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“Designing, building and launching websites is real hard work — but our profession is seriously misunderstood. To help explain the process, we drew you a picture. A really big picture.”

via A Website Named Desire.

“For the African series of numbers I was interested in making letters that had an element of the handmade and the brush stroke. I had seen at previous African Cup of Nations how the fans enjoyed displaying loyalty, by painting their bodies and writing the names of their favourite players. These letters – whilst copying traditional sans forms for example – express a wonderful kind of joy and exuberance. Obviously within a typeface only a certain part of the spirit of the script can be capture; it can’t have multiple variants of the same glyph for example.”

via World Cup Typography: Paul Barnes | The FontFeed.

Video games are a big waste of time. We all know it, but for some reason you still end up playing them for hours at a time. Why? Well, it’s because the elements within games, such as a scoreboard and action points make them addicting.

These elements are called game mechanics. And although you probably don’t care about them, you should because you can use them to improve your search engine rankings.

via How to Use Game Mechanics to Improve Your SEO.

“Huge font libraries don’t make good designs, good designers make good designs.”

Sean Gaffney and Matthew Smith, Web Typography & CSS3 Presentation

“It’s great to see people thinking hard about the potential usability benefits a touch screen device brings, instead of lazily porting over old UI elements from the now aging point and click era.”

via UsabilityPost – Pull Down to Refresh.

But wait…a trend in design where the subject is “reduced to its necessary elements”? As opposed to a design where unnecessary elements are added or kept? Isn’t the removal of the unnecessary a definition of what “good” design is? Design is communication. Design is what allows us to interact with our products and make them work. Good design makes this interaction easy. Naturally, good design also tends to simplify, unclutter and organize.

I can see how minimalism can have a clear meaning in art, where the artist is free to create their own rules and ideas. Minimalism is a style that can be characterized by that use of simple, basic forms and white space. But when we apply this term to everyday design, the term begins to lose meaning. Clear, clean and simple design isn’t minimalist. It’s just good, clear design.

Simplicity isn’t a design trend, it’s an attribute of good design.

via UsabilityPost – It Isn’t Minimalism.