Design

Making Global Data Beautiful for NASA’s Space Apps Challenge

For the last two years, Phuse has co-organized NASA’s International Space Apps Challenge in Toronto, a weekend hackathon with a global reach. We’ve also been a part of the wider Space Apps community by supporting the…

Rebranding, Hidden Truths, and Lessons Learned Along the Way

How to Give Good Design Feedback

Giving design feedback can be hard, especially if you’re not a designer. As a non-designer on a design and development team, this is a challenge I face every time I have to assess my colleagues’ work. (And my lack of expertise is always obvious, with comments like: “I dig…

Designer Attitudes That Ruin Client Relationships

As designers, we shouldn’t be so quick blame our clients when things don’t work. When taxi drivers take a wrong turn, they don’t blame their passengers — they defer to their own knowledge and make informed decisions, preventing wrong turns…

Effective Collaboration Through Design Audits

Working on the Internet has many perks. One of them is that we work remotely…