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Mar 14, 2023
Mehmet Aydın Baytaş
Concept/ The Secret to Great Design
IDEO cofounder Bill Moggridge – known for coining the term "interaction design" – once said that "the only way to experience an experience is to experience it." On that note, I feel like the topic of today is best suited for a face-to-face discussion. I'll let you find out over at YouTube, or perhaps the podcast. Enjoy. Books That Inspired This Episode * The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin * Articulating Design Decisions by Tom Greever * Build: An Unorthodox Guide
Mar 4, 2023
Mehmet Aydın Baytaş
(Meta) Platform Update: March 2023
Our regular readers may have noticed, what drew me into the world of design was a love for objects. From my interview with Anthony Hobday: Finally, when I was in high school, my parents bought our first home. With the new home, came new furniture. Some of this furniture was more interesting. It was more expensive. It received more care. I was instructed to be careful with it... I remember asking my mom, “Why is this stuff more important?” She
Feb 20, 2023
Mehmet Aydın Baytaş
Masterclass/ Reviewing the Cosmos Landing Page
Our second Masterclass reviews the landing page of Cosmos, a "Pinterest alternative" for creatives. Starting from how I first encountered Cosmos on the website of another designer, we journey through the experience of visiting their landing page. Cosmos' website offers us many lessons in layout, typography, animation, and interaction design on the web. Highlights * "Cosmic Design" – painting with light on a black canvas * First impression of a new startup – how we discover new design tool
Feb 13, 2023
Mehmet Aydın Baytaş
Concept/ How to Design Like Visualize Value
Jack Butcher's design tools explained
Feb 3, 2023
Mehmet Aydın Baytaş
(Meta) How To Find Your Way as a Designer
Introducing Design Navigator
Jan 27, 2023
Mehmet Aydın Baytaş
(Meta) Platform Update: January 2023
We're back to our regular posting schedule, after a brief intermission to take in the new year. Even though we haven't released any new articles, videos, or podcast episodes, we have been busy during the last few weeks. We just launched our new collection of Offerings: a set of products and services by designers, for designers, to upgrade your creative work and navigate your future with ease. We previously offered an Advisory Service where we helped students, creatives, and innovators
Jan 3, 2023
Mehmet Aydın Baytaş
Event — Human After All at ATÖLYE with Guest Speaker Timmy Ghiurau
Human After All is a new event series hosted by ATÖLYE and Design Disciplin. The series explores the present state of the art as well as visions for the future around human-computer interaction, interaction design, and experience design with digital materials. Human After All brings an international cohort of experts and pioneers into ATÖLYE's IRL space in Istanbul, creating opportunities to engage and participate in meaningful dialogues. The first convening of Human After All focuses on the
Dec 30, 2022
Mehmet Aydın Baytaş
(Roundup) Editor's Choice: Profound Books I Read in 2022
I believe I'm extremely fortunate, because every morning I spend at least half an hour reading books. Every morning, one chapter, and I start the day feeling blessed – because I have the time and space to do this, and because I can afford to own books. As you might imagine, I end up reading a lot of books this way. I don't keep track of it very well, but this year I must have finished at least 20, and abandoned
Dec 20, 2022
Mehmet Aydın Baytaş
Conversation/ On the Pursuit of Visual Design with Anthony Hobday
Usually on Design Disciplin, we ask the questions. This time, our guest is the interviewer. Designer Anthony Hobday asked the questions, and I answered. We spoke about the place of visual design in modern, technology-centered design education – UX and interaction design. Anthony is a generalist product designer, particularly interested in interaction and visual design. He is an explorer in the world of design, through his many side projects, blog posts, books, and tweets. You can find other
Dec 16, 2022
Mehmet Aydın Baytaş
Conversation/ Ron Wakkary: Beyond Human-Centered Design
Ron Wakkary is a professor of design at Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology in Canada. He is also a professor, holding the Chair of Design for More Than Human-Centered Worlds, in the industrial design department at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Ron is the founder of the design research studio Everyday Design Studio (EDS). At EDS, he works with Will Odom and an evolving cast of students to produce multi-disciplinary design research that
Dec 9, 2022
Mehmet Aydın Baytaş
(Roundup) The Best Modern Books on Layouts and Grid Systems
Grid systems are a mainstay for all design disciplines – graphics, architecture, industrial products, UI, textiles, and more. It's no accident we find Josef Müller-Brockmann's classic book on the subject – the aptly titled Grid Systems in Graphic Design – in every designer's library. First published 1981, Müller-Brockmann's work was an innovative resource that taught a highly systematic approach to designers worldwide. A pinnacle of design learning in the 20th century, this is the fountain tha
Dec 2, 2022
Mehmet Aydın Baytaş, Mohammed Yarroum
(Roundup) Decentralized Design Business: 6 Companies Building the New Paradigm
To make a living as designers, we must do the "dirty work" of a service business: marketing, advertising, courting clients, devising proposals, contracts and accounting, chasing unpaid bills, keeping people happy even when we don't agree... So many famous designers – think Michael Bierut, Virgil Abloh, Dieter Rams, Jony Ive, Diane von Fürstenberg... – owe their success not to talent alone, but to mastering the business and social worlds around them. Designers who create fashion, cars, and arch
