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As someone who is ostensibly a professional writer, I can say with some authority that sometimes, writing is hard. And when you’re staring at page three of an essay that your professor has insisted sh
Anna Charity is head of design at the meditation company Headspace. She spoke to Doreen Lorenzo for Designing Women, a series of interviews with brilliant women in the design industry. Doreen Lorenzo:
Entrepreneurship September 5, 2018 Noctiluxx/Getty Images Summary. Design thinking is, at its core, a strategy to preserve and defend the status-quo – and an old strategy at that. Design thinking priv
We all remember the face-plant that was Google Glass. Or the time when, in an infamous fit of over-engineering, Google tested 41 shades of the color blue on ad links to find the most profitable hue. S
Explore different notification models and when to use which Published inMuzli - Design Inspiration · 8 min read· Sep 2, 2018 -- Notification Models People of Medium, hello again. Continuing the Featur
Illustration by Justin Tran How Dropbox uses Framer X and real data to design Published inDropbox Design · 5 min read· Sep 18, 2018 -- Earlier in 2018, I wrote about desktop prototyping and how settin
When I started this blog, way back in 2006, I had no clue how long it would last. I actually had no idea I could even write about something for more than a couple of days. It is funny how things go. O
Or why do we need to know about the human mind when designing products? E verything we design nowadays, from chairs to web applications, we make it for people. And understanding the human mind is a crucial element during the design process. Failing to do that, we make products that are difficult to…
Uber has scrapped its controversial and confusing "asshole" symbol for a simple wordmark, as part of its new visual identity designed with branding firm Wolff Olins . The collaborative redesign by Uber and Wolff Olins aims to rectify errors made with the ride-sharing service's rebrand in 2016 –…
At Walmart Labs in Bentonville, our internal design team creates applications for associates (Walmart’s name for employees) in our stores, distribution centers and corporate offices. We design everything from wearable devices to desktop systems, and our users’ environments range from brightly lit…
Yesterday Chrome celebrated its 10th birthday and for this double-digits anniversary they made new design updates. Although Google says that they send updates every six weeks, right now they made bigger improvements and they are actually really good. What we should take out as UX designers Search…
Predicting a shift to ARM processors, designer Lorenzo Mariotti imagines a new breed of iMac that’s faster, quieter, slimmer and more efficient than its predecessors. Aside from an all-new processor architecture based on 32-bit reduced instruction, the new look features thin display bezels, the…
That’s according to a fascinating new report from GraphicSprings , which queried 24,000 people on their visual recall of the branding of the world’s most profitable companies. According to the results, the logos of four of the top five most profitable corporations are unrecognizable to the American…
This month’s collection of new tools and elements for designers has a common theme – productivity. There are so many things here to help you do work better and more efficiently. But there’s fun too…make sure to look for some of the hidden design gems deep in this article. They’ll bring a smile to…
At Google Cloud my job is to reimagine enterprise — the tools we build and how we design them. Traditional enterprise products don’t reflect how people work — our pain points, our tasks across the workday, our desire to stay a step ahead. They lack human-centered design. They lack AI. Before coming…
Karl Fast I work where information collides with computation, our bodies, and the future. Director of Information Architecture at Normative.com. Aug 28 The Fundamental Job of Design is Not Great Design The real job of design is changing organizations and charting a path to the future. What is the…
The Age of Remote-First “Workplaces” What it could mean for tomorrow’s workers, companies, and communities In 2015 we held our very first team retreat on the small Mediterranean island of Menorca. Of the 28 team members who attended the retreat, I had only met 14 in person. Fast forward to 2017, and…
Share › AddThis Sharing Buttons New Logo and Identity for Library of Congress by Pentagram Reviewed before after Reviewed Aug. 22, 2018 by Armin Comments (287) Industry / Culture Established in 1800, the Library of Congress is an agency of the legislative branch of the U.S. government whose mission…
When I interviewed with Lyft, one of the last things they asked was “ Are you sure you’ll be happy? I’ve seen your work and it’s detailed as shit. We work on phones. Have you ever _really_ thought about how small a phone screen is? ” I laughed, appreciated the sentiment, and accepted the job twice…
People paintings photo by Robin Hutton The first rule of building a valuable product is that it should be valuable for someone. Meaning, an actual, real-life person (or many such people) should have some problem or desire addressed because of your work. This is pretty obvious. And yet, if you listen…
Create 2-state, SVG-powered animated icons We just released the Icon Transition Generator , an online tool that generates SVG-powered icon transitions. The tool accepts two SVG icons and exports a single SVG file that includes the JavaScript code for the animation. If you are using the Nucleo app ,…
It’s been a decade since the British designer Imran Chaudhri first imagined a user interface that would introduce millions of people to the smartphone. Chaudhri joined Apple in 1995, soon rising to become the design director of the company’s human interfaces group–where he was one member of the…
7 Use-Cases of Forms Design Switch VS Checkbox in User Interface Design Forms provide several controls that make it easier to collect input from users. Using the right control at right place is a challenge while designing forms. A checkbox control has three states: unselected, selected, and…
Illustration by the super talented Maya Ealey In 2012, I started a small side project to standardize the design patterns and user experience of 12 software products at Atlassian . Over the next 3 years, this small side project turned into a very big project that became my full time job that involved…
Memo card series n ° 1 : a maximum of information in a minimum of word. The way to mark field have strong implications for how users perceive and complete forms. This is a case of psychology quite simple, indicate the positive is better because it gives a better feeling to users, the decision is…
There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed — ernest Hemingway writing is hard. writing to sell is even harder. words must be written, read, rewritten and coaxed until they arrange themselves in a way that persuades. however, a while back i stumbled across something:…
How many people do you need to design a great product? Jeff Bezos has a rule at Amazon, or perhaps more aptly a philosophy. If a team cannot be fed by two pizzas then that team is too large — Forbes We live in a world of abundance which in the end has a negative consequence on our way of thinking.…
artboard studio · tool · tools · mockup · mockups Artboard Studio: The last Mockup Creator tool you will ever need. Let us introduce Artboard Studio, what is it? Let's say it will be the first and last mockup creator tool you will ever need. It's a browser-based application that let you create your…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is preparing to release a new Chrome Material Design refresh next month. “Chrome Browser will have a new design across all operating systems,” reveals Google in its latest Chrome enterprise release notes . That new design will debut in the Chrome 69…
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A guide to remote working and how to get started Look at that! There’s a bloody big world out there. Where do you wanna go? Hiya, I’m Charles — I’m a product designer, I work remotely for InVision and I absolutely love it. I received a crazy amount of response from a Tweet I posted a while back so I…
A high level guide for designers and developers who write CSS, but want to be more strategic about building moderate to large scale CSS systems I’ve spent a lot of time working CSS systems. A large amount of my exposure occurred while working for a small web development agency as a UI Engineer and…
This week, Ikea opened its first store in India –a feat the company has been planning for many years. But while the big, blue exterior of the store looks the same, the interiors, from the displays to the products themselves, have been subtlety tailored to accommodate cultural differences. It’s a…
Filters are a great tool to narrow down high volumes of content and to surface the most relevant results. How do we make sure they are helpful rather than confusing? This is the write up of a research and subsequent debate session we had in the Design team at Zomato . It’s vastly based on Baymard’s…
When I started at Coinbase a year ago, it quickly became clear that there are a thousand big problems to solve in crypto — and very few of them had been considered by a designer. I shared this thought with one of my design heroes, John Maeda . Where should I begin? He looked at me thoughtfully and…
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