The Friday Five 🔥

Hello makers,

This week I feature 5 links to some articles and tools to up your maker game. 

A tale of three skeuomorphs

Continuing with our iconography theme from last week, here's some more reading on icons. Shift Happens dives into the history of skeuomorphs in the context of modern computing. From trashcans to floppy disks to keyboard keys, skeuomorphs permeate our daily computing lives.
 

Icons8 Animated icons 2.0

More iconography! Icons8 released its second iteration of animated icons. Check them out. They've got full color, line art, and solid-filled styles.
 

Web Design in 4 minutes

This is a brilliant take on learning how to build a webpage from scratch. I love this approach, and if you're looking to jump right into a simple page, this is a great place to start.
 

Airport

An App Store outside of THE App Store. As a consumer, get a sneak peak at apps before they hit the official Apple App Store. As a developer, get your app in front of a large audience before you go public. The interesting thing about Airport is it seems that some apps are intentionally never going to be available on the App Store, essentially using TestFlight as its own distribution platform, which goes directly against Apple's developer policies. We'll see how this plays out.
 

Web Brutalism, Seamfulness, and Notion

Brandon Dorn takes an insightful look at usability in the modern web, with some digs at Jacob Nielsen's usability over everything approach. Specifically, how brutalist websites thumb their nose at usability altogether for the sake of being anti-art, and in the process, authentic. This is a long read, but well worth it.

Keep making, and thanks for reading! 🙌

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Until next week,
Craig 👋