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UX lessons from everyday life

ARTICLE SUMMARY: There’s a lot to be said about life’s lessons—especially if you’re a UX designer who pays attention to more than just the screen in front of you. As designers, we should always be on the lookout for the ways humans deal with life’s inconveniences—and...

Typography Styles in Design Systems

ARTICLE SUMMARY: Typography used to be simple: you’d go to the printer, tell him what you wanted, he’d set the type, run off the desired number of copies, and off you’d go. While that's an oversimplification, that was it. Today, with computers, Kindles, iPads,...

Design Principles for AI

ARTICLE SUMMARY: There are a lot of questions when it comes to Artificial Intelligence, especially when it comes to design and anything creative. There are designers wondering whether AI will enhance human creativity or replace it. Artificial intelligence is here to...

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UX lessons from everyday life

ARTICLE SUMMARY: There’s a lot to be said about life’s lessons—especially if you’re a UX designer who pays attention to more than just the screen in front of you. As designers, we should always be on the lookout for the ways humans deal with life’s inconveniences—and...

Typography Styles in Design Systems

ARTICLE SUMMARY: Typography used to be simple: you’d go to the printer, tell him what you wanted, he’d set the type, run off the desired number of copies, and off you’d go. While that's an oversimplification, that was it. Today, with computers, Kindles, iPads,...

UX lessons from everyday life

ARTICLE SUMMARY: There’s a lot to be said about life’s lessons—especially if you’re a UX designer who pays attention to more than just the screen in front of you. As designers, we should always be on the lookout for the ways humans deal with life’s inconveniences—and...

Typography Styles in Design Systems

ARTICLE SUMMARY: Typography used to be simple: you’d go to the printer, tell him what you wanted, he’d set the type, run off the desired number of copies, and off you’d go. While that's an oversimplification, that was it. Today, with computers, Kindles, iPads,...

Design Principles for AI

ARTICLE SUMMARY: There are a lot of questions when it comes to Artificial Intelligence, especially when it comes to design and anything creative. There are designers wondering whether AI will enhance human creativity or replace it. Artificial intelligence is here to...

How Beginner Designers Can Improve Their UI/UX Skills

ARTICLE SUMMARY: Whether you're self taught or just getting out of design school, it's exciting to get out into the real world and start making a name for yourself in the business. The trouble happens when reality sets in, you're book smart, but short on experience....

Prompt engineering for designers: a practical guide

ARTICLE SUMMARY: In our wildest imagination, who thought artificial intelligence would be so intrusive and involved in almost every aspect of business or our lives. As technology advances it behooves designers to keep up with these advances if we are going to survive...

Designing with psychology to make products stick

ARTICLE SUMMARY: Back in the 50's and early 60's marketing was a whole different process than it is today. A bunch of marketers would get together, bounce ideas off each other and decide on what ideas they would “run it up the flagpole and see who salutes”. As the old...

Unlocking Accessibility through Design Systems

ARTICLE SUMMARY: In this day and age all designers know accessibility is a must. The problem is there are a lot of designers out there that cringe when the word accessibility is mentioned. They see timelines getting tighter, to do lists getting longer, and aggravation...

10 Surprisingly useful things you can do with ChatGPT

ARTICLE SUMMARY: There is a lot to learn about Artificial Intelligence. It has revolutionized the way things are done, both professionally and personally. AI has cut across nearly every aspect of society, transforming industries and adding convenience and daily...

How to design for short attention spans

ARTICLE SUMMARY: In this fast paced world not everyone has ADHD, some people just want to see it all, and now. The amount of information available to everyone has given rise to "doomscrolling." People now scan, swipe, and scroll like their thumbs are training for the...

99% of UI/UX Designers Still Don’t Use ChatGPT-5 to Its Full Potential

ARTICLE SUMMARY: When it comes to AI and design, nobody could have predicted the rate of growth or the impact it would have on the creative community. Like all new things, there are people who are leery of change and take a wait-and-see attitude, or just dabble in its...

UX lessons from everyday life

ARTICLE SUMMARY: There’s a lot to be said about life’s lessons—especially if you’re a UX designer who pays attention to more than just the screen in front of you. As designers, we should always be on the lookout for the ways humans deal with life’s inconveniences—and...

Typography Styles in Design Systems

ARTICLE SUMMARY: Typography used to be simple: you’d go to the printer, tell him what you wanted, he’d set the type, run off the desired number of copies, and off you’d go. While that's an oversimplification, that was it. Today, with computers, Kindles, iPads,...

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How Beginner Designers Can Improve Their UI/UX Skills

ARTICLE SUMMARY: Whether you're self taught or just getting out of design school, it's exciting to get out into the real world and start making a name for yourself in the business. The trouble happens when reality sets in, you're book smart, but short on experience....

Fail, Recalibrate, Succeed

ARTICLE SUMMARY: There are a lot of influences in UX design that affect the out comes in our designs. Some of those influences include design thinking, user centered design, behavioral psychology, and last but not least, nature. just to name a few. When talking about...

How to Build a Future-Proof Graphic Design Career

ARTICLE SUMMARY: No one can deny the radical changes Artificial Intelligence has had on the design community. Even more amazing is the speed at which these changes are happening. It tends to be a little unnerving and down right scary at times. As AI tools become more...

See What They See: Constellations’ New App Unlocks Audience Perception Like Never Before

In today’s crowded digital landscape, it’s not enough to just deliver your message, you need to know how your message is landing. That’s where Constellations groundbreaking new Audience Perception Mapping App comes in. This powerful new tool is...

