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Mono Moment: Slanted's helpful reference guide to magical monospaced fonts

Creative Boom

A new book published by Slanted celebrates these hardworking fonts and offers a source of inspiration for graphic designers and typographers looking for a helpful reference guide. Slanted puts it down to a massive increase in typeface production over the last three decades.

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Beginner’s Guide to Publishing Your First Ebook

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In the current era, self-publishing is easier than ever, making the most challenging aspect of becoming an established author the task of deciding on a topic to write about. Regardless of the topic, writing and publishing an ebook involves several crucial steps that you cannot avoid.

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A product design process for the real world

UX Collective

The product design playbook I use to break down and execute on design projects. At the start of 2021, Dialpad’s core product was a business phone platform. By the end of the year, however, we acquired two companies and pledged to add email, chat, and social to our product. What’s your product design process?”

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Paul Catherall's illustrations spark a new series of modernist matchboxes

Creative Boom

Under a new brand called London Strike, the first of six matchboxes has been released today by Blue Crow Media , an award-winning publisher of distinctive city guide maps and more, including an ongoing celebrated series dedicated to Brutalist architecture.

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Job application UX, the cult of productivity, Figma responsive mode

UX Collective

By Elvis Hsiao The cult of productivity → Is the decline of elitism of creativity inevitable? By Laura Sabau Tatar Tools and resources Uniquely Japan → 6 web design styles to reference. → By Matej Latin Editor picks Job applications suck because bad UX → The most punishing part of being unemployed.

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Designing teachable products

UX Collective

The importance of teachable interactions Inadequate consideration of how products are taught to users can result in sub-optimal product designs. The goal of such workshops is to understand the client’s perception of the users’ needs, their goals for the project, their vision for the product’s design, and their criteria for its success.

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How to build better AI products with user research

UX Collective

For years now, we’ve been surrounded by products leveraging Machine Learning (ML). It determines what we see on social media, the GPS systems that find the best travel routes, and the recommendation engines on e-commerce websites that suggest products adapted to our preferences. Diary studies are also very effective for AI products.