This month’s focus is on supplementing my portfolio with two interaction design projects. The first, inspired by my growing political awareness, is a product for the exploration of fascist ideology. The second, a visual model for understanding the Bitcoin unspent transaction output landscape. My goal this year is to keep up my social media presence with the processes developed last year to expand my network. I will be reaching out directly to many to share my new work.

Industry

A more human web3

An open discussion on how to make more money as a UX designer

CD Projekt & Investors Who Sued the Company Enter Settlement Talks

CES 2022: RTX 3090 Ti Revealed

Chainalysis: After $26.9B in trading, are NFTs poised for a boom or crash?

Design Director Quinn Duffy Left Relic After 24 Years

Designing the Metaverse, 2021 emojis, anatomy of a design system

Figma continues to skyrocket — 63% reported it was their primary UI tool

Finding meaning in the Metaverse

How can a Design Leader design an Org? With Peter Merholz

It’s official: The Motion Awards 2021 winners are out now!

Limitations Are the New Normal

Maxon Announces Plans to Acquire Pixologic

Meta Explains The Inspiration Behind Quest Day

Monograph Grabs New Head of Engineering, Closes Series-B Round

Open source NLP is fueling a new wave of startups

Porsche designs a virtual car just for Gran Turismo 7 video game

Reasons Why a Good Web Design is Important for Your Business

Rockstar Developers Revealed the Details Behind the Cancelled Bully 2

Sony Patents the Route-Building Mechanic from Death Stranding

The 2021 Black List Is Unveiled (What Scripts Did Hollywood Love This Year?)

The Mill Recruits Three New Design & Animation Director

The ten-film shortlist for the VFX Oscar at the 94th Academy Awards

VFX supervisor Kaitlyn Yang on starting a studio, diversity in VFX, and more

What do the Metaverse and Matrix Resurrections have in common?

What’s the ROI of Design?

Why is design so critical for product-led companies?

Why Understanding Business Objectives Is Essential to Good Design

YouTube Removed Dislike Count

Motion

‘There’s nothing more psychotic than a character that is super cute but terrifying at the same’

3D Space for Easy Animation Splining and Space Switching

Basic Procedural Feather || Houdini Tutorial

Blender 3.0: Rigging and Animation Features Overview

Colorist Chat: Stephen Nakamura on Look of Tick, Tick… Boom!

Combine These Tools to Craft Better Digital FX

Create art-directable building demolition FX in Houdini

Creating a Stylized Paladin with ZBrush & Substance 3D Painter

Designing a Control Panel in Maya, ZBrush and Substance 3D Painter

Discover how to create complex vegetation for games

Embracing the Suck—Making a Short Film in the COVID Age

Five Tips for Making Your First Film from Lin-Manuel Miranda

Gnomon Guide to Creating a Game Cinematic in Unreal Engine

Guillermo del Toro Suggests What We Should Discover in the New Year

Human: Realistic Portrait Creation With Blender

ILM goes in-depth on its Amazon jungle VFX for ‘Eternals’

Imaginary Forces | “Invasion” Title Sequence for Apple TV+

JustSketchMe: Brand-New Tool to Give Depth to Your Characters

Learn How to Hack Together a DIY Gimbal

Master cinematic production techniques in Unreal Engine

Most Popular Freebies Posts of 2021

Pristine Metals: New Quixel Collection Published

Projects, Workflow & Tools of an Automotive Artist

Proximity Expression in After Effects

Real-time and comp meet: How you can use the new UnrealReader node in Nuke to enhance your real-time renderings

Screenwriting Tips from Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Separation & Compensation Principle in Strikes Animation

Spine 2D Tutorial: Animating Rain | Ripples | Splash

Ten Filmmaking Tips from Wes Anderson

The Horror of 'Suspiria' Is In Its Visual Language

The Quiet Genius of the 'Squid Game' Final Confrontation

The story-telling side of animation at a VFX studio: Weta Digital on the battle sequence in ‘Eternals’

Tools updates you may have missed in December 2021

This Substance 3D Material Generates Embroidered Patches From Images

VFX-related talks to check out at SIGGRAPH Asia 2021

Watch Edgar Wright Break Down His Favorite Scenes in His Career So Far

What Was the French New Wave in Cinema?

