Facing Our Interfaces: Matías Duarte, Google
Matías Duarte on why the interface's only limitation is imagination... and battery life.
Liam Spradlin
interdisciplinary designer focused on the future + philosophy of the interface
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📚 Read This: What Does Your UI Say To Your Users?
New on the Material Blog: a post from Nico Thornley, Brenton Simpson, Julia Feldman, and Michael Gilbert about research the team did to determine how users perceive Material 3 against Material 2.
Metaphor and Transformation in the Interface
The way metaphor permeates the interface points to a continued struggle to live with the complexity introduced by the very media we’ve created to manage it.
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☕️ Doubleshot • Reframing Design Rationale
The first doubleshot newsletter, with practical advice on reframing your design rationale and a bit about the theory of metaphor in the interface.
Tips
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📚 Read This: Jarrett Fuller on Simple Tools
The irony of recommending this essay on Interface Café, which is hosted on Ghost, a CMS platform, is not lost on me.
An Updated Primer on Android Navigation
Learn how to use Material components to create the smoothest navigation for your app.
Welcome to Interface Café
A place to share thoughts, tips, and knowledge about design toward a better practice.
Theory
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📚 Read This: “What Things Do” by Peter-Paul Verbeek
A quick book recommendation: What Things Do, Philosophical Reflections on Technology, Agency, and Design by contemporary philosopher of technology Peter-Paul
Practice
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How to Find Device Metrics and dp Resolution for Any Screen (Updated)
If Googling doesn’t give you the numbers you need, or you just want to show off your math skills, here’s a relatively easy way to determine the relevant metrics for your designs.
📺 Watch This: How Grade Impacts Readability
In this video, Material researchers unpack their findings about how grade adjustments impact readability in a variety of settings.
Theory
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Reshaping our expectations for generative design
From Le Corbusier to Figma, “design is, at its core, a permanently subject-oriented discipline.”
Designing Better Code: Connie Shi and Matvei Malkov, Google Material Design
On what makes software engineering a true creative practice.