Monsieur Bézier and his elegant curves
Design essentials: Bézier curves.
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Unsplash: Where are all the women?
As a UX designer, I am often tasked with making user personas to better understand a target audience for a product or service. For this particular client, I was working with, they told me their core user group were women age fifty and older. I was surprised, this demographic is often overlooked in t..
You look creative, but you sound like a bank
How understanding tone of voice can help architects, designers and creative businesses win work and get noticed.
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Elevating your aesthetics for beautiful business outcomes
Why great design is a must for everyone.
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What no one explains about the design process
The UX industry puts a lot of emphasis on processes. But is that the best way to think fundamentally about design?
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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 ..
Illustration Teardowns: Refactoring Old Work
We all hate to look at our old work. Yuk! Blech! But as songwriters say “it’s all in the rewrite”!Girl sketching on iPad (refactored from several years ago 🙌🏽)As I come up close to the end of my current contract I find myself in that “what’s next” place where I need to get out and promote myself som..
The grand illusion
We live in a simulation. Just not the one you’re thinking of.
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A deep dive into those dots on Jira Kanban cards
Is there a pattern to the madness?
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You bought a pixel for $1.4 million
I have some bad news for you
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