Framing the Problem Last spring, the team decided to start building Creative Market Pro — a curated design asset subscription built to help creative professionals and teams do great design work fast. This decision meant that we could potentially have customers accessing two products using the same account. So, we had to create…

Back in 2015, I wrote about how we designed and implemented a system for naming and organizing our files in our company’s Dropbox account. It worked well for the last 2 ½ years. However, our approach started to break because we underwent some big changes in the middle of last…

One of the most difficult things about being a designer is trying to keep on top of the rapid changes in our industry. Tools, process, skills, team structure, and more are evolving at an ever-increasing pace. It’s difficult to know where to look and how much time to spend keeping…

Crouching Feedback, Hidden Disaster Feedback is the wild card in your team’s design cycles. Get it wrong and projects are at risk of being delayed, producing ineffective outcomes, or even worse — blowing up or shutting down. On the other hand, effective design feedback can save the day and bond the team together. Creating…

I’ve been working on Creative Market for 5 years now. Where did the time go? I thought it was finally time for us to shape our design principles and design team’s mission and vision. Surely after this much time we should have these strategic pieces in place, right? I decided…

As a design manager, I spend a good chunk of time finding and recruiting new talent to join our design team. …

Last month, I wrote about how our team started raising the bar of our user experience design efforts over the last two years. From those efforts, we identified and shaped a new UX design deliverable that’s become core to our process—the UX Plan. This week, our lead senior product designer…

Since shipping the MVP over four years ago, the Creative Market team has been building new features and iterating on existing ones. We started off as a small, scrappy team that built product with tremendous speed. …

Early in my design career, I hoarded design tools and assets by the truckload. Before I was competent enough to make beautiful bézier curves in Illustrator, I would tap this personal archive of resources for what I needed. I’d edit these paid and free assets for the project at hand…