Anthony Hobday█

Interface obsessed product designer. Email, X, LinkedIn

1 paid service

  1. Design feedback

24 blog posts

  1. Notes on software quality
  2. Career advice for designers
  3. Lists of design books
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  1. Various interface design classifications
  2. Values to stress-test interfaces
  3. How I think about visual design trends
  4. Design folk wisdom
  5. Universal creative techniques
  6. A designer group interview
  7. When it’s safe to copy something
  8. How I think about novelty
  9. Uncommon but useful design terms
  10. How I define “interface design”
  11. How interfaces change with frequency of use
  12. Why designers don’t talk about interface design
  13. Evidence that designers don’t talk about visual design
  14. Others’ classification of software design
  15. Ways that software design is different
  16. My definitions of “beauty” and “taste”
  17. Classical and expressive aesthetics
  18. The ways software competes
  19. Things I learned about visual design
  20. Where novel visual styles come from
  21. The best WWDC videos about interface design

13 side projects

  1. Visual design rules you can safely follow
  2. Complementary, an interface design podcast
  3. Quick start guides to interface design topics
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  1. A YouTube channel for website design reviews
  2. A collection of visual design techniques
  3. A list of every visual design concept
  4. A list of every interaction design concept
  5. Interviews about visual design
  6. Anonymous interviews with designers
  7. Background/container colour combinations
  8. Quotes about design
  9. Notes on design books
  10. Superfamilies on Google Fonts

10 appearances

  1. Dive Club interview
  2. #1 spot on Hacker News
  3. Interface design class for Hyper Island
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  1. Learn UI Design blog guest post
  2. UX Design Weekly newsletter feature
  3. Multiple HeyDesigner newsletter features
  4. Design By Numbers newsletter feature
  5. Design Discipline interview
  6. Q&A with UX Talks
  7. Design Downtime podcast appearance

6 books

  1. How to improve your visual design
  2. What is good interaction and visual design?
  3. What is simple web design?
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  1. What is good craftspersonship?
  2. Come up with design ideas alone
  3. Design interesting one-column websites

3 case studies

  1. Visual design and interaction prototypes
  2. An AI meeting notes feature in Superthread
  3. A collaboration feature for Beauhurst

2 other interests

  1. I run Before I Play, a video game tip wiki
  2. I design solo tabletop games