I create a lot of flowcharts, wireframes, and diagrams in my daily work routine as a Project and Product…
Since the early 2000’s, the desktop metaphor of tabbed browsing has dominated the way we navigate…
I see this question a lot around the internet:
“What should I major in if I…
I’ve been working in Adobe Photoshop for over 10 years as a designer. At Digital…
By Arianna McClain & Rohini Vibha
via Muzli design inspiration
As human designers, what can we learn from nature? One way to answer this question is to first consider our own limitations as designers — the aspects of the design process that are particularly difficult to us as humans. Then, we can study how design occurs in nature, and the process that…
When I was a kid, I saw an episode of Full House that in a small, weird way, helped…
The world is rapidly move forwarding to the digital world. And, the experience mechanism changed from text to gesture…
I’m a designer for a startup in Denver. I recently spent a little time investigating Principle’s transition settings. I’m a new Principle user, so it was a good exercise to break the interpolations down and see how they work. What prompted this brief study, was that I was…
There are some things that you will start to notice if you are around design…
Once upon a time, I embarked on a crazy adventure to create a fully GIF animated ebook version…
By Laura Kirkwood-Datta
An artist uses only one hand, his dominant one, to paint. This hand always holds the tool…
Note: an edited version of this essay may also be found on Design Observer.
The Cinderella Project is a non-profit organization that helps underprivileged youth in their final year of high school reach the milestone of…
So, you’ve been a very busy bee snapping all those photo stills for that stop-motion…
This is a startup we embraced from its first steps. We ended up creating its branding, product, development…
Hello world, We’re Yelp Product Design, and it’s so nice to finally meet you!
by Bradley Nice, Content Manager at ClickHelp.com — software documentation tool
When customers and prospective customers visit your website, the first thing they see and notice is the design. Studies have shown…
In November, I was incredibly fortunate to be selected for the first IDEOU Impact House — an immersive experience exploring how design thinking in business can contribute to positive social impact. For a week in San Francisco and Sonoma County, I lived, learned and…
18 months ago I wrote my three year roadmap to becoming a more strategic designer — so what’s happened halfway through? Well, I’m not John Maeda but I feel like I have moved in the right direction. In the past year I took a job at Amazon working on Amazon…
Escape Key is a group project I worked on this semester in INFO 3450: Human-Computer…
Thе unbearable lightness and heat of this summer make us look to the North and seek some…
Meet some of the new designers set to shake up experience design in 2017. These fresh…
Welcome to the Sketch tips & tricks corner. Today we are going to deal with disorganised layers.
We have all been there when working with the Sketch app for Mac. After a certain…
It’s not a secret anymore that we are addicted to Scandinavian design and architecture. So, after we…
One of the things I’m proudest of when I return to a project later is to see the client using post-its in their meetings…
There are three responses to a piece of design — Yes, No, or WOW! Achieving that wow factor is not easy, but that should be the ultimate goal of a designer. We at FullStop pride ourselves on creating the best identities for brands and give them…
Matías Imbern obtained his Master in Design and Technology with honors from the…
Brazil has born exceptional designers and exceptional furniture brands too —…
At the London Go Meetup in January, I spoke about writing Beautiful packages in Go. You can watch the talk on the SkillsMatter website:
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about Search Experience, and here is a summary of my journey.
Let’s come clean first. I have an engineering background, where technology &…
I like using:
height: 1em;
top: 50%;
margin-top: -.5em; //half the height
This way the icon is always in the middle;
Interview by Allison Grinberg-Funes
(This article is a follow up on my previous article “Through Different Eyes”)
I’d like to give you a short update on the Design Thinking Conference. But first… what an amazing amount of cool…
Anima allows designers to create high-fidelity…
As accurate and portable brain imaging technologies become more mainstream, the nature of…
In the hottest weeks of the year it is time for our great Mediterranean escape…
“Geek of the Week” is Geeked Memphis’s bi-weekly spotlight of the dope people and companies diversifying Memphis’s entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem.
This summer was really hot. Not only because the weather was warm, but also because it was bubbling within our…
After the election, there was definitely a fire ignited among a lot of women I know. This manifested itself in a lot of…
TL;DR — I’ll show you how to use NPM and Sketchtool to automate your Sketch.app file versioning process.
Arazoo Case Study: The Four Seasons Project Team
This shooting assignment will be done as a group and will be due in class on Tuesday, January 31st. Each shot below should be held for 10 seconds. You will edit the clips into a single video and post it to Vimeo or YouTube.
Stop getting the foundation of good business wrong.
