Smart Interface Design Patterns
• Vitaly Friedman
Martina Flor’s Open Studio
• Martina Flor
194. Lettering vs Calligraphy vs Type Design – What’s the Difference?
📥 Grab my free guide Lettering Success Secrets: https://martinaflor.com/guidePeople often confuse lettering, calligraphy, and type design—and honestly, I get why. I used to use the terms interchangeably too. In this video, I break down the real differences between the three, why it matters, and how to figure out which one fits your creative style best.I’ll also share a bit about how these disciplines overlap—and why you don’t have to choose just one.Let me know in the comments which one you’re most drawn to!📥 Download Lettering Success Secrets here: https://martinaflor.com/guide#lettering #calligraphy #typedesign #martinaflor #typography
Smart Interface Design Patterns
• Vitaly Friedman
Design Guidelines For Better Notifications UX
I’m trying to help a client pick a good UI framework they can start their product with, but ultimately grow into their own design system and component library. They have started development with React, which isn’t surprising, but they are also open to using a more framework-agnostic approach in the future.
Any suggestions for a really mature and solid, themeable framework as a starting point? Chakra UI? Ark UI? Radix?
In 1994 the UK voted the widget inside a can of Guinness as Invention of the Year.
The Internet came second.
Yes, yes, I know that far more people were probably drinking Guinness than using the interwebs back in 1994, but c'mon... 😂
“I don’t think there’s anything in principle, that stops machines from being conscious. […] I don’t see why they shouldn’t have emotions. […]
I think they really are thinking. And I think as soon as you make AI agents, they will have concerns.”
A wild interview with Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel Prize winner and “the Godfather of AI”, especially towards the end…
A gate can be really useful for live sound (e.g. when you’re doing a live stream) to cut out unwanted background noise or hum with low latency when you're not speaking. Boz Digital’s “Big Beautiful Door 2” even combines this with a four-band EQ for the closed and open sections and is currently on sale ($49 - 50% with BOZ-JULY-4). I just couldn’t resist… 😅
https://www.bozdigitallabs.com/big-beautiful-door-2/
The American System of Democracy has Crashed:
https://www.theverge.com/policy/697301/trump-supreme-court-founding-fathers-july-4
Martina Flor’s Open Studio
• Martina Flor
193. How to Start a Career in Lettering Design - Martina Flor
Berliners: “Sorry, cache only.”
Move fast an cache things.
Cache it till you make it.
The early bird caches the worm.
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got caching.
Cache me if you can.
Cache Royale.
Big Beautiful Cache.
Ok, I’ll stop it now.
My Mac ran out of disk space (1 TB). Which felt … a bit weird and unexpected. So I opened up GrandPerspective to have a look…
Oh wait, what’s that?
/Users/matthiasott/Library/Caches/Adobe/AfterEffects is taking up how much space?
317G?!? 😅
That’s a lot of cache!
I adorned my 'GNARLYBOT' sculpture for Gromit Unleashed 3 with a whole host of graphics paying homage to some of the great skateboarding graphics of the 70's & 80's! See if you can get all the references...
Hear me out: an Aesop Rock lyrics bot. 😊