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Hopeful news from Apple... sounds like Meta is getting exactly the kind of designer it deserves! (perhaps the aberration that is iOS 26 'glassy' is not a coincidence!)
""If you care about design, there's nowhere to go but down after leaving Apple," said Gruber, in a lengthy post citing conversations with Apple employees. "What people overlooked is the obvious: Alan Dye doesn't actually care about design."
Gruber said that everyone he spoke to inside and outside of Apple was "happy" — if not downright "giddy" — to learn that Lemay is replacing Dye.
"Lemay is well-liked personally and deeply respected talent-wise," he said.”
#Apple #Design #GUI #iOS #Meta
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/04/john-gruber-on-alan-dye/

✍️ New post: Tweaking the Circuits
#blogtober #web #design #engineering

Tweaking the Circuits · Matthias Ott
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

$13 Tees Through September 29, 2025: #design

Who herein is using ON1 Photo RAW 2026?
Your thoughts/Reviews on why I should purchase this cool looking app?
#affinity

I am not a #web #designer, but something has stuck with me over the years.
https://josvelasco.com/basic-web-d…

Designers are always inventing new titles. Web designer, UI designer, UX designer, UX/UI designer, Product designer, UX/AI designer (???)
These are all the same!
As long as your work is mediated entirely by Figma and Jira, you are just a production artist.
Fighting with PMs over who "gets" to do strategy (usually: neither of you) won't help you. Lean into the core #design

Without UX governance, your app turns to "sludge"
Break out of the feature delivery mindset and attend to the architecture and maintenance of the product.

I miss the Longboard from the days of good web design.
#airbag #web #design

Wondering if this would be useful?
(I messed up while screen recording this & accidentally mentioned everyone 😂 — now deleted, sorry 🙇‍♂️)
#PhanpySocialDev (still on my local, not on dev site)
#Design

#HotTip #HashTag
My hot t tip on hashtags, is *make compound words*. E.g. HashTag is a thing, which could be interesting to look up, the words hash and tag, not so much. Case in point is #design <…

✍️ New post: To Affin­i­ty and Beyond
#blogtober #design #tools #affinity

To Affinity and Beyond · Matthias Ott
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

You know what I could use... permanent, ongoing #Remote #Work in the fields of #Illustration and #Design
If only more people could look at my #Portfolio at https://andycarolan.com

Now I know how #Microsoft did the #Windows #logo #design:
They laid it out with

Karuta is a collectible card bot powered by Discord that features 90k anime characters.
Working closely with the Karuta team, I designed 240 skill glyphs, and 50 status and effect icons for use within the game.
#design #illustration #portfolio #glyphs #icons

See all the blank pixels? Why does #Mastodon hide a popup menu here??
#gui #ux #design

It’s strange to watch the world ignore that it’s not just the medium that matters, but the message does too.
And by “the message” I mean both the ideas and the precise language or visuals used to communicate them.
Subtle differences in linguistic execution of the same idea in the same format can have radically opposite effects. The same applies to an image captured from a different angle or in a different style or in a different composition.
And yet it feels like most organizations and most people within them are determined to march on ignoring any consideration of subtlety and craft.
#writing #design #art #marketing

A very special "hello" to the folks who came up with HTML `title` attribute. An even more special "hello" to those who decided that an anchor's tooltip will be marked up as its "title".
🙄
#technology #design #webdev #html ##markup #sarcasm

Beautiful new release by Philipp Neumeyer and TypeMates:
Yuni Grotesque 😍
Next TDC Award incoming … 😉
#typefaces #fonts #type

TypeMates | Yuni Grotesque
Yuni Grotesque! It’s not just a compressed sans or a dismembered sibling of Yuni Slab ———— it is the second coming of the highly anticipated Yuni…

E-ID et sécurité informatique: comme il est impossible de créer un serveur qui ne peut pas être piraté, il est important de savoir que les informations ne sont pas sur le serveur. Il faudrait pirater 9 millions de téléphones pour accéder aux données. #design

Norway's largest Pokémon Trading Card Game database, asked me to help update their community site branding with a new logo, a fresh new banner and a logo for the busy forum, PokéSnakk.
#design #illustration #portfolio #Pokemon #branding

✍️ New post: Making Space
#blogtober #music #mixing #design

Making Space · Matthias Ott
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

Norway's largest PTCG database, asked me to help update their community site branding with a new logo, a fresh new banner and a logo for the busy forum, PokéSnakk.
#design #illustration #portfolio #PTCG #branding