design

The tool I use for all visual design work, including video thumbnails and site mockups. Collaborative, fast, and the auto-layout system is genuinely well-designed. Proof that design tools can be as thoughtful as the things made with them.

• design
• tools
• software

The best book on how design decisions compound over time. Changed how I think about every structure I walk into. Brand's layers of change framework (site, structure, skin, services, space plan, stuff) applies to far more than architecture.

• architecture
• design
• systems