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We’re at a place where it’s trendy to be in User Experience. That’s a huge victory for the profession, but we need to fight to not let it be cheapened by thinking just anyone can do it. Just like not everyone is fit to be a doctor or a carpenter or an astronaut.
A CONFERENCE FOR WEB PROFESSIONALS WHO LOVE THEIR COMMUNITY, THE WEB, AND LEARNING.
Intuition is grounded in reality, it cannot be quantified or explained with numbers. The trouble is, the more we look to the numbers to help make our decisions, the less we use our intuition.
In February 2014, I made a recommendation to my co-founders at Ballistiq that I wanted to cancel development of ArtStation. The project was in development hell. It wasn’t going anywhere. I was unhappy with it and just couldn’t see a path for it to be a successful product. Two months later we managed to launch […]
I’ve seen countless articles written on typeface pairing and systems, and nearly all of them push towards using fewer families in any given design. I’ve seen similar comments made towards my own work, implying that they are pleasing despite the number of typefaces they use.
Responsive web design is evolving considerably every day. But not every business is able to implement responsive web design on sites, the right way. Also, it is important to know that responsive design is a process of continual improvement.
Telling the story of your data
There are many fundamental principles of art & design which are crucial for every web designer to understand. One such principle is negative space, also known as white space. The use of white space can be difficult to explain but it’s much more obvious via example.
“Treat your job interview like a design problem.” This week, we asked design leaders to share their advice on how to be successful during a job interview.
There are only a handful of fundamental patterns that create all of the natural diversity around us. Nature’s patterns perform three basic tasks that get the work of the universe done by moving, storing and connecting energy.