Weekly Roundup: Design Related Links #38

Design + Branding:

• Scientific American redesign
• Mind the GAP!
• Branding the War on Spam
• 2010 MacArthur Fellows: Matthew Carter
• Influencing Business Strategy Through Design
• Ask Sagi Haviv
• Brush ‘n’ Script
• Lubalin love
• Interview with Massimo Vignelli
• The joy of X

User Experience:

• Anatomy of the Goodreads.com Friend Spam Dark Pattern
• 960 Pixel Grids Made Easy
• Mark’s UX clippings: the importance of context
• Auto Refreshing News System With Built-In HTML Search
• Where Good Ideas Come From—Steven Johnson
• Munich Oktoberfest Statistics in Infographics
• Radio Johnny: Indi Young on Non-Directed Interviews
• BBC Dimensions: Overlaying Places, Events and Things on Maps
• Design for Mobile: Mobile Input
• Research: How Effective is Animation in Showing Temporal Trends?

Other Tangents:

• Microsoft unveils IE9 web browser
• Your Mobile Marketing Plan in Four Easy Steps
• Google Web Site Optimizer
• Climate Change: Addressing the Major Skeptic Arguments
• OCAD Who? OCADU Kicks Off Its First School Year

Weekly Roundup: Design Related Links #37

Design + Branding:

• Web Font Extravaganza
• Lella Vignelli
• The 10 Core Values Of A Winning Personal Brand
• Who we are and what we do
• The Digital Evolution of Branding
• Italicized Mail
• The Creativity Crisis? What Creativity Crisis?
• Pantone Forecasts Spring Fashion Colors
• William Drenttel on Design and Social Innovation
• Expeditionary Learning

User Experience:

• Usability Study Shows Kids Don’t Search
• Infographic of the Day: The iPad Competes With Just About Everyone
• User Experience Diagrams
• Testing Accordion Forms
• Lead User-Centered Ideation
• Improve UX with Microcopy
• This Spam Infographic About Spam Infographics Makes My Head Hurt
• The Next Mobile Revolution Is Coming
• The Future of Information: Touchscreens EVERYWHERE! [Video]
• Google Instant: What Will You Do With the Seconds You Save?

Other Tangents:

• Marketing to the Bottom of the Pyramid
• Twitter Launches Sponsored Microsite for Tracking New York Fashion Week
• Majoring In Persuasion
• Zeixs Books
• 10 Ways Designers Can Make More Money

Weekly Roundup: Design Related Links #36

Design + Branding:

• Pentagram: New Work: ila
• Episode 18: Roger Black on web type and templates
• You want a bigger logo? You can’t handle a bigger logo!
• Google’s Color-Changing Logo and What the Company Is About to Announce
• Branding King Bansah
• Meet Eddie Opara, Pentagram’s Newest Partner
• Typographic Sins
• The Look That Says Book
• 10 Replacement Icons to Re-Beautify iTunes 10
• The Jon Engle vs. Stockart.com story – an anti-spec work parable?
• Peter Saville and the story behind that England shirt

User Experience:

• Episode 19: Beyond Usability with Aarron Walter
• Interactive Podcasts: Visual Note-Taking 101
• Mental Notes: A Must-Have Addition to Your UX Toolkit
• Shopify.com
• The new wave: Rogue mobile applications
• Three Reasons Why Persuasive Design Isn’t Enough to Influence Change
• Usability for Mobile Devices
• Why I think Ryan Carson doesn’t believe in UX Professionals, and why I do
• Space to think – however untidy
• A Practical Guide to Information Architecture

Other Tangents:

• ROI Redux In A Knowledge-Based Economy
• Apple’s Pricing Decoys
• Mom, can you hand me those colour swatches?
• Completely brilliant & prescient video of Arthur C Clarke talking about ‘The Future’, 1964
• Your smile didn’t matter

Weekly Roundup: Design Related Links #35

Design + Branding:

• Death to Design Awards
• Calling BS on perfectionism
• Short Course in Audio Branding
• How Much Ink Does Your Font Drink?
• Discovery Kids Grows Up
• Two Triangles are Better than One
• What Design Can’t Do
• Building Brands With Sound
• Exploring The Value Of Sub Brands
• BrewDog

User Experience:

• Hello and welcome to the EightOS experience.
• How to Shop for Unmoderated Usability Testing Tools
• A chat with Microsoft Principal Researcher Bill Buxton, Part II
• whichtestwon.com
• The Rewards of Quality Information Architecture
• Interactive Sketching Notation 0.1
• UX Zeitgeist
• Chrome Experiments
• You’re a failure: Deal with it
• Social Engagement Checklist
• The Beginner’s Guide to SEO
• TwitterCounter is the number one Twitter statistics website
• iPhone and iPad development GUI Kits, Stencils and Icons.

Other Tangents:

• The Art of Momentum: Why Your Ideas Need Speed
• Are You Ambitious Enough?
• Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime
• Internet may phase out printed Oxford Dictionary
• Ten Things Your Employees Wish You Knew About Them
• 99 Excuses For NOT Making Ideas Happen