https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSBxrs2nqck

How does the artist brain work? In this video I try to find that out, with the help of some pretty special guests and collaborators. Thanks to Lenovo and Int...

Anatomy Of The Artist Brain

From design tools, to our design process, to the user behaviors that will change the way we design — a list of what to expect for User Experience (UX) Design in the next year.

The State of UX in 2025

https://www.densediscovery.com/issues/324

The proliferation of AI means we need a new word.

It’s time to retire the term “user”

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/04/19/1090872/ai-users-people-terms/

https://behavioralscientist.org/are-we-too-impatient-to-be-intelligent/

themarginalian.org/2024/10/22/marginalian-18

No, it’s not “nice to have”. A case study of the financial impact of smart design decisions in payment systems.

Yes, design can save you millions

Six designers tackle construction waste, turning discarded materials into innovative designs for a more beautiful and sustainable future.

Wonderful Waste Documentary Series

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1WZky7MVeY-Wkmpq7P9NNQMrjrVynHMf

creativeminds.metalabel.com/2025-calendars?variantId=1

https://1984design.notion.site/d0c371d7a63c4493b264e0c6534d316c?v=aca73108c2a247d4a712462dc9b0ac20

👾 🙌 

Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSBxrs2nqck

📚 Added new books to the library.

The Future of the Responsible Company
by Yvon Chouinard & Vincent Stanley

Tiny Experiments
by Anne-Laure Le Cunff

The Artist’s Way
by Julia Cameron

https://links.1984.design/books

Design as Art — Bruno Munari

”The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.”

📚 Added to the library
https://links.1984.design/books

What should be the *official* icon for AI features in digital products? 

The "3 sparkly stars" icon has been widely adopted...but what do consumers think?

I migrated my website to Read.cv under my custom domain, shut down my server, and archived the code. 

This felt good because mine was outdated, and managing the content on Read was smooth, plus integrated with the platform.

Exploring options moving forward, not seem cool :/

The creative process ✨

Discover — Read a lot. Observe the world. Notice.
Collect — Record anything that strikes you.
Generate — Build on your notes to brainstorm ideas.
Combine — Connect previously unconnected ideas.
Refine — Edit, edit, edit. Select the best.

Inspiration is whatever you choose it to be. What inspires you and how you find that inspiration is and will always be unique to you, so explore, learn, experiment, fail, and try again because there's nothing more beautiful than finding your own.

Recreating my balcony garden in pixels 🪴

90's Sunday.. Missing the good old days, when things were simple and the world was less in shit. Civilization and technology advanced, and societies went backward in culture and communication.

📺 Power on
90s.myretrotvs.com

Happy holidays folks. 🎄 Wish you all the best and a successful new year without going crazy naming files.

"We're optimizing our flows for clicks, not clarity. We stopped building tools and started building engagement traps."

https://trends.uxdesign.cc

Lost in Netflix's endless library? 

Today I learned that their vast library would take three and a half years of nonstop viewing to see in full.

I never understood why WeTransfer is still forcing us to use that tiny miny modal to put important information, which is the whole purpose of the product and screen.

Never trust Adobe CC files! Those folks can't make anything right. Syncing is unreliable. I got stressed out on a critical printing deadline while uploading 50GB of data. Saved at the last minute uploading it to G Drive.

What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Kai invited me to be a guest on Dense Discovery, an inspiring publication that I love reading. If you are not following already, highly recommend subscribing. Good reading, packed with tons of information and resources.

https://www.densediscovery.com/issues/324

David Lynch is gone. I just read the email; now you are all leaving. :/ What happened to feeling good all the time?

It’s time to retire the term “user”

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/04/19/1090872/ai-users-people-terms/

📕 Reading: Design for Real Life 
by Eric Meyer & Sara Wachter-Boettcher

"You can't know every user, but you can develop inclusive practices that support a wider range of people. This book will show you how."

The web version is free.
→ dfrlbook.com

"The traveler hasn't reached his final destination."

Soul Kitchen (2009)
Director: Fatih Akın

When Clubhouse was first released as invite-only, I was left out and pissed. So created Craphouse, and developed an open audio space for chatting, or any crap people wanted to talk about.

It was built on Jam, code repo is on GitHub.

https://github.com/boraoztunc/craphouse

A photo is a single-frame story that simply relies on 3 key elements: composition, connection, and light. 📷

Design Literacy in the Age of  Intelligent Automation 

terrain.com/design-literacy

There is a beauty in the chaos, a certain order in the mess.

Reading: Are we too impatient to be intelligent?

→ https://behavioralscientist.org/are-we-too-impatient-to-be-intelligent/

In the end you discover that you make the path of life only by walking it with your own two feet under the over story of your own consciousness.

18 Life-Learnings from 18 Years of The Marginalian
→ themarginalian.org/2024/10/22/marginalian-18

Severance, the series will premier with its second season on January 17, 2025.

I stumbled on this design online but no idea if it is official. Always liked the usage of grain/noise like this.

Designers have to defend the value of innovation, especially when that innovation involves a new system that’s dramatically different. You need to align the new approach with both:

— business goals
— user needs
— backing it up with research and data.

📽️ Watching: Wonderful Waste Documentary Series

Six designers tackle construction waste, turning discarded materials into innovative designs for a more beautiful and sustainable future.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1WZky7MVeY-Wkmpq7P9NNQMrjrVynHMf

"He had his demons, but they never stopped him from searching for beauty. Because when you find beauty, you find inspiration."

✧ 2025 Art Calendar Collection ✧

I've just released minimal art calendars that feature master paintings and raw photos from the Bauhaus school. Ready for you to print. 

Grab them @metalabel

🗓️ creativeminds.metalabel.com/2025-calendars?variantId=1

The 2025 Art Calendar Collection I've released on Metalabel is today's pick ☺️

→ metalabel.com

Why Design is Hard — Scott Berkun

✓ Added to the library

https://1984design.notion.site/d0c371d7a63c4493b264e0c6534d316c?v=aca73108c2a247d4a712462dc9b0ac20

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