UX Collective

MARCH 17, 2023

Since then, pattern libraries have become a commonly used tool in the design process, enabling designers to document and reuse design solutions for common user interface challenges. Finally, the best of these solutions stand out, self-identify, and refine themselves until they reach the status of a design pattern.

Patterns 127

Patterns Layout Presentation Production 127

A List Apart

MAY 31, 2018

In 2001, more and more of us began using CSS to replace the non-semantic HTML table layouts with which we’d designed the web’s earliest sites. Everyone who wrote the kind of code I just described thought they were advancing the web merely by walking away from table layouts. CSS Grid Layout—MDN web docs.

Coding 112

Coding Layout Web Design Web Design 112

Shillington

DECEMBER 9, 2019

ARS Maquette and Copernicus Book. Designed by Angus R. Shamal and released through ARS Type in 2001, its pleasing geometrics are both super-friendly and supremely readable. Copernicus Book is a much more traditional serif that exudes authority and a sense of formality, yet still with friendly and approachable letter-shapes.

Fonts 69

Fonts Typography Magazine Publishing 69

UX Collective

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Making choices around resource use might make “less bad” graphic design, does it make for sustainable graphic design? Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby write in their 2001 book Design Noir: The Secret Life of Objects that “all design is ideological, the design process is informed by values based on a specific world view.”

Graphic Design 117

Graphic Design Graphic Print Fonts 117