Trends are cool. We get to experiment… try out new things, open new windows… (from which we sometimes wish we could jump off…)

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All jokes aside…

Neumorphism ❤

There has been a lot of criticism, some from people that just don’t like it visually and others that don’t think it complies with accessibility. This trend has been widely analyzed and a lot has been written on how to generate elements and how to use them in different situations.

As designers, we can experiment as much as we want and I believe it is our duty to do so. It…

Usually, as a designer working for a bigger company, you don’t get to be at the decision making of every single design aspect. Some things just arrive at your desk and you’re supposed to use them as-is. And that is fine.

Nevertheless, I try to always test everything that I have to work with. Mainly because we are all humans; we all do mistakes, and… there are usually always things we overlook.

I have made tons of mistakes over the years as a designer, so I learned to force myself to check things thousands of times; including my own work…

I wasn’t truly sure what a hackathon was about when I decided to attend the event. For me, it sounded like a fusion of “hack” and “marathon”. After the event, I thought that it was actually closer to be a sprint than a marathon. If you search in Wikipedia you get this definition:

“A hackathon (also known as a hack day, hackfest or codefest) is a design sprint-like event in which computer programmers and others involved in software development, including graphic designers, interface designers, project managers, and others, often including domain experts, collaborate intensively on software projects.

The goal of…

There is something we need to be aware of: big things follow small changes. Small changes with the ability to make the difference and alter the course of events.

People use calendars regularly. A very high percentage use them every day more than once.

Calendars can help you organize your daily routines and keep track of your “to-do list”. Plus, it is a great tool to manage your time.

Calendars might look like simple applications, but when you start researching, you discover that the topic becomes pretty muddy. The methodology that I followed to try improving the user experience when using a calendar was: the double diamond, a process for which I had one week to do research and one week to produce the final prototype.

Public libraries play a very important role in our society as keepers and distributors of culture. Throughout the years, libraries have evolved and adapted to the needs of a fast-changing society. It is also true, that because these institutions are usually publicly-funded, resources are limited and in most cases scarce. There are very few countries that prioritize culture when it comes to allocating money.

It is common knowledge that users tend to complain about the comfort, the lack of outlets, bad quality of wifi… etc. Users of libraries have very different needs and it’s difficult to keep up with all.

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I am a loyal defender of keeping work-related activities to office-hours, but it is also true that there are times when you need to stay connected. For those moments when you need to answer an email really fast, while you are grocery-shopping or walking down the street, we came up with Gmail-T: the app to help you spend less time answering work-related emails.

How fast could we make the process of answering an email? What if we promised to allow you to do it in just two clicks, with a file attached? …

We have a big problem when it comes to governmental websites; whether it’s the web of the City Hall of Chicago, the City Hall of Berlin or the City Hall of Madrid.

A lot has been done to improve the overall look and feel of this type of websites, but still they all seem to have a similar problem: they are overwhelming.

Have you ever had the experience of being browsing around a website, trying to find something that should be really easy to access to, but appearing impossible?

Like Susan Weinschenk and Dean Barker determined, a good interface will…