Originally published on JOTFORM.COM Cozy. That’s how I felt. Tucked beneath what may have been the world’s softest blanket. I took a deep breath and rolled onto my side. It was a familiar moment — the moment when my 6 a.m. alarm clock sounded, after a night of tossing and turning. The moment when my daily responsibilities had yet to… Read More ￫

Header image: Copyright MSTQ, Inc. Open Instagram, Airbnb, Apple Music, Twitter, Dropbox or Lyft and at first glance it might feel like it’s hard to tell the difference between which app is which: big, bold headlines with rounded sans-serif fonts; minimal black and white interfaces with lots of negative space; little to no color. The modern interface style feels so bare-bones…. Read More ￫

Rationally choosing the irrational Why do people keep buying Apple products if they are not technically great and there are better value alternatives? Why do people keep eating at McDonald’s if the food is so bad for your health? I was asking myself these type of questions lately, and I realised that it has to do with the part of… Read More ￫

We are laser focused on changing how design is done, by making it more inclusive, collaborative and productive. Marvel is used by millions of people with ever varying use cases, from design, to sales, to development – and it’s our goal to keep our platform versatile and scalable. So read on to get the full recap on how Marvel has evolved… Read More ￫

Design systems, design systems everywhere. I’m pretty sure that you have heard that term a thousand times last week, and more than you will, design system is one of the trends in product design particularly, that big companies such as Airbnb, Uber, Lyft, and others are adapting and putting into practice when building their products and seems that has come… Read More ￫

I often take my coffee at a place with a 3 stars rating on Google, but it serves one of the best coffees in the city. The reviews come from two people who had once a bad experience. And Google shows to everyone that it has 3/5 stars without saying that it is one the best places to have a… Read More ￫

Digital interfaces make a huge impact in our lives. We frequently use websites or digital applications to accomplish certain goals. Indeed, when interacting with an interface, we are surrounded by typography and our experience is driven by the words and messages we read and understand. In one of his articles, Oliver Reichenstein confirms the importance of typography in all websites… Read More ￫

It’s been a couple of weeks now, two, as I’m writing this, since I got the email. I’d had a super long day so I was lying down feeling sorry for myself when I saw this: Hi Viba, I came across your application and am impressed by your experience and design work. I work on hiring students for our Product… Read More ￫

This month’s post is a compilation of what our product designer at Marvel, Maxime, found inspiring this month in design. 3D: The new illustration trend for 2019? 2017 & 2018 were the years where 3D was more prominent than ever before. Pokemon Go reached 500 million downloads. We saw Apple releasing their new Animoji’s and Memoji’s. IKEA launched Place, an… Read More ￫

A better way to organise your designs At Marvel, we understand how important organisation is when building prototypes. Projects can quickly scale to hundreds of screens, making them difficult to manage, present and collaborate on. That’s why we created Sections, it solves all this in an easy to use and intuitive format. Sections helps you organise screens and makes it… Read More ￫

The Rise of the Emoji It all began long ago with facial expressions made out of punctuation – labelled emoticons: : – ) : – ( ; – ) 8 – D The first emojis that resemble our beloved of today were created by a Japanese artist in 1999 and were officially ‘born’ into mainstream social media culture in 2011… Read More ￫

Welcome to our new series directly from the Marvel dev team. You’ll find us back here every month at the same time, dropping some details on what we’ve shipped the past 30 days. iOS Photo Roll ???? This month we released a few updates to the Marvel and POP by Marvel iOS apps, to improve your experience and help you… Read More ￫