Saturday Links: Design Edition
Saturday Links: Design Edition
Here are the most interesting links this week from our design department. Thanks to Matt Quintanilla. Collated by Chloe Olewitz. (Normally these are Friday links but the editor was in meetings all day.)
- “Designing for Happy Companies”
Meg Lewis talks about her neurological inability to experience negative emotions, and how she has used unique traits like her superhuman positivity to shape her work (and life) as a designer. (via Maxim Siebert) - “The illusion of life: an SVG animation case study”
“This is an impressive tutorial for building complex animated illustrations with SVG. It’s mostly a ‘bookmark for the future’ technical piece, unless you happen to be in the middle of building a complex animated illustration.” (via Neil Renicker) - “Designing for Google Cardboard: physiological considerations”
“Google has a writeup on the physiological considerations of VR that everyone should view if they’re considering doing 360 videos or Virtual Reality.” (via Darrell Hanley) - “Transit Maps: Apple vs. Google vs. Transit App”
Some cities boast transit maps created by the industry’s most venerated designers, but designing a single transit map that includes every single city in the world is a whole other kind of project. (via Kevin Ngao) - “Discover the action around you with the updated Google Maps”
“This looks like a lovely update to Google Maps. It’ll be interesting to see if the more muted color scheme will actually be a usability improvement for most people. Critical data like roadways and neighborhoods in dense urban areas certainly seem more intelligible.” (via Neil Renicker)