Start: 04:23am Fri 11th August Finish: 17:56 Sat 12th August Time: 37.33 My Grandad said to me when I was a young lad, “you’re blessed with a body that will do anything that you tell it to”. And Those words have stuck with me. Ever since hearing them, I’ve done…

Taking design principles beyond pixels and into our daily lives. — Design principles — An excellent reference for designers to ensure their work aligns with the product, company, or team vision. For anyone unfamiliar, the digital services page on GOV.UK is a great example of them in action. Last year the Nordnet Design Studio came up with some of our own…

How can we make them work? — Designs Sprints are awesome. At Nordnet, we run them to kick off almost every new product we create. When we need to bring an idea to life, we Sprint. Our Head of Product Design, Marcus Castenfors has already talked about how we run co-located Sprints in a great article called…

A quick look at how Nordnet designers submit work to our UI Kit, and a simple way to document the process. — The Nordnet design team are huge fans of Atomic Design. We use it to create and organise our UI Kit, used daily by our designers and marketing department to create consistent content and products. Fast. As our UI Kit evolves, we’re constantly trying to develop our workflow and process too…

Why embracing this flexible way of working can help attract talent and create passion within your company.

I’d like to be a better writer. A lot of people who say “I‘d like to be good at XYZ”, rarely mean it. What they mean to say is “I like the idea of being good at XYZ”. There’s a huge difference. And I’m as guilty as anyone. …

We’ve already talked about our Atomic Workflow and the products and tools we use to keep the team in sync. But what’s it like working this way on a day-to-day basis? Is it time consuming? How do we decide when to create a new Atom or Molecule? …

Thanks to our Atomic Workflow we have a solid design system in place at Nordnet. The jewel in the crown being a Sketch file that contains our UI Kit. Hundreds of design assets inside. Everything from typography guidelines and input states, to grids and colour pallets. And to top it…

We’ve recently introduced Atomic Design to manage our digital assets and workflow, increase speed, and maintain consistency across our product offering. In this article we’ll give an overview of the Atomic way of thinking, and share how we’ve applied it — with a little help from BEM and Git. What is Atomic Design? If…