Hacker News with Generative AI: Design

Cassette Futurism (wikipedia.org)
Cassette Futurism bezeichnet eine ästhetische Richtung im Retro-Futurismus, die von der Technologie und dem Design der späten 1970er bis frühen 1980er Jahre inspiriert ist[1][2].
Ask HN: How would you build a dev/design agency in 2025 alongside AI? (ycombinator.com)
I’m a developer and have worked remotely for 3-4 years with various product based companies like rabbithole.gg, paragraph.xyz, pimlico.io etc and for the past few months I’ve been working on a side-project of my own, it’s an open-source form builder platform like Typeform. Through my journey, I've discovered I really enjoy the craft of building products & open source softwares. It got me thinking about starting a small dev/design agency, but with a different approach.
Show HN: Make your logo liquid metal (open source) (paper.design)
Moving on from 18F (ethanmarcotte.com)
Last week, I finished my tenure as a designer at 18F.
Hybrid e-reader game console design puts a delightful twist on a retro format (creativebloq.com)
Beautiful, boring, and without soul (doc.cc)
What could be more important in life than how you make people feel?
Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers (uchu.style)
the color palette for internet loversby NetOperator Wibby
Half-Life 2 and Dishonored art lead Viktor Antonov has died (eurogamer.net)
Half-Life 2 art director and Dishonored designer Viktor Antonov has died aged just 52.
"A calculator app? Anyone could make that." Not true (twitter.com)
Show HN: I made a desk toy for people in long-distance relationships (theattentionbutton.in)
Instant connection with your special someone. Available now.
Designing Bloomberg Terminal color accessibility (bloomberg.com)
We often think we see user interfaces the same way as everyone else. However, for users with color vision deficiencies, certain color combinations can have detrimental effects on their use of the Bloomberg Terminal.
The hardest working font in Manhattan (aresluna.org)
Show HN: OpenSCAD configurable calendar 3D model (chrastecky.dev)
I love creating configurable generic models using OpenSCAD, and this is the most complex one I've created to date—an easy-to-configure calendar using some clever algorithms to render correctly.
500K Open-Licensed SVG Icons (svgrepo.com)
YouTube's New Hue (design.google)
Anyone who’s been online has been on YouTube. What began in 2005 as a quirky idea for a video-dating site has since exploded into a global powerhouse of a media platform. Today, billions tune in daily to watch everything from cat videos to cooking tutorials, gaming marathons to music performances.
What enabled us to create AI is the thing it has the power to erase (chrbutler.com)
I still have dozens of sketchbooks, many filled with ideas for logos, layouts, and other designs. These pages don’t just capture fully realized images, albeit sketches. They capture an entire process of thinking –the false starts, the unexpected discoveries, the gradual, iterative refinement of ideas. Today, those same explorations can, if you choose, be reduced to a single prompt: “Generate a minimal, modern wordmark for a SaaS product called _____.”
Visualizing data is an art (perthirtysix.com)
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Engineers don't make public squares. People do (cpf.sh)
Recreating a positive #socialmedia experience needs complex, #interdisciplinary work. It's not enough to just be technically better on the #Fediverse: we have to change social norms, too, if we're to have any hope of abating the enshittification.
Designing Backgrounds with LLMs and React (vigilant.run)
A drill bit that can also drive screws (core77.com)
This Rapid 50 object was invented by Australian industrial designer German Anchique:
Mac(OS)talgia (swallowmygraphicdesign.com)
Since COVID-19 hit us by storm, working from home has become the new normal for many, including me. Mac(os)talgia is exploring my 2020 work-from-home routine with an added touch of nostalgia. How would have the same workflow looked like with the tools of today and the limitations of yesterday. Unreliable internet, little disk storage, macOS 9 and much more...
Go Away Green (wikipedia.org)
Go Away Green refers to a range of paint colors used in Disney Parks to divert attention away from infrastructure.
Show HN: Turn Screenshots into Designs Instantly (getklippy.com)
Klippy is a powerful tool to capture screenshots and create beautiful designs instantly.
An Artist Helped Drivers with a Counterfeit Highway Sign (2023) (thedrive.com)
When Caltrans couldn't make a useful sign to direct motorists through a confusing interchange, a brave artist snuck his own onto an existing one.
Tesla Engineering breaks down the Model Y redesign (twitter.com)
Apple Prototypes Tabletop Robot with Lifelike Movements (macrumors.com)
A team of robotics researchers at Apple have designed and prototyped a lamp-like robot with lifelike movements, according to a blog post and accompanying video published last month on the Apple Machine Learning Research website. The lamp, which reminds us of the cute Pixar mascot Luxo Jr., may hint at Apple's future plans.
Hand-Crafted, Machine-Made: How we make learning games with AI (brilliant.org)
In Super Mario Bros, you don’t get a text box saying “You pressed the jump button too early.” You fall into the pit and die. That’s feedback you can feel.
Origami by Meenakshi (origamee.net)
A gallery of my designs and origami resources
Paper Apps (gladdendesign.com)
Delightfully simple and simply delightful, Paper Apps™ are a fun, smart alternative to screen time. Check out our solo games like DUNGEON, GALAXY and GOLF, as well as gamified tools like TO•DO and NUTRI•TRACK. For the full experience, we recommend grabbing a couple of Pencil Dice as well!
Bezier Curves and Picasso (jeremykun.com)
Some of my favorite of Pablo Picasso’s works are his line drawings. He did a number of them about animals: an owl, a camel, a butterfly, etc. This piece called “Dog” is on my wall: