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Connie Malamed @cmalamed

Author of a new design book for learning professionals: Visual Design Solutions. Consultant, speaker and writer for online learning and information design.

Joined December 2008
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A contest to reimagine cybersecurity stock images > ow.ly/Yfk150A4f1G

A design firm is hosting a contest to encourage people to reimagine cybersecurity stock images

No more hooded men or binary code.

theverge.com
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Check out this United Fonts of America map. Shows the fonts and the locations they were named for > ow.ly/2jKA50zMzr4
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This book looks gorgeous! Four hundred examples that track the development of information graphics from the Early Middle Ages to the end of the twentieth century. > ow.ly/CABo50vNbEE
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Chatbots vs Email: Which is better for customers? > ow.ly/nnf450vwRHI

Chatbots vs Email Marketing: Which Is the Best for Your Business? — Speckyboy

Establishing a good relationship with your customers is a crucial step in ensuring your business’ success. A good way to accomplish this is to show them you’re around when they...

speckyboy.com
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A house design that might be the answer to affordable housing shortage > ow.ly/H9Pf50vbN8O
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AI created T-shirt designs based on data from Google Creative Lab's doodle game > ow.ly/gPBL50uYXS8

AI's Latest Job? Designing Cool T-Shirts

That attractive design on your T-shirt wasn't made by some hipster artist. It was produced by a neural network.

wired.com
UI Research: Problems with popups and modal windows > ow.ly/ujxD50uQdke

Popups: 10 Problematic Trends and Alternatives

Whether modal or not, most overlays appear at the wrong time, interrupt users during critical tasks, use poor language, and contribute to user disorientation.

nngroup.com
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In 1886, the US Government Commissioned 7,500 Watercolor Paintings of Every Known Fruit in the World: Download Them in High Resolution > ow.ly/Lpnm50uQdFL
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What color represents in different industries > ow.ly/VlXg50uCj0v
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Rob Simmon@rsimmon
8 Jun 2019
Great little essay on using dashed lines in design & visualization ‘The Visual Language of Dashed Lines’ ••••••••••••• understandinggraphics.com/br… ••••••••••••• by @cmalamed via @infowetrust

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Do you ever use motion to indicate change? This article analyzes the approach > ow.ly/lKGm50us0lM

Using Motion to Express Change

A lot has been written about the concept of visualizing the user interface as a reflection of the application’s state. Ushered in the last couple years by an emergence of code libraries — leaning o…

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Collection of vintage photos at New Old Stock. No search but might be useful > ow.ly/NMkp50urjWL
The power of designing for one real person > ow.ly/iBuW50uow1M
A Review of Google's Duplex, which uses AI to mimic the human voice (some of the time) > ow.ly/4QBX50unpyg

Google’s Duplex Uses A.I. to Mimic Humans (Sometimes) (Published 2019)

In a free service, bots call restaurants and make reservations. The technology is impressive, except for when the caller is actually a person.

nytimes.com
Nike publishes a design guide for sustainability > ow.ly/36LQ50ufWiI
Art History Lovers! MOMA has a new exhibit on Abstraction, which they say was a product of network thinking. See the network diagram to explore the connections > ow.ly/v2tG30nYkac
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The more exposure you have to past, current and future design trends, styles and designers, the larger your design problem-solving toolkit. Design is History > ow.ly/1iQq30nL6Yr #interestingsite
Chart showing the evolution of the alphabet > ow.ly/pnJG30ntIK3

The Evolution of the Alphabet

From Matt Baker of UsefulCharts, this chart traces the evolution of our familiar alphabet from its Proto-Sinaitic roots circa 1850-1550 BC. It’s tough to see

kottke.org
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Illustrations from 2018 representing varied new stories in the NY Times > ow.ly/nizt30n8wkf

Opinion | The Year In Illustration 2018 (Published 2019)

Every year, The Times commissions thousands of illustrations from artists around the world. Here are some of the most notable.

nytimes.com
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Why creatives don't like open offices. In one study, nearly half the surveyed employees said that the lack of sound privacy posed a problem for them. > ow.ly/s3nj30mNBH2

Yet another way open offices are making you less productive

Surprise! Many creatives say they need quiet to do their best work. So why aren't employers giving it to them?

fastcompany.com
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