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These Uncanny ’80s Illustrations of Life After Humans Are More Relevant Today Than Ever

Eye on Design

Part of what makes Dixon’s post-anthropogenic world — teeming with the ancestors of animals we know today — so believable is their design, as well as the encyclopedic treatment of the book. Having studied paleontology and geology, Dixon started out his career working in publishing at Mitchell/Beazley Ltd.

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Top 10 Best Logo Design Books for Designers

Inkbot Design

Sale Logo Modernism Hardcover Book Remington, R. Roger (Author) Multilingual (Publication Language) 432 Pages – 11/08/2015 (Publication Date) – Taschen America Llc (Publisher) −$17.90 $62.10 Their designs seamlessly balance artistic expression and impactful messaging in innovative ways.

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How research builds the designer

UX Collective

Photo by mentatdgt from Pexels The practice of design has been around since 2.5 The central message of the book Design, When Everybody Designs by Ezio Manzini is that nowadays, everyone designs, actively playing a role in devising strategies to make their lives, companies, societies better.

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The case for using non-human personas in design

UX Collective

Why it is time to move beyond just designing for humans. Image by Ilias via Adobe Stock This article is based on a recently published academic paper with the title Non-Human Personas: Including Nature in the Participatory Design of Smart Cities , which appeared in the Journal of Interaction Design & Architecture(s).

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Patterns are good

UX Collective

(Head First Design Patterns, FREEMAN et al., The pattern-based design paradigm emerged in the 1970s when architect and mathematician Christopher Alexander (1977; 1979) published a set of descriptions about common problems in architecture and their solutions within specific contexts. Pattern languages in interaction design.

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