This is how design principles help you declutter visualizations
The skill you may not have realized you had
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Is service design the new change management?
Organizational change can be compared to product change. It is also a design process. How a change is introduced to users (customers or…
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Applying the Panofsky method to your own design
If you are unfamiliar with the Panofsky method it comes from Erwin Panofsky, a German art historian who in 1932 looked into the study of…
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My love letter to Adobe Flash
How Flash changed my life and what it has taught me about the future.https://medium.com/media/c961471ebb81d1ab3d20c4460e9f2b48/hrefFor those of us who came of age in the Dot Com Boom of the late ’90s and early 2000s, Flash was one of the most creatively liberating web technologies to ever come along..
UX designers: don’t neglect visual design
A mistake, especially common among junior UX designers.
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What 21st-century design looks like
Don Norman and decolonial design.iMattSmart @UnsplashBack in October 2020 I had the pleasure to attend Don Norman’s Master Class transmitted by Interaction Design Foundation in which he presented the challenges to the discipline of Design and to all designers in the 21st century. To help me grasp a ..
It’s time we say goodbye to pixel units
Why responsive and accessible websites don’t really need ‘em.Photo by Sigmund on UnsplashIf you design or develop websites, do not use px units. Absolute units (px, in, mm, cm, pt, and pc) are as bad for accessibility and responsive design as using tables for layout. Of all the available absolute un..
Social media for the people
How elected officials can better communicate with all of their constituents online
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Designers: mind your language
I sometimes wonder how the design community — a group of people who pride themselves on their empathy and ability to communicate clearly — have been able to create such an unapproachable profession. For outsiders, the litany of buzzwords, methodologies, and rules can at best confuse newcomers, and a..
NFT for designers, Google’s UX degree, Figma accessibility kit
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are unique and distinct bitcoin assets. While one Bitcoin is identical to and interchangeable with another, each NFT is unique, with distinguishing metadata and identification codes. NFTs are certificates of a..
