New Plugin: Ratio Rulers 📐
Recently, I've been playing around with different ratio-based grids, so I made a quick little plugin.
Tips
Quick advice, recommendations, and links.
📺 Watch my I/O session on customizing Material Design
My colleague Bradley and I had the chance to film a quick session going over the upcoming customization features that will unlock broader expression using Material components.
📚 Check out this new Are.na channel about the interface
Follow along if you want to see the ideas influencing my work as I find them.
☕️ Interface as Environment • Doubleshot
Part of the work I’ve been doing during the hiatus centers on the role of the interface as an environmental facet of our lives.
Google Sans Flex is Now on Google Fonts
Google's brand font is now open-source on Google Fonts.
A Reading List for Individualized and Adaptive Design
It’s (still) summer, which is the perfect time for a reading list.
True is Better Than New: David Reinfurt, A *Co–* Program for Graphic Design
How individual perspective is the real driver of design as a practice.
📚 (Don’t?) Read This: Bring Out Your Design Dead
No matter what’s happening, the design community cyclically experiences its own emotional, intellectual, or technological “death.”
📚 Read This: Fictional Computers and Their Themes
A good reminder that less about the current technological moment is as new as we sometimes think.
📚 Read This: “How humans became microplastic” on UnHerd
Plastic promised a world in which our inventive capabilities would be unbound and infinite. It’s easy to hear an echo (or a warning voice) of those proclamations today.
📚 Read This: “Neural networks & the architectural imagination” on Recessed Spaces
A piece of architectural criticism focused on the role of generative AI in the imagination of architecture and the ways that the technology elides questions about whose work went into the image.
📺 Watch This: The Techsploder Podcast
I recently got to sit down with my old friend and tech-world colleague Jason Howell on his new show “Techsploder.”
📚 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.
📚 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.
📚 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 Verbeek. If you'
📺 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.
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