that creates a slight unbalance or a new focal point in the composition.

The most interesting explorations are those that show something unexpected: the importance of creating a slight unbalance or a new focal point in the composition.

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View Counts and the Detotalization of Social Media On an infinitely scrolling, algorithmically generated list, scrolling past something is about the least intentional thing one could do.

On an infinitely scrolling, algorithmic list, scrolling past something is about the least intentional thing one could do.

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#SocialMedia #Design #UserExperience

The Future of Design is Still Personal Connecting historic conceptions of adaptable design with contemporary visions, looking toward a truly adaptive future.

Connecting historic conceptions of adaptable design with contemporary visions, looking toward a truly adaptive future.

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#AdaptiveDesign #FutureofDesign #SpeculativeDesign

How to Find Device Metrics and dp Resolution for Any Screen (Updated) If Googling doesn’t give you the numbers you need, or you just want to show off your math skills, here’s a relatively easy way to determine the relevant metrics for your designs.

If Googling doesn’t give you the numbers you need, or you just want to show off your math skills, here’s a relatively easy way to determine the relevant metrics for your designs.

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#Design #AndroidDev #UIUX

Doubleshot - Interface Café Enrich your practice with the Interface Café newsletter—one part curated practical tips, one part theoretical exploration, delivered to you bi-weekly.

Tomorrow, a new Doubleshot newsletter goes out, pondering the primacy of the “problem” in the design process.

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Reshaping our expectations for generative design From Le Corbusier to Figma, “design is, at its core, a permanently subject-oriented discipline.”

From Le Corbusier to Figma, “design is, at its core, a permanently subject-oriented discipline.”

To realize the potential of this coming era of design, we must reconsider the nature of the objects we create.

A Reading List for Individualized and Adaptive Design It’s (still) summer, which is the perfect time for a reading list.

Adaptability to the individual is a persistent vision that’s engaged a long line of thinkers and practitioners in computing since day one.

Trace its history (and predict its future) in this summer reading list 📚

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In a new Doubleshot, some thoughts (and resources) on the irreplaceable creativity of the mind and how individual subjectivity, on a fundamental level, can’t be generated. ☕️

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Tomorrow, a new Doubleshot newsletter will go out centered on what distinguishes generation and creation.

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The interface subtly evokes and communicates possibility. For an example, look no further than the chair you’re probably sitting on right now. 🪑

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Design Notes Design Notes is a show about creative work and what it teaches us, hosted by Liam Spradlin.

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The User Brings the Confetti Design Notes is a show about creative work and what it teaches us, hosted by Liam Spradlin.

In a new episode—Rob Giampietro returns to the show for a case study on @Notion.com Faces. Rob and I cover:

• The irreplaceable joy in hand-drawn assets
• The role of expression in #UX
• How to ship ambitious design projects

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Designing Tools is Awesome: Cameron Koczon, Partner at Fictive Kin Fictive Kin’s Cameron Koczon on understanding the foundational impact of design.

To go along with this week’s Doubleshot newsletter, take some time to revisit this @design-notes.show episode with Cameron Koczon, in which Koczon explains the importance of designing tools—products that simply facilitate user intent.

Let’s Talk About Tools • Doubleshot Like physical workshops, these pieces of software are likely to supply slightly different sets of tools for carrying out your intent as a craftsperson.

In a 🆕 Doubleshot newsletter: Is software like Figma or Sketch actually a tool?

How should we think about these platforms in relation to our work?

Plus, some curated practical tips for the week ☕️

Design Space and the Generative Spectrum • Doubleshot Untangling some of the abstract and ambiguous possibilities of designing with AI.

From ideation to creating and running the interface, I broke down—in a previous Doubleshot—the spectrum of possible landing places I see for generative AI in the process of creating UI.

Doubleshot - Interface Café Enrich your practice with the Interface Café newsletter—one part curated practical tips, one part theoretical exploration, delivered to you bi-weekly.

A new issue of the Doubleshot newsletter is coming out next week, and it’s all about the relationship designers have to their tools.

Sign up to get resources, prompts for thought, and a little theory on the tools we use in our everyday practice.

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One of the things I worked on in the Expressive update was adaptive behaviors for components. The button group has a particularly nice set of behaviors around resizing the buttons and hiding/showing buttons based on screen size.

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Material Design Build beautiful, usable products faster. Material Design is an adaptable system—backed by open-source code—that helps teams build high quality digital experiences.

The button group is one of the unsung heroes of the M3 Expressive update.

With both size and width variations, you can create really interesting compositions for controls, segmentation, filtering, and more.

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App shown in mobile, foldable, and tablet windows

What are the most common challenges you face when designing an app to adapt across window sizes?
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One of the things I worked on in the Expressive update was adaptive behaviors for components. The button group has a particularly nice set of behaviors around resizing the buttons and hiding/showing buttons based on screen size.

m3.material.io/components/b...

Material Design Build beautiful, usable products faster. Material Design is an adaptable system—backed by open-source code—that helps teams build high quality digital experiences.

The button group is one of the unsung heroes of the M3 Expressive update.

With both size and width variations, you can create really interesting compositions for controls, segmentation, filtering, and more.

m3.material.io/components/b...
#designsky

The Subtle Typographic Details in Goodreads’ New Logo A mini design breakdown of the new logo face.

🆕 on Interface Café, I had to take a minute to break down a subtle typographic detail hiding in the new Goodreads logo.

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The Interface Behind (Liquid, Frosted, Tinted) Glass The cyclical revival of “glass” as a sign of newness, technical sophistication, and innovation.

Liquid Glass stands in a long line of interface systems that seek to demonstrate technical sophistication and newness.

Read more:

I continue to have too much fun drawing weird little coffee cups for my blog.

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