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Human after all

ARTICLE SUMMARY: It’s become clear that Artificial Intelligence has revolutionized the design industry in unexpected ways. Talk about throwing designers a curve ball. As a result, many designers are facing uncertainty, struggling to navigate the pace of change,...

The A-Z of Design

ARTICLE SUMMARY: Pursuing a career in design often starts with a sharp eye and creative instinct. From an early age, you recognized beauty not only in traditional art forms but in the crafted visuals that filled your everyday world. You appreciated the elegance of ad...

Search Box Design Practices

ARTICLE SUMMARY: What’s the one feature no serious website should overlook? A search box. Far from being a mere convenience, it’s a fundamental part of delivering a strong user experience. Without a search box users may struggle to locate specific information,...

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Human after all

ARTICLE SUMMARY: It’s become clear that Artificial Intelligence has revolutionized the design industry in unexpected ways. Talk about throwing designers a curve ball. As a result, many designers are facing uncertainty, struggling to navigate the pace of change,...

The A-Z of Design

ARTICLE SUMMARY: Pursuing a career in design often starts with a sharp eye and creative instinct. From an early age, you recognized beauty not only in traditional art forms but in the crafted visuals that filled your everyday world. You appreciated the elegance of ad...

Human after all

ARTICLE SUMMARY: It’s become clear that Artificial Intelligence has revolutionized the design industry in unexpected ways. Talk about throwing designers a curve ball. As a result, many designers are facing uncertainty, struggling to navigate the pace of change,...

The A-Z of Design

ARTICLE SUMMARY: Pursuing a career in design often starts with a sharp eye and creative instinct. From an early age, you recognized beauty not only in traditional art forms but in the crafted visuals that filled your everyday world. You appreciated the elegance of ad...

Search Box Design Practices

ARTICLE SUMMARY: What’s the one feature no serious website should overlook? A search box. Far from being a mere convenience, it’s a fundamental part of delivering a strong user experience. Without a search box users may struggle to locate specific information,...

Understanding how to talk with executives

ARTICLE SUMMARY: You're presenting your major design concept to top executives when one casually pulls out and starts checking their phone mid-meeting. It's rude, yes, and inconsiderate. But more critically, you've lost their attention. No matter how good your ideas...

Strategy in the Face of Uncertainty

ARTICLE SUMMARY: What happens when "The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry"? You end up with uncertainty, and if not dealt with you could find yourself wondering aimlessly, not good look for designers who are supposed to be problem solvers. Strategic...

Weeding in the UX Garden

ARTICLE SUMMARY: Let’s face it, design is tough. We’re not just fixing surface-level issues, we’re digging deep to uncover what’s really going on. The UX Iceberg helps us picture that depth, but Jon Daiello thinks the dandelion might be an even better way to think...

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...

Why Buttons Are More Than Just A Design Element

ARTICLE SUMMARY: Buttons in digital design emerged in the early 1980s with GUIs like the Xerox Star and Apple Macintosh, evolving through the web and mobile eras into the touch-friendly buttons seen on smartphones today. Buttons guide users through your product,...

The Ultimate Data Visualization Handbook for Designers

ARTICLE SUMMARY: By 1950 knowledge doubled every 25 years, by 2000 knowledge would double every year. Due to advances in technology human knowledge is almost doubling every day. That’s an enormous amount of data that must be presented clearly and concisely to ensure...

The oppressive foundation of minimalist design

ARTICLE SUMMARY: There is something about minimalist design that appeals to just about everyone. It's orderly, it's elegant, and it streamlines the experience. With minimal effort, users find exactly what they need. It’s hailed as the ultimate design solution. But,...

Human after all

ARTICLE SUMMARY: It’s become clear that Artificial Intelligence has revolutionized the design industry in unexpected ways. Talk about throwing designers a curve ball. As a result, many designers are facing uncertainty, struggling to navigate the pace of change,...

The A-Z of Design

ARTICLE SUMMARY: Pursuing a career in design often starts with a sharp eye and creative instinct. From an early age, you recognized beauty not only in traditional art forms but in the crafted visuals that filled your everyday world. You appreciated the elegance of ad...

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Top 10 Tips for Creating a Personal Logo Design

ARTICLE SUMMARY: A personal logo is something many people would love to have, it's a visual representation of who they are. For designers a logo is essential to establishing their brand and communicate our skills to potential clients. There are a lot of people out...

How to draw vibrant character art, tips from a pro artist

ARTICLE SUMMARY: As designers, creativity and imagination are just the beginning. Thriving in this industry requires a blend of creative and technical skills, including a solid grasp of design principles, proficiency in tools like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator,...

