#designcritique — Public Fediverse posts

Oh, the audacity! A font company patting themselves on the back for not using AI 🤖, as if designing #typefaces sans robots is akin to slicing bread by hand 🥖. Next they'll brag about their cutting-edge technology: the wheel! 🚴‍♂️
https://mass-driver.com/article/from-human-hands #fontdesign #audacity #techirony #AIhumor #designcritique #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, yes, the UI of Windows 2000—the peak of revolutionary design with its *riveting* solid background and those game-changing labeled icons. 🙄 Did someone seriously just write a love letter to a glorified beige filing cabinet? 😂 #NostalgiaIsntAlwaysGood
https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-06-16/0/POSTING-en.html #NostalgiaDesign #Windows2000 #UIIcons #TechHumor #DesignCritique #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, #Inkscape 1.4.4 — because nothing says "innovation" like releasing yet another version of a vector graphics editor nobody asked for 🙄🎨. They've perfected the art of copy-pasting "Draw Freely" like it actually means something, while hoping the release notes will make us care. Spoiler: they don't. 😏📉
https://inkscape.org/doc/release_notes/1.4.4/Inkscape_1.4.4.html #Update #VectorGraphics #Innovation #ReleaseNotes #DesignCritique #CreativeTools #HackerNews #ngated

The Pleasures of Poor Product Design

https://www.inconspicuous.info/p/the-pleasures-of-poor-product-design

#HackerNews #PoorProductDesign #DesignCritique #UserExperience #ProductDesign #Insights

🎨 Oh, look! Another article glorifying the lineage of "minimalist design" as if we're not all overpaying for it already. 🙄 From the "revolutionary" Braun T3 to the iPod—because who wouldn't want to compare a dusty old transistor radio to a digital music player? 📻➡️🎧
https://drams.framer.website/journal/from-braun-t3-to-apples-ipod #minimalistdesign #designcritique #techhistory #consumerism #overhyped #HackerNews #ngated

What Happened to Apple's Legendary Attention to Detail?

https://blog.johnozbay.com/what-happened-to-apples-attention-to-detail.html

#HackerNews #Apple #AttentionToDetail #TechNews #DesignCritique #ProductQuality

The National Design Studio Is a Scam

https://www.chrbutler.com/the-national-design-studio-is-a-scam

#HackerNews #NationalDesignStudio #Scam #DesignScam #OnlineScams #DesignCritique #HackerNews

Read 'Discussing Design' to discover how framing conversations around intent and impact fosters transparency, trust, and collaboration. It’s a must-read for anyone looking to enhance team dynamics and craft more user-centered, innovative solutions. #BookReviews #DesignCritique #DesignSkills

https://www.designative.info/2025/07/03/book-review-discussing-design-by-adam-connor-aaron-irizarry/

Why does everything look infantilized?

https://assemblagenyc.substack.com/p/why-does-everything-look-infantilized

#HackerNews #infantilization #visualculture #societaltrends #designcritique #culturalcommentary

Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?

https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes

#HackerNews #AIlogos #Humor #DesignCritique #Branding #WeirdDesign

"We live in a world that is overbranded and underdesigned"

Basma Hamdy, "Teaching Graphic Design History in/of the Arab World" (online conference)

#design #craft #DesignCritique #DesignResearch

Live from our #DesignCritique 🎨

Our reviewers had a range of useful tips for the showers presenting their designs and portfolios.

#UX #ContentDesign #UserResearch #ServiceDesign #VisualDesign #LTUX #LadiesThatUX

New from Monokrom: Motorik revisits the conception of the mature modernist sans-serif, the cultural climate it grew out of, and its instant ideological demise. #modernism #designcritique #typedesign #democracy
• Motorik (typeface): https://monokrom.no/fonts/motorik
• The cult of the sans serif (essay): https://monokrom.no/fonts/motorik/design

#Business #Approaches
Scaling the design ladder: seeing like a designer · “The biggest value of design is not building better products.” https://ilo.im/15xmhi

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#ProductManagement #Design #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #DesignStrategy #DesignProcess #DesignCritique

I've been making a list (of tabs) and checking it twice… so hop into the latest #BookmarkBeat 🥁 and join me for a conversation about AI, creativity and how to fix this field we call "design"

https://open.substack.com/pub/bookmarkbeat/p/bookmark-beat-ep-18?r=1yus&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcome=false

#Design #DesignThinking #DesignCritique #AI

#Design Experts suggest a few recent #products that may stick around for generations to come. Learn more in Design Classics of the Future. #futurism #DesignHistory #DesignCritique https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/31/style/future-design-classics.html

#Design Experts suggest a few recent #products that may stick around for generations to come. Learn more in Design Classics of the Future https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/31/style/future-design-classics.html #futurism #DesignHistory #DesignCritique

User-(un)friendliness

https://journal.loupbrun.ca/n/048/
#designcritique #utilisabilité #AnthonyDunne