This may be my favorite post on Medium so far.
Friday, February 1st
Friday, March 16th
The Open Brand
The Open Brand aims to help open source projects, companies, and people to develop brand definitions that can be used properly, developed quickly, and referenced consistently.
Friday, February 17th
They may just be chat bubbles, but they’re our chat bubbles
To people that say “whatever man, they’re just chat bubbles”, I don’t disagree with you. It’s a common logo concept, even for services that have nothing to do with chat. They may just be chat bubbles, but they’re our chat bubbles. They’re on our products, the banner hanging in our office, and the t-shirts we wear every day.
I commend HipChat for taking the high road here. Yes, chat bubbles as a visual metaphor have been around for ages, but I have yet to see two that are such a precise match in regard to layout and color. HipChat is not blaming Apple of anything, they’re simply posting about a problem they now face and providing transparency into how they intend to fix it.
Tuesday, December 6th
Dark Patterns: Deception vs. Honesty in UI Design
In particular, this passage does a fantastic job at articulating the hardest part of my job:
Removing dark patterns from any site involves a leap of faith. A company has to shift from a short-term quantitative measurement mindset to one that values relatively slow, steady growth of “warm fuzzy” qualitative things like brand image, credibility, and trust.
Tuesday, November 15th
In most scenarios, while a business may not need strong branding to get off the ground, its chances of becoming a smash hit are greatly magnified by investing in their brand—in the form of sharp creative strategy and great design—from the beginning.Emily Heyward, Brand Early, Not Often
Monday, August 29th
Seriously in love with this redesign right now.
Tuesday, June 21st
Brand Reversions by Graham Smith
Wednesday, March 9th
The new MIT Media Lab logo is an algorithmically generated thing of beauty. From its creators, TheGreenEyl and E Roon Kang:
The new visual identity of the MIT Media Lab is inspired by the community it comprises: Highly creative people from all kinds of backgrounds come together, inspire each other and collaboratively develop a vision of the future.
