These are articles, books, videos and podcasts that I find myself returning to over and over again. They have shaped how I think about my work.
Life
Design
- Butterick’s Practical Typography
- The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman
- What Screens Want, Frank Chimero
- Don’t Make Me Think, Steve Krug
- Designing for Subway Legibility, Zach Gage
Storytelling
- The evolution of NPR’s picture stories
- Ira Glass on audio storytelling
- The Secret Formula, Startup Podcast
- Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud
- Considerations for Expressive Simulation, Anna Kipnis
- How I Make Explorable Explanations, Nicky Case
- We need fast design that is faster and slow design that is slower
- How to make dope shit on the internet Part 1: Data, Part 2:Design, Part 3: Storytelling