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Immaterial Design: Harsh Notes on the New Gmail Design

Feb 13, 2019
4 min

Immaterial Design: Harsh Notes on the New Gmail Design

The new Gmail design impacted 1.4 billion users worldwide last fall. From the new design’s large, bubble-shaped attributes and “intuitive” (or maybe intrusive and patronizing?) additions – like options to snooze or nudge, and smart replies – the overhaul was dramatic. The immediate proliferation of guides instructing users on how to disable as many of the new features as possible to recreate Classic Gmail may offer a telling critique of the ‘update.’ Here, one writer and desi

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Tiger Rag: Attitudes toward Hyphenation and Rag Settings

Apr 24, 2018
13 min

Tiger Rag: Attitudes toward Hyphenation and Rag Settings

Register today for the free course “5 Skills Every Design Needs to Know.” Paul Shaw investigates the history of justified, flush left, and rag right settings, and takes a look at contemporary hyphenation practices. Plus, he addresses the modern-day aversion to hyphens in the design world. This essay began as an inquiry into contemporary hyphenation practices in books and magazines, but quickly spread to include an investigation of the history of justified and flush left, rag

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On Disruption and Complacency in Design Today

Feb 10, 2017
3 min

On Disruption and Complacency in Design Today

A film review and a war cry for making design stand for something bigger: Explore how a narrative lens on design will drive more ambitious work and drive change where it actually matters. The film Design Disruptors (2016, directed by Matt D’Avella) is now making the rounds, showcasing over-relaxed, uninspired, numbingly-polite and predominantly white design managers at very large companies in hopes that we will indirectly associate them with the film’s title. Editorial style

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