Why 'Dune' Was Shot on Digital, Transferred to 35mm, Then Scanned to Digital

Why Make Movies? We Discuss

Why Script Coordinator Is the Most Important Job You've Never Heard Of

Winter 2022 Grants All Filmmakers Should Know About

Working With Blender’s Curve Nodes and Fields

You Can Make a DIY Lens with Great Bokeh Using an Old Projector Lens

Interactive

A First Look at a VR Version of Cities: Skylines for Meta Quest 2

A New Linux-Powered Work-Oriented VR Headset

A year of #madewithunity for games

Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) - Explained in Plain English

Audio-Reactive Visuals in TouchDesigner For Beginners & Intermediate

Beautify Your Text With CSS Gradients!

Best Open Source alternatives for paid applications

Building an open-source extendable dashboard in Gatsby

Clip-Path Animation

Creating Advanced Trim Sheet Textures for Games

Creating Characters for Baldur's Gate 3

Creating Characters for Diablo II Resurrected

Creating Design Documentation for Games

Creating Procedural Vehicles in Unreal Engine

Dark Souls-Style Fantasy Asset Pack for Unreal

Data Visualization Libraries for Python

Data-driven strategies to spark conversions in 2022

De-identify SQL: Transforming Production Data

Dockerize your Node.js application in a few simple steps

ERC20 and BEP20 Token Generator Script | Auto Gain and Multi-Chain

Exceptions vs error values

For In and For Of in Javascript

Free Photoscanned PBR Props for Unreal Engine

Frontend unit testing

GAN for Blind Face Restoration

GITHUB CHEAT SHEET

Half-Life: Alyx Mod Brings ‘Portal’ To VR

How dark patterns can harm privacy

How I designed an abuse-resistant, fault-tolerant, zero cost, multiplayer online game

How open source is powering data sovereignty and digital autonomy

How to become a Technical Writer

How to Build a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

How to create a motherf*cking NFT using Solidity

How To: Brand Yourself As A Developer

How VR painting and animation tool Quill helped make this watercolor-like short

How-to Use Static Stability to Design a Resilient Architecture

Introduction to AWS Sagemaker

JavaScript Developer Tips

JSON Formatter - Your Lifesaver

Kickass VS Code Extensions To Make Your Life Easy

Low Code Approach To Design Highly Effective UIs

Making dynamic Twitter header

Megascans Trees Revealed

Mentoring Junior Developers

Meta Shares Oculus Hand Gameplay Sample Project for Unreal

Must have cheat sheet for WEB DEVELOPER

My Favorite Tech Stack for 2022

NFT without a Blockchain. No gas fees. No Eth. No gatekeepers

Open Source Python Projects To Join In 2022!

PHP cheat sheet (updated to PHP 8.1)

Pixelated Distortion Effect with Three.js

Python 3.10 Structural Pattern Matching (Match Case)

Python Data Science Project Ideas (+References)

Python Libraries For Machine Learning

React.js Developer in 2022

Relational VS Non-Relational Databases

Setting Up Character Animations in Far Cry 6

Static Code Analysis - A Beginner's Guide

The Architecture of Web Browsers

The state of pattern matching in Java 17

Top 4 Deep Learning Networks You Should Know

Top 5 User Experience Web Design Trends In 2022

Top 7 Platforms to Master Coding in 2022

Understanding the low-code vs no-code debate

Unfinished Houdini Tools by Simon Verstraete

Using Blueprints to Enhance Your Unreal Engine Scenes

Web Accessibility Cheat Sheet

Web dev and designer tools

What are Pure Functions and Side Effects in JavaScript?

Why Learning To Code Should Be Your 2022 Resolution

Interaction

2021 UX/Product Writing Recap

2022 Design Trends

2022 UI design trends guide

2022 UX Design Trends

A product manager’s 56 best (and stolen) insights from 2021

Adding a Persistence Effect to Three.js Scenes

Affordance and Signifiers

Applying Color Theory to Digital Displays

Beginner’s Guide to All Things Design — UI, UX, CX & SD (2022)

Behavioral Design Models — Where should you focus your MVP design?