CONSISTENCY, On compounding patterns and the art of divergence.

ARTICLE SUMMARY: "Consistency" is one of the most repeated mantras in UX design, but do we always understand what it means? Depending on context, it can be seen as a thoughtful compliment or an inflexible constraint. Brands create and maintain consistent UX patterns...

Simplifying Icon Design

ARTICLE SUMMARY: Originally icons were used as aids for worship and spiritual contemplation in Eastern Christianity. They were used as tools for edification, especially for the illiterate faithful, by visually conveying religious stories and teachings. The 1980s...

How Beginner Designers Can Improve Their UI/UX Skills

ARTICLE SUMMARY: Whether you're self taught or just getting out of design school, it's exciting to get out into the real world and start making a name for yourself in the business. The trouble happens when reality sets in, you're book smart, but short on experience....

Fail, Recalibrate, Succeed

ARTICLE SUMMARY: There are a lot of influences in UX design that affect the out comes in our designs. Some of those influences include design thinking, user centered design, behavioral psychology, and last but not least, nature. just to name a few. When talking about...

Typography Styles in Design Systems

ARTICLE SUMMARY: Typography used to be simple: you’d go to the printer, tell him what you wanted, he’d set the type, run off the desired number of copies, and off you’d go. While that's an oversimplification, that was it. Today, with computers, Kindles, iPads,...

How to be strategic when picking a typeface

ARTICLE SUMMARY: As designers, we understand how crucial typography is to the success of any project. For users, it's simple: they can either read it or they can't and have no interest in why. Most people aren’t aware of the depth of research and thought that goes...

17 typography tips for creating your own fonts

ARTICLE SUMMARY: As designers you know that the right font can put your project over the top. But there are times when no matter how hard you look you will not find that "just right" font for your project, it's frustrating. When that happens you have two choices,...

Alternatives to Using Pure Black (#000000) for Text and Backgrounds

ARTICLE SUMMARY: Back in the day before computers, when it came to type life was fairly simple. You picked out your type, you watched your leading, kerning, legibility, and readability. Pretty straight forward stuff and then it was off to the printers. Depending on...

Typography Styles in Design Systems

ARTICLE SUMMARY: Typography used to be simple: you’d go to the printer, tell him what you wanted, he’d set the type, run off the desired number of copies, and off you’d go. While that's an oversimplification, that was it. Today, with computers, Kindles, iPads,...

Design Principles for AI

ARTICLE SUMMARY: There are a lot of questions when it comes to Artificial Intelligence, especially when it comes to design and anything creative. There are designers wondering whether AI will enhance human creativity or replace it. Artificial intelligence is here to...

How Beginner Designers Can Improve Their UI/UX Skills

ARTICLE SUMMARY: Whether you're self taught or just getting out of design school, it's exciting to get out into the real world and start making a name for yourself in the business. The trouble happens when reality sets in, you're book smart, but short on experience....

Designing with psychology to make products stick

ARTICLE SUMMARY: Back in the 50's and early 60's marketing was a whole different process than it is today. A bunch of marketers would get together, bounce ideas off each other and decide on what ideas they would “run it up the flagpole and see who salutes”. As the old...

Unlocking Accessibility through Design Systems

ARTICLE SUMMARY: In this day and age all designers know accessibility is a must. The problem is there are a lot of designers out there that cringe when the word accessibility is mentioned. They see timelines getting tighter, to do lists getting longer, and aggravation...

How to design for short attention spans

ARTICLE SUMMARY: In this fast paced world not everyone has ADHD, some people just want to see it all, and now. The amount of information available to everyone has given rise to "doomscrolling." People now scan, swipe, and scroll like their thumbs are training for the...

99% of UI/UX Designers Still Don’t Use ChatGPT-5 to Its Full Potential

ARTICLE SUMMARY: When it comes to AI and design, nobody could have predicted the rate of growth or the impact it would have on the creative community. Like all new things, there are people who are leery of change and take a wait-and-see attitude, or just dabble in its...

10 UX secrets from Apple that will make your product irresistible

ATICLE SUMMARY: You have to admit, when it comes to Apple design and products they are the envy of the design world. They always look good, work well, and each new version is more innovative than the last. That's no accident. From Apple's beginning in 1976 until now,...

The Mechanics Behind Making Better Design Decisions

ARTICLE: There's a lot of people out there that think the purpose of design is to make things look good, pleasing to the eye. They think it's like "Fields of Dreams," if it looks good, they will buy it. Designers know there is nothing further from the truth. Most...

Why “good UX” isn’t enough

ARTICLE SUMMARY: A combustion engine needs air, gas, compression, and a spark to work. If you are missing one of those things you end up sitting on your bike in the driveway wondering what went wrong. Ux design is like that There are many designers that define "good...

Typography Styles in Design Systems

ARTICLE SUMMARY: Typography used to be simple: you’d go to the printer, tell him what you wanted, he’d set the type, run off the desired number of copies, and off you’d go. While that's an oversimplification, that was it. Today, with computers, Kindles, iPads,...

Design Principles for AI

ARTICLE SUMMARY: There are a lot of questions when it comes to Artificial Intelligence, especially when it comes to design and anything creative. There are designers wondering whether AI will enhance human creativity or replace it. Artificial intelligence is here to...

How Beginner Designers Can Improve Their UI/UX Skills

ARTICLE SUMMARY: Whether you're self taught or just getting out of design school, it's exciting to get out into the real world and start making a name for yourself in the business. The trouble happens when reality sets in, you're book smart, but short on experience....