Tears rolling down my cheeks, I, with my mom, leaving my dad and brother started from Chennai to Bengaluru with series of…
If you browse the websites of the big furniture brands, you’ll see a very few female designers compared to the…
This project consists of using a sketching technique for analyzing a complex problem. In this case, painting a room. The challenge is to create a visual map of the problem, taking each step, and creating a small sketch illustrating it. This…
What if learning could be an enjoyable ride like a roller-coaster game? What if understanding concepts only took a few minutes? What if sharing knowledge with your friends could happen at the click of a button? The list is endless but we envision a better…
I’ve been designing Photoshop, PowerPoint, paper, and HTML prototypes for two decades now. Wire frames (or is it wireframes?), card sorting, mock-ups, style guides… they are all good ways to build/redesign a product. But if you want to truly be as proficient as possible, just…
Right now I’m realizing more and more that I need to focus on my health first and foremost, everything else is a distraction. I’m not sure if I will ever publish this publicly, I am writing this down because these are thoughts I’ve been having lately, they’ve been swirling around in my head…
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By Dana Pavlichko
This is the natural time for reflection on the coming year. I’ve been thinking about how to use my New Year’s goals at work, as a designer, to create positive changes for others.
by Flow Fournier, UX Designer at Red Blue Blur Ideas — UX
“Great design often stems from strong constraints.”
For a designer, not being able to move your hand is a strong one. This is what happened to…
Ivan Litsvinenka is a high level professional, skilled computer scientist and developer. With an…
A few months ago I was introduced into the very dark, and very heavy topic of sexual assault. No, I wasn’t a victim of SA, but a friend of mine was. I had no idea. We met in an Interaction Design class and our final project…
How best to raise the levels of creativity in your office? Make it a place where your mind can thrive as well as your body? Turns out it does not have to require remaking your building so that it looks like Google HQ.
Too. Many. Tabs.
I use Twitter every day. It’s by far the app/service I spend the most time using. There’s something perfect…
After 8 years in Digital Marketing, I’ve decided to, as Stephen Covey puts it, ‘sharpen the saw’ by upgrading my skills in the…
Não adianta eu mentir pra mim mesma, jamais serei a pessoa que lê quatro livros em uma semana…
Priscilla Liu, from the PropertyGuru Group, joined us at IxDA Singapore on…
You know the drill, social media is always changing, it’s so hard, blah blah blah.
Brand loyalty is the propensity of some customers to continue to act on brand…
In the second episode of “Mastering Prototyping Techniques”, I kept up with the fast-paced environment of the series and conceptualized a smart shower control interface using the OXO brand. With the concept of the shower control interface developed, I…
OXO is known for their universal design principles to deliver comfortable, usable and delightful cooking tools. They are currently exploring opportunities to expand their business into new areas, including incorporate sensors and digital UIs, as well as…
Great article (even though I miss a part where you mention the importance of defining font styles). Thinking in views is very important. I also started thinking in variables, classes and reusable margins and with plugins like fluid or auto layout you can even think responsive. The deeper I dive into this design workflow, the more I have to take care…
Opa Ruan de Almeida (Kakate)!
Sketch é mesmo uma maravilha. Inclusive já saiu a nova versão 42 (eu estava testando a versão beta) com algumas melhorias mas nada muito significativo.
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I’ve been introduced on boardroom meetings as a graphic designer for print projects and web designer for online…
by Kate Snyder via http://www.instantgrass.com/report/the-power-of-empathy/
Empathy is a critical, yet commonly overlooked, tool for businesses, stretching all along the spectrum from research to strategy execution.
An Architect turns his sights on creating a website-building platform specifically for his peers.
To be honest calling the people as users or customers does not change the fact that we are one of them. Only difference is we, designers have the tools to build empathy and create a good…
To Those Who Respect How Work Gets Done,
Your portfolio shows me that y’all focus on projects that make an impact. The DoneDone issue tracker is a nice piece of work¹. I’d also like to…
My initial background is in apparel; I started in women’s wovens and then moved to knits. From knits, I moved into the world of accessory design. In accessories I worked on both, soft and hard goods, inclusive of handbags, scarves (both knit and woven)…
There’s no question that creative people are very different from others. They seem to live on a different…
The battle against nipples, the surprising design of the NYC Subway, new tech in…
What is your experience with intuition?
I am a designer with no formal design education and though I have never been on the receiving end of the ‘you don’t deserve it’ compliment, I have often seen the look in people’s eyes. I have quite the opposite of Impostor syndrome, I do not feel like a fraud and rather find myself pondering over why do I not care about these people’s opinions.