Building with No UX

Case study: User flow uncovering — Upwork

Claymorphism in user interfaces

Claymorphism Tutorial

Coolest Products Made by Low-Volume Production | RCO Engineering

Critical Questions to Ask When Starting a UX Project

Crypto.com — Unsolicited redesign

Culture Centered UX Design

Daily web design inspirations, December 21

Daily web design inspirations, December 27

Deconstructing the psychology behind Instagram Reels

Design System Decision Tree

Designing for enterprise search

Disciplines to Study to Become a Better Designer

Do UX designers code? The answer may surprise you.

Enterprise UX Design in Practice

First 90-days as the only Product Manager!

Flaws of Windows 11 UI/UX

Front End Development Guide

Fuck screenreaders! [New Hot Design Trend] Here I come.

Hey designers and engineers, you can be friends

How I've made my digital product

How might we empower UX designers to create ethical designs

How to build your confidence as a UXer

How to Create Data-driven Product Roadmaps, and Avoid the McClane Mentality

How to deal with your design getting harshly rejected

How to Excel as a UXR Co-op at Wayfair

How to Get More UX Job Interviews

How to deal with your design getting harshly rejected

How to Make the Most of User Interviews

How to teach UX when you don’t have enough time

How typographies reveal the history of written communication

How user stories can help make design documentation easier

How Will The Metaverse Impact UX Designers?

How working at Meta changed my understanding of a product designer

How writing for health made me a better UX writer

If You are a UX Designer, How Would You Make ‘Wrinkles’ Become Old-friendly?

Illustrating the Human Factor With Asimov

Incorporating UX Research in agile-based product development

Indispensable UXer: Can You Perfect It?

Infinite Scroll Vs Pagination in UX Design

Information Architecture Still Matters: How to Organize Digital Spaces

Inspirational Websites Roundup #32

Introduction to smart notes: how to take notes efficiently

Leveling Up as a Product Designer

Making the most of your Maze usability tests

Monetization and ethics of video games

My take on Brand Experience & User Experience

My working day: Principal Designer, Kaan Lutfi Caglar

Networking in UX Design

Online Product Marketing Tips

Plain vs simple in product design

Product Design is Never an Individual Work

Product designer vs UX designer — what’s the difference?

Product Management Interview Question: Design [X] for [Y]

Product Page Design Examples and Best Practices in 2022

Psychological Principles of UI/UX Designers

Research and Data Tips for new UX Designers in 2022

Resilience and the UX philosopher

Scientific thinking vs wishful thinking in product design

Self Learning UX Design in 2022

Setting a Product Vision

Stop neglecting your content. It is as vital as your users.

System Design Interviews: A Step-By-Step Guide

Teamleader People, Process and Tools — 2021 in review

The Answer To Every UX Question Ever (2022)

The Blurred Line Between UX and Psychology

The Ethical Implications of UX Dark Patterns

The origins of product design

The Secret of Successful Why User Experience Design Useful For Your Business Work?

Top Product Management and UX Articles of 2021

To design great internal apps, you probably need to do more user research

Translating the IRL Experience to Digital — A Local Store Entering the eCommerce Realm

UI Interactions of the week #294

UX Bootcamps are expensive.

UX Design Process, Principles, And Tools.

UX focus limits design thinking

UX Gamification: Understanding the Left Brain vs Right Brain to gain and retain user

UX great resignation or re-distribution?

Ways To Validate Your MVP With Quantitative Tests

Web Design Inspiration — Marketing Websites — #132

What A Product-ive Day!: How I Met This World

What can UX Designers learn from Stand-up comedy?

What Can UX Designers Learn From The Uniquely Japanese Concept of Omotenashi?

What Does a Product Designer Actually Do?

What is a Product Strategy Framework and Why Do You Need One?

What is a Product Tree and How Does it Help Product Teams?

What is Object-oriented UX (OOUX?)

What is Product Design

What Is Usability Testing, And Do You Need It?

What UX Tools and Techniques Does Facebook Use?

When “Better” UX Research Questions Are Still Bad

Why Creating User Personas Is Crucial to UX Success

Why Deliberate Inconvenience Could Play a Part in Product Design

Why Designers Should Document Their Efforts

Why I left UX Design

Why UX Is the Best SEO Strategy

Wild Thing — Identifying Wild Fruits And Flowers. UX Case Study

Working with Fluid Typography in webflow

XDX is replacing UX.

Your key to success as a UX beginner: UX Research

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