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Web UI/UX is in its infancy—but there’s another industry that has been doing this stuff for decades: video games. I grew up playing Nintendo, Xbox, PlayStation—you name it. As I grew older (and leveled up), so did they. Low-res sprites became high-poly 3-D models; 3:4 aspect ratio turned into 16:9; mono and stereo evolved into Dolby Surround Sound 5.1. As the technology developed, so did their presentations. |
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Collaging is a tender and patience-oriented craft—there are few people in today’s digital era that can pull it off. Najeebah Al-Ghadban—or just Najeebah, as she calls herself—is one of those people. I’ve been following her instagram for a while now, and whenever one of her new pieces pops into my feed I always feel like it’s a treat. She manages to pull all the right emotional strings—humor, sadness, aggression and love. And she makes it look so damn easy. Enjoy. |
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An unsexy solution for an unsexy task—and it worked. I grew up seeing commercials for the Oreck XL. Every time they came on TV, I couldn’t understand how they competed with all the sexy vacuum cleaners out there—the ones with clear colored tubes, spaceship fenders and wavy curves that would make the Kardashians jealous. |
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There’s an entire community of hobbyists who spend their spare time colorizing historical photography. One gathering and sharing place is /r/ColorizedHistory on Reddit, where the users are “...dedicated to high quality colorizations of historical black and white images, and discussions of a historical nature.” Their work helps us view the past in a different light—almost as if it were the present—just by coloring images in a manner that allows them to be more relatable. Going through the posts turns into an adventure. It’s like seeing things for the first time, even though the subject matter isn’t necessarily anything new. As designers, taking a moment to really dig into an interesting experience such as this can help us apply similar rethinking in other areas of our life—and work. Hope you enjoy. |
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Running From Camera, which started in 2006, is the first project I encountered that gave me a sense of the utter power of simplicity. The concept: The rules are simple: I put the self-timer on two seconds, push the button and try to get as far from the camera as I can. |
