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a Product Designer with a background in Visual Design & Code

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Inspiration

Media

Research

💎 Elements of Typographic Style
💨 SPRINT
🎨 Interaction of Color
🗣️ The Art of Looking Sideways
🧐 Thinking Fast and Slow
⬛️ Grid Systems in Graphic Design
✨ A *New* Program for Graphic Design
👌 As Little Design as Possible
🔑 Elements of Typographic Style
👁️ Ways of Seeing
🌌 Universal Principles of UX
📊 Visual Display of Quantitative Information
👶 Cradle to Cradle
👯 User Friendly
🍑 Naked Statistics
🥇 Zero to One
🕴️ The User Experience Team of One
📣 Articulating Design Decisions
🗓️ A Project Guide to UX Design
🐍 Graphesis
👀 Envisioning Information
📀 Designing for the Digital Age
🕷️ Modular Web Design
🧘🏻 Digital Minimalism
🦄 The Architecture of Happiness
🙊 Things that Talk
🔮 The Responsible Object
🦠 Microinteractions
👁️‍🗨️ Visual Explanations
🔫 Set Phasers on Stun
🚀 Rocket Surgery Made Easy
👍 It's Nice That
🧝‍♀️ Godly
🥱 Not Boring Software
🧑‍💻 Creative Applications
👨‍🎓 The Public Domain Review
👽 TensorFlow
👓 Graphic Design Readings
⚪️ Casey Reas
😍 r/dataisbeautiful
🆔 The Brand Identity
🔠 Letterform Archive
🧰 IDEO Design Kit
🐶 CSS Tricks
💦 Flowing Data
📈 Google Trends
🧑‍💻 Hacker News
🔪 Counter Print
🐣 Eloquent Javascript
🧑‍⚖️ Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
🕰️ Wayback Machine
🟡 OER Commons
🌼 Growth Designers
😈 Deceptive Patterns
🐵 Blender
🖊️ MIT Press
🇨🇭 Swiss Miss
🍮 The Pudding
🤓 Google Material Design
📘 Design at Meta
🍎 Apple Human Interface Guidelines
🌐 W3C Design System
⚫️ IBM Carbon Design System
🇬🇧 GOV.UK Design System
🪟 Microsoft Fluent 2
🐙 Github Primer Design System
🦉 Wise Design System
🐜 Ant Design System
🧩 Elastic UI
🐻‍❄️ Shopify Polaris
🌧️ BBC Global Experience Language
📌 Thumbprint Design System
🏔️ Atlassian Design System
🚘 Uber Base Design System
🎵 Spotify Design
Ⓜ️ MUI React Component Library
❓ Quora QBlocks UI Kit
🦊 Firefox Acorn Design System
🌱 Segment's Evergreen Design System
🏨 Booking.com Design
🩻 Nord Design System
🌎 World Food Program UI Kit
💜 Sigma Design System
🚘 Volvo Design System
⚡️ Salesforce Lightning Design System
💹 Tencent Enterprise Design System
📎 Twilio Paste Design System
💼 Dell Design System
👥 Nielsen Norman Group
🛒 Baymard Institute
🟢 Design, Play, Change
🌝 Observable
💌 Grid Lover
📓 Dictionary of Online Behavior
😴 ZDog
🌹 D3.js
🗃️ openFrameworks
🤗 Hugging Face
🏃‍♂️‍➡️ GSAP
🐛 Processing
😘 Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute
🍬 Figma Resource Library
🌳 Interaction Design Foundation
🏃‍♀️ Runway ML
🐞 P5.js
🏆 AWWWARDS
💭 Graphic Thought Facility
🕵️ Polygraph
😳 Refero
🧓 Edward Tufte
👷 New York Times R&D
🏗️ OMA
😀 Steven Heller
⛺️ A-Frame Registry
📱 Mobbin
🪲 Beeple Crap
🥲 Little White Lies
🧑‍🎨 Juxtapoz
🤖 Zach Lieberman
🧑‍🎨 Juxtapoz
🌄 Generated Space
💥 BOOOOOOOM
⭐️ Pentagram
🤔 Under Consideration
📝 Dear Data
☺️ Don Norman: Good Design Talk
🎮 Jonathan Blow: Game Design Talk
🤔 Jamal Nichols: Mental Models Talk
🌞 Creative Mornings
🙂 Paula Scher: Great Design is Serious
🚂 The Coding Train
👾 HACKADAY
🐇 Product Hunt
🐵 Experience Designed Podcast
🔊 Rochelle King: Data and Design Talk
👨‍🎨 Abstract: The Art of Design
📖 Smashing Magazine
🚜 Michael Bierut: Design Indaba Talk
🧢 Aaron James Draplin: Awwwards Talk
💁🏻‍♀️ Hah Phan: Product Innovation Interview
🦾 John Maeda's Cozy AI Kitchen
😁 Lenny's Podcast
🎙️ NN/g UX Podcast
🦸 IDEO Creative Confidence Podcast
🫣 99% Invisible Podcast
🐢 Ologies
😶‍🌫️ Hidden Brain
👤 Invisibilia
❗️ Stuff You Should Know
📻 Radiolab
🧬 Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell
🧑‍💻 Free Code Camp
🧱 Built By Civilization