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🎨 Para los que dibujan, esta subida está tremenda.
Anatomía y figura humana, dibujo a pluma y lápiz, animales, entintado de cómics, caligrafía, lettering y diseño de logos. ✏️🖋️
Mucho material para aprender técnicas y afilar la mano. 👇
comparticomics.lat/bibliotec…
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Six Adobe InDesign templates I downloaded years ago and still use for real work today, tested and reviewed by a working designer. weandthecolor.com/six-adobe-…
#adobeindesign #design #graphicdesign #printdesign #indesigntemplates
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Tú dices "Septiembre, sorpréndeme" pero Sylvia Plath dijo "Se acerca septiembre... Siento que me debo un breve respiro de ocio y no tener prisas. No puedo enfrentar la realidad muerta."
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Scientists have identified a reversal of the long-standing Flynn effect—the roughly 200-year trend of rising average intelligence (measured via IQ and cognitive tests) across generations.
For the first time in modern recorded history, Generation Z (born roughly 1997–2012) shows lower performance than previous generations in key cognitive domains, including attention, memory, literacy, numeracy, executive function, problem-solving, and general IQ—despite spending more years in formal education than ever before.
Neuroscientist and educator Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath, PhD, MEd, testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on January 15, 2026, highlighting this shift. In his written testimony, he stated that cognitive development in children across much of the developed world has stalled or reversed over the past two decades, with declines evident in international assessments (e.g., PISA, TIMSS) and other large-scale data starting around the mid-2000s and accelerating post-2010.
Horvath attributes the primary driver not to reduced schooling, but to the widespread integration of digital screens and educational technology (EdTech) in classrooms. He argues that human brains evolved for deep, focused learning through face-to-face interaction and sustained attention, not fragmented skimming or constant task-switching encouraged by devices.
Key points from his testimony include:
- Teens now spend over half their waking hours on screens, with significant portions in school involving computers or tablets—often leading to off-task behavior and shallower processing.
- Evidence from meta-analyses and national/international studies shows a consistent pattern: higher classroom screen exposure correlates with weaker outcomes in reading, math, science, and higher-order reasoning.
- Digital tools may aid narrow, repetitive skill practice in controlled settings, but in core academic contexts, they tend to reduce depth of understanding, retention, and critical thinking.
Horvath describes this as a "structural mismatch" between human cognition and how digital platforms are designed (to capture and fragment attention), warning that unchecked EdTech adoption risks long-term harm to workforce skills, innovation, and societal reasoning.
[Horvath, J. C. (2026). Written testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. U.S. Senate]
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The design problems you’ll face in the future may require very different skills from the ones designers have traditionally been taught. 🎓
Don Norman, Father of User Experience Design, describes four types of challenges designers increasingly need to be prepared for: performance, systemic, contextual, and global challenges.
Some call for traditional design craft and technical expertise. Others require you to understand complex systems, conduct research, work across disciplines, co-design with communities, and navigate cultural and political realities. 🌍
The more complex the problem, the broader the skills designers need to address it.
As Don Norman reminds us, designers don’t need to have all the answers. They need to keep learning, think in systems, observe carefully, and work with the people they’re designing for. 💡
So, where do your skills fit today, and where would you like them to take you next?
👉 Read the full article, The 4 Types of Designers Who Will Thrive in 2030 (And the One Most Schools Still Ignore):
🔗 ixdf.org/literature/article/…
#UXDesign #UserExperience #DesignThinking #DesignEducation #ProductDesign
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Ted Lasso meeting the legendary Jorge Campos wearing his iconic Mexico goalkeeper kit. 🧤
A crossover nobody expected to see. 🤝🏼❤️
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Sites on the internet for design inspiration.
