littlebigdetails A Blog by Floris Dekker littlebigdetails.com Little Big Details is a curated collection of the finer details of design. As Charles & Ray Eames put it: “The details are not the details; they make the product.” This is intended to be a source of inspiration. Created and curated by Floris Dekker. Alumni: Andrew McCarthy. Essential vs. nice to have detailsmicrositeswhimsydesign
Design System as Style Manual With Web Characteristics An Article by Dorian Taylor doriantaylor.com In my opinion, what makes a designer competent is precisely their ability to credibly justify their conclusions. If you can’t do this as a designer—no matter how successful your results are—then neither I nor anybody else can tell if you aren’t just picking things at random. What I am proposing, then, is no less than to make a designer’s entire line of reasoning a matter of permanent record. On the surface is the familiar set of prescriptions, components, examples and tutorials, like you would expect out of any such artifact. Attached to every element, though, is a little button that says Why? You click it, and it tells you. The proximate explanation will probably not be very satisfying, so you click on the next Why? until you get to the end, at which point you are either satisfied with the explanation, or you aren’t. The Design of Design decisionsdesignsystemsstyle