Content for fun vs. content for purpose: designing for two distinct modes of consumption

From AI assistants to digital platforms, how can we design for rapid mode switching in real life? Reflections about utilitarian and experiential content and why understanding both matters.

Automattic Design
✩ Content for fun vs. content for purpose: designing for two distinct modes of consumption 
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Content for fun vs. content fo...
Content for fun vs. content for purpose: designing for two distinct modes of consumption

From AI assistants to digital platforms, how can we design for rapid mode switching in real life? Reflections about utilitarian and experiential content and why understanding both matters.

Automattic Design
Font Spectrum is making futuristic typefaces that shift to make new forms

At this Amsterdam-based foundry, things go from readable weights to “decorative extremes” with imaginative methods of integrating motion.

Sometimes work seems to be pure chaos. Hopefully 2024 didn't start chaotic for you. 🫠

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https://whitewords.io/blog/entropy-in-ux-design/

3 powerful tips to avoid entropy in UX design | UX blog

Learn how to work absolutely organized as a UX designer and how to deal with entropy in UX design.

Marina Kraus :: Product and UX Designer
Mini Motorways

Updates: Cars & Drivers

Luke Dorny

NP #32: Nada Surf’s cover of the Pixies’ “Where Is My Mind?”

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Surf

Nowplaying: This is about the Nada Surf cover of the Pixies' track *Where Is My Mind*. Oh, my, and look at that…

Luke Dorny