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Interface Café @interfacecafe.com · 21h

📣 Calling all Design Notes listeners:

What other design or creative podcasts do you listen to regularly?

Let me know in the replies!

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Interface Café @interfacecafe.com · 3d

It’s freeing to think about returning to a site built in Notepad as a more direct expression.

Jarrett Fuller unpacks simple tools in this essay.

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#WebDesign #IndieWeb #Simplicity

📚 Read This: Jarrett Fuller on Simple Tools

The irony of recommending this essay on Interface Café, which is hosted on Ghost, a CMS platform, is not lost on me.

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Interface Café @interfacecafe.com · 10d

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

📚 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.

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Interface Café @interfacecafe.com · 10d

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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Levels of Abstraction • Doubleshot

The aesthetic effect of mystery in design.

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Interface Café @interfacecafe.com · 16d

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.

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.

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Interface Café @interfacecafe.com · 16d

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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Interface Café @interfacecafe.com · 17d

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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#GooglePlus #SocialMedia #TBT

One Thing Google+ Got Right

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

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Interface Café @interfacecafe.com · 24d

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

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.

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Interface Café @interfacecafe.com · Oct 2

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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#DesignThinking #CreativeProcess #DesignSystems

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.

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Interface Café @interfacecafe.com · Sep 11

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

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.

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Interface Café @interfacecafe.com · Sep 4

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

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#AdaptiveDesign #FutureofDesign #SpeculativeDesign

The Future of Design is Still Personal

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

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Interface Café @interfacecafe.com · Aug 28

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

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.

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Interface Café @interfacecafe.com · Aug 26

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

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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.

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Interface Café @interfacecafe.com · Aug 21

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.

Reshaping our expectations for generative design

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

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Interface Café @interfacecafe.com · Aug 19

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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A Reading List for Individualized and Adaptive Design

It’s (still) summer, which is the perfect time for a reading list.

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Interface Café @interfacecafe.com · Aug 13

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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Interface Café @interfacecafe.com · Aug 12

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

Sign up to get it directly to your inbox, or on Interface Café ☕️

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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.

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Interface Café @interfacecafe.com · Aug 7

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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Interface Café @interfacecafe.com · Aug 6

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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · Aug 5

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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The User Brings the Confetti

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

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Interface Café @interfacecafe.com · Jul 31

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.

Designing Tools is Awesome: Cameron Koczon, Partner at Fictive Kin

Fictive Kin’s Cameron Koczon on understanding the foundational impact of design.

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Interface Café @interfacecafe.com · Jul 30

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 ☕️

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.

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Interface Café @interfacecafe.com · Jul 28

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.

Design Space and the Generative Spectrum • Doubleshot

Untangling some of the abstract and ambiguous possibilities of designing with AI.

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Interface Café @interfacecafe.com · Jul 25

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

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Interface Café @interfacecafe.com · Jul 24

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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