Web Design: Can You Take Me Higher?

Want your next open position here? You should! 45,000 very qualified, discerning, cool readers will see it and a slightly smaller number of those will apply! Go here and place your ad [sitepoint].

Caught in the Crunch

Design/UX/product

Logo Crunch [brandmark] creates versions of your logo that are more legible at lower resolutions. Using AI, of course.

How to make a career change from graphic design to UX design [medium].

A teardown of the Dropbox onboarding process [useronboard].

The relationship between gamification and modern persuasion [uxdesign].

Moving Letters [tobiasahlin] is a collection of type animation effects made with CSS and anime.js. No blink or marquee here — they’re surprisingly tasteful.

Elementary, My Dear Watson

News/business

Google is getting serious about hardware, announcing a new Pixel phone, Google Home devices, a Pixelbook, AI driven headphones and cameras [thenextweb] and more.

Adobe announces new Elements versions of Photoshop and Premiere [9to5mac]. They use content intelligence and memory curation to make previously complicated tasks accessible to average users.

A self-driving taxi service has just launched [theverge] for members of a retirement community.

The Book of Life on becoming an entrepreneur [thebookoflife].

Churn is the single most important metric for subscription services [pakman].

Another Stone in the Wall

Everything else

Drowning in a sea of tabs and windows? Station [producthunt] wants to unify your web apps into a more productive interface.

Check out how great this short from Neill Blomkamp looks [eurogamer], even though it's rendered in real-time in Unity.

The astronomy photographer of the year for 2017 [kottke]. I’m a sucker for these.

A fill-in-the-blanks investor update template [hackernoon] for busy founders. Probably don’t take this too seriously.

Finally, a medieval cover band playing Another Brick In The Wall [nothingcooler], because why not?

That's it for your Thursday Versioning! I'll see you tomorrow, when I'll be sharing videos of my new medieval cover band performing all of Creed's greatest hits. Maybe even a few Nickelback masterpieces. Get pumped.