You’re more influential than you think: a guide for UX designers

ARTICLE SUMMARY: UX designers often undervalue their potential influence on shaping user behaviors, business strategies, and societal norms. We feel like a cog in the machine — pushing pixels and advocating for users, yet wondering if your voice really matters....

How to Lay the Groundwork for a Solid Icon Set

ARTICLE SUMMARY: Icons play a crucial role in design, especially in modern interfaces and visual communication. When designed right, icon sets have the unique ability to transcend language. Icons provide a visual representation of a concept, action, or object, which...

What is Your Design Philosophy?

ARTICLE SUMMAR: How many designers have actually sat down one day and started pondering what they think their design philosophy is, then realized it's a more complex question then they anticipated. If you think long enough you may realize that having a design...

UX Design Challenge: Then and Now

ARTICLE SUMMARY: It’s interesting when you look back to when you first started in design and how basically between school and some experience you pretty much ready to conquer the design world. Maybe you thought there was nothing you could do to improve on the early...

Top 10 Tips for Creating a Personal Logo Design

ARTICLE SUMMARY: A personal logo is something many people would love to have, it's a visual representation of who they are. For designers a logo is essential to establishing their brand and communicate our skills to potential clients. There are a lot of people out...

How to draw vibrant character art, tips from a pro artist

ARTICLE SUMMARY: As designers, creativity and imagination are just the beginning. Thriving in this industry requires a blend of creative and technical skills, including a solid grasp of design principles, proficiency in tools like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator,...

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...

Decoding Typography: Unveiling the Art and Science

ARTICLE SUMMARY: It's been said before, you can never learn enough about type. The more we understand type the more we can take advantage it's power of communication and persuasion to our designs. The study of typography spans centuries of development and innovation...

Human after all

ARTICLE SUMMARY: It’s become clear that Artificial Intelligence has revolutionized the design industry in unexpected ways. Talk about throwing designers a curve ball. As a result, many designers are facing uncertainty, struggling to navigate the pace of change,...

Understanding how to talk with executives

ARTICLE SUMMARY: You're presenting your major design concept to top executives when one casually pulls out and starts checking their phone mid-meeting. It's rude, yes, and inconsiderate. But more critically, you've lost their attention. No matter how good your ideas...

Strategy in the Face of Uncertainty

ARTICLE SUMMARY: What happens when "The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry"? You end up with uncertainty, and if not dealt with you could find yourself wondering aimlessly, not good look for designers who are supposed to be problem solvers. Strategic...

Weeding in the UX Garden

ARTICLE SUMMARY: Let’s face it, design is tough. We’re not just fixing surface-level issues, we’re digging deep to uncover what’s really going on. The UX Iceberg helps us picture that depth, but Jon Daiello thinks the dandelion might be an even better way to think...

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...

Accessibility. It’s a Shared Responsibility

ARTICLE SUMMARY: We know as designers that accessibility has real-world impact. It empowers more people to interact, connect, and thrive using our products and services. When we design with accessibility in mind, we’re not just checking a box, we’re actively improving...

Don’t Assume, Investigate

ARTICLE SUMMARY: As designers, what do we do? We solve problems. It does not matter what the client thinks, we know better. More importantly we assume every designer thinks the same way we do. That kind of echo chamber stifles real innovation. At some point, we’ve all...

Brand Design is More Than Visuals — It’s an Experience

ARTICLE SUMMARY: Too often, brand identity gets reduced to just visuals. While it may seem similar to visual design, the two aren’t the same. Believing they are can seriously limit the impact of your messaging. Visual design focuses on aesthetics, style, colors,...

UX, how can I trust you?

ARTICLE SUMMARY: Trust is earned, not given is a powerful principle that applies across personal relationships, professional dynamics, leadership, design, branding, and more. At its essence, this phrase means trust must be earned through actions, consistency, and...

The Shape of Design to Come

ARTICLE SUMMARY: Design has always been in the state of flux. From the dawn of the digital age to the rise of Artificial Intelligence, design has never sat still. With the advances in technology the pace of change has picked up considerably. As these changes in the...

Human after all

ARTICLE SUMMARY: It’s become clear that Artificial Intelligence has revolutionized the design industry in unexpected ways. Talk about throwing designers a curve ball. As a result, many designers are facing uncertainty, struggling to navigate the pace of change,...

Understanding how to talk with executives

ARTICLE SUMMARY: You're presenting your major design concept to top executives when one casually pulls out and starts checking their phone mid-meeting. It's rude, yes, and inconsiderate. But more critically, you've lost their attention. No matter how good your ideas...

Strategy in the Face of Uncertainty

ARTICLE SUMMARY: What happens when "The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry"? You end up with uncertainty, and if not dealt with you could find yourself wondering aimlessly, not good look for designers who are supposed to be problem solvers. Strategic...