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Designing design systems: How to lay the groundwork that drives decision making

A collaboration framework for building or evolving a design system

1d ago

An orange-to-blue-to-green gradient in the triangular shape of a “play button” on a light-to-darker blue gradient background.

1d ago

Design career journeys: From sound recordist to UX designer

Adolfo Hernandez Santisteban on how an understanding of emotional tone and context in sound design helps him empathize with user needs in…

Jan 30

A digital illustration consisting of multiple representations of sound patterns (clockwise from top left: waves, vertical bars, radar, audio timeline, volume control, rays, and charted lines), in vibrant pink, green, blue, and black on an ivory background.

Jan 30

The path to design principal: Mastering archetypes and defining success

The skills that can elevate your design career and your influence as an individual contributor

Jan 24

A six by four grid divided by deep purple lines. Inside each square is an irregular hexagonal shape on a background of vibrant color (either blue, yellow, orange, or pink). The inside of each hexagon is randomly pattered with stripes, flowers, checkerboards, dots, oversized type, or wavy lines.

Jan 24

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Thinking Design

Plotlines, poetry, and pixels: The art of crafting captivating narratives

A storytelling framework for presenting design work and ideas

Nov 19, 2024

Nov 19, 2024

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Thinking Design

Behind the design: Adobe’s new splash screens

A dive into the redesign of the dynamic introductions to our desktop apps

Nov 13, 2024

A digital compilation of full and partial in-product splash screens on a white background. Represented products include Adobe Animate, Adobe Substance 3D, Adobe Media Encoder, Adobe After Effects, and Adobe Audition.

Nov 13, 2024

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Thinking Design

Ask Adobe Design: What are the non-design skills you rely on in your work?

Five team members share the competencies outside of design that have helped shape their careers

Nov 12, 2024

A colorful illustration of a goat in a cross-legged yoga pose, wearing a green vest with various pockets and tools sticking in them. It’s right hand is holding a goldfish in a bag and its left hand is making the OK gesture. Rays of orange and pink are above and behind the goat, with various objects (sunglasses, charts, calculator, dice) and a yellow four-pointed star above it. Below the goat are downward-facing rays of pink and green scattered with white dots.

Nov 12, 2024

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Thinking Design

Research basics every designer should know

Leveraging design research fundamentals to improve product experiences

Nov 11, 2024

A digital illustration in a surrealist style. A hand holding a magnifying glass breaks through a tear in a royal blue cloud-filled sky. Surrounding it are spheres and cones and trailing ribbons alongside a Monarch butterfly, a speech bubble, a question mark, and an eye peering down through the lens of the magnifying glass.

Nov 11, 2024

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Thinking Design

Advice for making the most of an indirect career path to design

How to weave the threads of past experiences into your work

Oct 8, 2024

A multi-paneled illustration in vibrant shades of pink teal, red, yellow, and green. Clockwise from top left are a set of orange outlined eyes with long lashes; a pink hand tossing a purple graduation cap with a multicolored braided tassel of pink, blue, yellow, purple, and green, into a blue cloud-filled rectangle of sky; a computer monitor with an orange and pink display and set of pink hands playing a childhood string game against a background of yellow and green; an astronaut in a blue suit.

Oct 8, 2024

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Thinking Design

Designing design systems: Supporting implementation and adoption

Encouraging proper use of a design system-and knowing when it needs to flex

Sep 26, 2024

Flowing swirling blocks of vibrantly-hued color in a blue-to-purple-to-pink-to-red-to-orange-to yellow gradient.

Sep 26, 2024

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Thinking Design

What does an EA for a design executive do?

Robert Martin discusses 852 Hz high-frequency sound patterns, inspiring children in the arts, and understanding executive priorities

Sep 18, 2024

An illustration of a white man with short dark hair wearing black-frame glasses and a black T-shirt in a brick red square. The square is on a purple background divided by black lines into a random grid. The sections of the grid contain various simple line drawings in black, of people, abstract to-do lists, and basic patterns (diagonally-drawn straight lines, checker board pattern, and wavy lines).

Sep 18, 2024

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