Issue 46

WELCOME

This issue of Being Designerly has curated articles about approaching the Metaverse, empathy, best intranets, interesting visualizations, and design principles for business.

FEATURE

A Five-Step Approach To The Metaverse

Smashing Magazine recently published my article about a planned approach to the Metaverse.

The hype surrounding the metaverse is making many companies and people, including designers, experience FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out). As a designer, you may be tasked with figuring out how your company should approach the metaverse or thinking about designing for the metaverse. In this article I recommend a few steps before diving headfirst into any design for the metaverse.

EMPATHY

The role of empathy in user research and interaction design

When designing with empathy in mind, we increase our chances of meeting user needs and expectations by uncovering deeper insights. But what is empathy, really — and where does it fit into our research?

VISUAL

Visualization of the changing landscape of the most popular websites since 1993

Nothing about #digitalisation is preditable. In just a few decades the digital economy has changed, reinvents itself and disrupts our lives. It’s exciting, exhilarating and slight frightening to watch. That’s why James Eagle created this #datavisualisation of the most popular websites since 1993.

Mesmerizing!

Search Through Time (about Google search)

An interactive timeline of the evolution of Google search.

Do you remember what the first Google search looked like?

A small change to U.S. quarters is a big trend in logo design

Have you noticed a change in the front of the 2022 U.S. quarter? If you still carry around quarters, that is. A subtle change on the front of the 2022 U.S. quarters mimics a shift in the design of corporate logos. Going left used to be the norm—on currency and on corporate logos. But over the years, right-facing marks have won out. By 1960, a survey conducted by the Opinion Research Corporation showed that Americans overwhelmingly viewed rightward logos more positively than their opposites.

UX

10 Best Intranets of 2022: What Makes Them Great

The Nielsen Norman Group has been announcing the 10 Best Intranets since 2001. The 2022 Intranet Design Annual winning teams were small relative to the size of their organizations, yet they produced excellent designs quickly. Teams continued to partner with outside consultants for support in development, project management, design, research, and other areas. A wide variety of industries from only four countries were represented this year.

INSPIRATION

How to Use Design Principles to Streamline Your Business

There are lots of things in your day-to-day that suffer from bad design. David Finkel shares some examples of how you can use design principles to streamline your business and help your team become more productive and more focused on results.

UNTIL NEXT TIME

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