Reading List - Issue No. 1
/Here’s a curated list of design-related resources that have impacted me for the last couple months.
1.) Developing Your Eye for Design - Jonathan Z. White
I discovered this article 2 months ago and it’s saved on my bookmarks tab ever since. I’ve went back to it several times whenever I need inspiration or a foundation of where to start. It’s a guide on how to start looking at the world through the lens of a designer. This includes questions to ask yourself. Being able to ask and answer questions about the world around you can help sharpen your design eye.
2.) Hack Design
Free 50 lessons from designers in the field. Very informative and in-depth. Covers topics from user experience to graphic design principles. One of the best all-in-one resources I’ve seen for designers.
A blog/portfolio by product and visual designer, Andrew Kim. As a product design student at Art Center, he redesigned Microsoft’s brand as one of his projects, gaining him extensive media coverage. He currently works at Microsoft working on the HoloLens. Out of all the design portfolios I’ve seen, his remains my favorite. In-depth and a clear thought process, yet visually pleasing in all forms, I highly recommended checking out his previous work for ideas on how to communicate your own projects. Great example of “Show, don’t tell.”
Julie Zhuo is a product design VP at Facebook. She is also a prolific writer on Medium and I’ve learned something from most, if not all, of her articles. Her posts are honest, sincere, concise, and vulnerable. They shed a light on the tech industry and I love hearing about her journey in the field.
5.) Coursera
I’ve taken 3 design courses and all of them were great. I particularly recommend Scott Klemmer, professor at UCSD, for the human-centered design and design principles course.