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A calm space to work through ideas on the meaning of our work, both theoretical and practical. Written by @iamli.am ☕ https://interfacecafe.com/
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📣 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 is a show about creative work and what it teaches us, hosted by Liam Spradlin.
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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

📻 Tune in:
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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