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

Just printed!
Through Witnessing
- Threading the critiquing, making, teaching of design
by Nida Abdullah , Chris Lee , Xinyi Li (Eds.)

AVAILABLE AT 25€
via setmargins.press and your local bookstore!

On design and institutional design education’s pseudo-neutral relationship with colonial capitalist world orders and what it means to teach and design today.

#setmarginspublications #graphicdesign #graphicdesigneducation #arteducation #decolonize #designcritique

🟡⚫️ “I picked a bad time to become a critic” – Elizabeth Goodspeed @domesticetch on the collapse of design critique
at @itsnicethat
#Criticism #DesignCritique #design #CreativeIndustry #GraphicDesign

https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/elizabeth-goodspeed-column-design-critique-creative-industry-060624

Is your design team already doing critiques?

Whether the answer is yes or no, I've got a handy FigJam template to help you surface better and more actionable feedback 😉

Join the more than 500 teams that have tried the world-famous Design Feedback Jam™!

https://youtu.be/6_B4mY2B4zE

#DesignCritique #DesignFeedbackJam

PS: Using the words world and famous very loosely here 😅

"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