Everyone can make use of code today: entrepreneurs, designers, artists, a 10-year-old girl, or a 90-year-old man. Also, anyone can learn to code if they try — I wrote about it before, concluding you don’t need a degree to be any good: I’m Not Smart, I Just Sat There for Longer Than YouIf anyone’s struggling with coding, or just learning… Read More ￫

For five years, LETO have been bringing a little sunshine to their clients’ workdays. Their team helps clients, both large and small – from Startups to corporates – to optimise their digital products tying in with their business objectives. To do so, they’ve adopted the Google Ventures design sprint process into the problem solving solutions they offer, resulting in an… Read More ￫

If anyone’s struggling with coding, or just learning something difficult, this post might give you some sort of weird hope. I can code in a few languages and I have studied computer science, so why when people tell me I’m an awesome developer, do I have the feeling they’re wrong? I usually will respond with something like: “I’m not great,… Read More ￫

Color is a powerful force in the hands of a designer. It draws your eye, evokes emotion, and communicates meaning. To give you an idea of how important color is, in a widely cited study titled The Impact of Color on Marketing, researchers discovered that for some products, 90% of snap decisions people make about products could be based on… Read More ￫

We are in an exciting age of design: Welcome to a new era in history where our bodies, heaters, cars, bedrooms, streets and well — just about everything is beginning to become an interface. “Just about everything is beginning to become an interface.” This article will present a number of exciting technologies and various interfaces to interact with them, as well as… Read More ￫

It’s common practice to see a project and purpose evolve over time, sometimes into something entirely different to when the idea is first cooked up. Timur Daudpota, COO & Co-Founder of Blurbiz, talks to us about the journey of his career and building Blurbiz, a SaaS platform which allows users to create and publish vertical videos, birthed from selling unique… Read More ￫

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It would be an understatement to say that the internet turned the music industry on its head. However, out of the ashes rose streaming services which have revolutionised the way that we consume music. There are the major players we’re fairly familiar with but Sony and Universal’s joint venture, NOW Music+, is one that has got us talking. Everyone knows… Read More ￫

Style guides can give many benefits to the entire workflow, from design right through to build. In short… During the design phase style guides encourage consistency in the visual identity and help keep the interface system as logical as possible, which makes for a better UX. “During the design phase style guides encourage consistency.” During the development phase they streamline… Read More ￫

There’s no hard or fast rule here. You can find an illustration style that maps to both the voice of your core product, as well as your marketing voice. Particularly as a small startup — both sides are basically trying to say “we think this idea trucking rules, just give us a minute to show you.” At Shopify, however, because we are… Read More ￫

Usability testing is a helpful tool when it comes to informing and validating design decisions. What was once thought of as the responsibility of just information architects or user experience designers is now a tool available to anyone. This is great because the more accessible user tests are, the easier it is to incorporate data and analysis into your design… Read More ￫

Providing users with a seamless experience while using your interface is a popular goal when building digital products. Modern-day devices and software enable complex animated transitions between elements on your screen, and as designers, we should embrace this development for a better user experience. But how do you define good animated transitions? “Good animation is invisible. You shouldn’t notice that… Read More ￫