“Do it yourself” (DIY) may not actually be that new a concept but it certainly is a trend which we have…
In these days, most of the people would prefer to research online to find the products or company before they…
Would you believe it — the famous neon signs of Hong Kong are made by only a handful of…
Netflix creates a lot of awesome TV and coming up in February they’re about to release…
In response to the HBR article regarding how to find stratgic candidates I thought it apripo to write about the other end of the equation.
Products connect when they are really able to tap into the way people think. I’ve seen some products that do an awesome job of keeping its audience motivated and I wanted to share some principles that I have taken away…
Task analysis is a simple and helpful research tool that breaks down tasks from a user’s perspective. Using task analysis helps determine what someone will or should naturally do when completing a task or solving a problem. Keep in mind that it is crucial to keep the…
I love being an early bird for new apps, I’m super-excited about new technology trends and, somehow, I buy a new phone about once a year. A quick diagnosis will probably point…
With the ever increasing popularity of people using the internet to make purchases and find information, more businesses are looking to start a website. With businesses such as Wix, Weebly, Wordpress, Blogspot, etc. more people have the ability…
A simple prototype of a medium-tech shower hand UI.
I appreciate the high tech showers that have nozzles going every direction, but for my interface I aimed to create…
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Shivansh, Thank you for evaluating the website closely. Your feedback is certainly valuable to us.
If Design was a story it would come as different books, found in different sections of the…
The purpose of this next assignment is to learn how to use the laser cutter. I have had some experience…
It is simple really. UX is the gateway to which human emotion and physical or digital objects converge. What I mean by this is that things that…
Greetings from beautiful Palo Alto, California.
1185 is a branding agency in the heart of Silicon Valley.
From startups to the Fortune 100, we’ve worked with many of the best and brightest in technology and helped companies build massive market cap…
Thank you Erikas for taking the time to share one of the best platform for freelancer.
Marc (CEO) has a note, a project could be removed from a customer who has a history of nonpayment and being abusive to designers by internal Design Inc. They have a zero tolerance policy for abuse and nonpayment of any kind, They have also…
Once you decide to install a hardwood floor in your home, you have a lot of decisions to make. You’ll choose the kind of wood, the width of the boards and the subflooring you need. One of the final decisions you’ll have is what kind of pattern you…
Searching for internships and jobs can be extremely overwhelming, especially for young people without…
Quite a few of my peers said that designing without any restrictions and requirements can be really challenging because they have no idea where to go with so much freedom. However, now, I found design still tricky when there’s a detailed requirement.
This holiday season, the creative problem solving team put together a little kit to say thank you to our clients. The goal…
Job Ad project is a project to help you realize and locate the key words in a job ad. I was designed to research jobs, finds…
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Without large knowledge of the coding that it takes during web design, this process…
I’ve become quite keen on making what’s known as “sketch notes” during meetings and presentations…
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By Veronica Goudzward
We talked recently about what user experience (UX) is and why it matters. Now that…
Ahmadabad is city of state Gujarat of India. It has so much suggestion of ideas to give client so clients have lots option to select ideas.
Although nearly 10 years old, the article Is Google Making Us Stupid? highlights some major topics about the change of technology. Even today, people are fascinated with the ways in which our media consumption is changing, and how they might affect us. Nine years later…
Ready to get your mind blown? I didn’t know who Brian Solis was before this interview, but I want…
I’ve been wanting to colour for quite a while now. I wasn’t good at art in school at all but as a grown up, I think I understand colours that go together.
My best friend had gifted me a colouring book quite a while ago that I hadn’t…
Springs are used when you need to produce power in a system or you simply want to go for something that can easily balance your system. This is what the springs do! They balance the system for you. There are…
From this design thinking interviews, I get that interviews are a technique to learn more about the user. Interviews help support the use of the innovation framework. Whether or not the stories people tell are true, they reveal how the user thinks…
The issues pointed out here are far more complex than explained. In order to fully unify a UI/UX experience, most often a team, rather than an individual (although individuals exist) whose brain hemispheres are so fully integrated they’re as facile cognitively, semiotically, verbally/linguistically. All must interact dynamically to produce the…
When furnishing a new home or room, you may have an overwhelming desire to fill the…
i want to be creative in new ways, i want to help my mind not sink into a deeper and darker place.
Generally, owners of various online ventures wonder why there is an alarming rise in the competitiveness among online businesses. And also what are the new ways to getting maximum profits from the E-Commerce stores. Basically, the reason behind…
Spruce up the overall appearance of your master bedroom with a few easy updates.
1) The Rug
-Make sure the rug will be under your feet around the bed so you have a warm soft place for your toes.
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