What are your design maxims?
A few things I have learned along the way about design and business that have stood the test of time.My design career — if I can call it that — has now spanned multiple decades. The first thing I created that I would consider a proper design was a seven-inch record for a friend’s band sometime in th..
A look at design handoffs
You have dreamed of this very moment. The time has come when all of your hard work, perhaps months of research, designing, stakeholder reviews, maybe some tears is finally being put into implementation. That beautiful moment every Designer waits for: Engineering Handoff.
You think to yourself: “go m..
Instagram can’t touch the visual glory of blank VHS tapes
The arranged marriage between color and typography lives onA Retape 180 blank VHS tape. Source: WallHaven.A thing of beauty will never fade away. Those blank VHS tapes from the 80s? They look just as good in 2021. Vibrant Instagram images with layers of filters can’t hold a candle to these boxes in ..
3,360 Figma variants, is graphic design too trendy, is Framer still alive?
Weekly curated resources for designers who are thinkers as much as they’re makers. Brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective.Before the introduction of Variants, it was cumbersome to navigate a Figma asset library for components with multiple states or characteristics. More painful still w..
Tools to invent better futures
Experimental tools to align speculative and futures design with core values and life-centred thinking.
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Peek like a Geek, steal like the greatest
How to use metaphors to gain an understanding of your customers mental model?
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If men hate shopping, why do they still lead so many retail companies?
Insights from 30 years of watching men and women shop and manage retail companies
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This is what Apple’s touch bar should have been
Apple’s Touch Bar may be on its way out, but it could have been different if it behaved like the Elgato Stream Deck
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The Barnum Effect and the sweet nothings of astrology
Personalisation can sometimes be generalised.Source: Tessa Portuese on DribbbleYour horoscope: “You enjoy being spontaneous in life but also like well-planned decisions sometimes. You are loyal and respectful towards people who’re loyal and respect you back. You are usually an optimistic person but ..
How to create personas based on science that actually work
It is quite difficult, if not almost impossible, to obtain a personality profile of one single individual let alone to create a persona…
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