83. Good advice about email
Let's start with this excellent article in the New York Times. Detailed and accurate.
84. Design Principles
There are many design principles. The internet has given them new vigour. Ben Brignell curates a good list of them on his site Design Principles.
Here are three new ones that grabbed my attention recently, The NHS design principles, the principles behind Bulb design and Lyft on Colour. The Lyft link isn't really principles but an article on how they use colour at Lyft and the tool they built to make better colour decisions easier. It's an open source colour algorithm called ColorBox.io It's pretty epic.
The Lyft Design team are worth keeping an eye on.
Bulb the principles behind our design
85. Ive interviewed in an echo chamber
I think I once said on this blog that although an interview with Jony Ive will never give away much, any glimpse behind the curtain is interesting. In this new interview the curtain stays tightly shut. As much as I like Jony Ive, Ruth Rogers, Richard Rogers and indeed the River Cafe this is an echoing interview in an echo chamber.
Still, here it is. Jony Ive on the Apple Watch and Big Tech’s responsibilities (might be behind a paywall for some).
86. Sketching elephants and other animals.
Paul Rand used to sketch a lot of elephants which reminded me of Durrell Bishop's wonderful, never-ending sketches. Which reminded me again that I must sketch more pointless stuff. Maybe I'll start something on here to force me to stick to it.
Paul Rand's Monkeys and Elephants
87. Working late, responsibly
Alice linked to an excellent blog post about working late and techniques for handling that. I was looking for an old email the other day and found this from my advertising days.
I can't really remember the incident but it's not the fault of a particular client or agency. It's the culture of the advertising industry that makes this so commonplace. It's expected that everyone will work late and that a deadline means you must work right up until that point. That's not healthy.
This article by Dan Carley is a good read and full of pragmatic, sensible advice.
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