Web Design → curated.design
Landing Pages → landing.love
Saas Websites → saaspo.com
Navbar → navbar.gallery
CTA Sections → cta.gallery
Animation → appmotion.design
Mobile Apps → mobbin.com/?via=abraham
Brands → rebrand.gallery
Icons → hugeicons.com/?via=Abraham
Design Systems → component.gallery
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¿Te imaginas escribir tu nombre con paisajes vistos desde el espacio? La NASA lanzó una página interactiva que convierte imágenes satelitales de la Tierra en letras y se ve increíble ✨ buff.ly/m2hEVHe
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📖 La sociedad del cansancio — Byung-Chul Han (2010)
DESCARGA GRATUITA u-cursos.cl/facso/2019/2/ANT…
Prólogo
"El mito de Prometeo puede reinterpretarse considerándolo una escena del aparato psíquico del sujeto de rendimiento contemporáneo, que se violenta a sí mismo, que está en guerra consigo mismo. En realidad, el sujeto de rendimiento, que se cree en libertad, se halla tan encadenado como Prometeo. El águila que devora su hígado en constante crecimiento es su álter ego, con el cual está en guerra."
🧵1/8
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Aphex Twin’s Logo Wasn’t Drawn — It Was Engineered: The Paul Nicholson Story.
Paul Nicholson is a British graphic designer whose career spans music branding, typography, and visual identity work, most famously for his long-standing collaboration with Aphex Twin. Beginning in the early 1990s, Nicholson developed a reputation for clean, conceptual mark-making that merges technical drafting discipline with experimental visual language. His Aphex Twin logo became a defining example of this approach: a carefully constructed geometric form composed of controlled curves, and calculated negative space. Rather than sketching a loose symbol, Nicholson engineered the mark using measured proportions so that every stroke thickness and angle relates harmoniously to the whole. Beyond this iconic design, he has produced record sleeves, typography systems, and visual identities for electronic music labels and artists, consistently emphasizing structural clarity and symbolic strength. His work demonstrates how minimal shapes, when precisely constructed, can carry strong cultural meaning and remain visually durable across decades of reproduction and reinterpretation.
#logodecks
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🚨RESEARCHERS JUST MATHEMATICALLY PROVED THAT AI LAYOFFS WILL DESTROY THE ECONOMY.. AND EVERY CEO ALREADY KNOWS IT.. BUT NONE OF THEM CAN STOP..
Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper called "The AI Layoff Trap"..
They proved something terrifying..
Every company replacing workers with AI is also firing its own customers.. Every laid-off employee is someone who used to spend money.. When enough people lose their jobs.. Nobody can afford to buy anything.. And the companies that fired everyone go bankrupt selling products to an economy with no purchasing power..
Every CEO can see this coming.. The math is obvious.. Fire workers.. Lose customers.. Lose revenue.. Collapse..
But here's the trap..
No company can afford to stop..
If you don't automate.. Your competitor will.. They cut costs.. Undercut your prices.. Steal your market share.. And you die anyway..
So every company automates.. Knowing it's collectively suicidal.. Because the alternative is dying alone while everyone else survives..
It's a Prisoner's Dilemma.. And the researchers proved it mathematically..
The numbers are already stacking up..
Block cut nearly half its 10,000 employees this year.. CEO Jack Dorsey said AI made those roles unnecessary and that "within the next year, the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion"..
Salesforce replaced 4,000 customer support agents with AI..
Goldman Sachs deployed an AI coder that lets one senior engineer do the work of a five-person team..
Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off in 2025 alone.. AI was cited as the primary driver in more than half the cases..
80% of US workers hold jobs with tasks susceptible to AI automation..
And here's what should scare policymakers..
The researchers tested every proposed solution..
Universal Basic Income.. Doesn't fix it.. It raises living standards but doesn't change a single company's incentive to automate..
Capital income taxes.. Don't fix it.. They change profit levels but not the per-task decision to replace a human..
Worker equity and profit sharing.. Narrows the gap but can't close it..
Collective bargaining.. Can't fix it.. Because automating is a dominant strategy.. No voluntary agreement between companies is self-enforcing..
Only one thing works.. A Pigouvian automation tax.. A per-task charge that forces every company to pay for the demand it destroys when it fires a worker..
The researchers call it a "Red Queen effect".. Better AI doesn't solve the problem.. It makes it worse.. Because every company sees a bigger market share gain from automating faster than rivals.. But at the end.. Everyone automates equally.. The gains cancel out.. And the only thing left is more destroyed demand..
The paper's conclusion is devastating..
This isn't a transfer from workers to company owners.. Both sides lose.. Workers lose their income.. Companies lose their customers.. It's a deadweight loss that harms everyone..
And no market force can break the cycle..
The AI layoff trap isn't a prediction.. It's already happening.. And the math says it won't stop on its own.
