Deliveroo has been the talk of the town in design for the last couple of months. Their new visual identity sparked conversation and drove attention to the fast moving startup – which launched in 2013 and now has over 20,000 riders and operates in 12 different markets. Last month lead Deliveroo designers, Courtney McNeil and Simon Rohrbach, spoke to the… Read More ￫

Got a good idea? Move it from minimum viable product to launch without losing your shirt. The steady rise of makers I just arrived home from Barcelona and was catching up with a friend (we’ll call him Lee). As we’re talking, I notice a roll of batteries wrapped in black electrical tape sitting upright on a chessboard. “What’s that?,” I… Read More ￫

“I will answer very simply, that the internet will disappear… It will be part of your presence all the time.” That was Eric Schmidt talking on a panel about the future of the web last year. He’s referencing a vision of the future which, not too long ago would have felt very much a work of science fiction. But today,… Read More ￫

Every time you visit a website, a process of learning is initiated in the brain. Whether it’s the navigation, layout, or that auto-rotating image slider on the homepage, your brain has to learn how to use the site while keeping track of the reason you came there in the first place. The mental effort required during this time is called… Read More ￫

I often receive emails asking; How I became self-taught designer? If I can recommend any book, course? If I have any advise? Rather than keep replying to emails individually, I wanted to write this short post. I will be talking about design, but the things you will be reading can be applied to pretty much everything. “There is no university… Read More ￫

“Writing code with Git is hard. Writing code without it is unthinkable.” Or anyone who really wants to use it but has no idea how Writing code is hard. For every 1 minute of bliss typing characters in the computer and seeing it render things that didn’t exist before, there are 10 minutes of frustration with unreadable code and bugs… Read More ￫

Part I: Experience is everything The origin of imagination Around 70,000 years ago, Sapiens figuratively ate an apple from the Tree of Knowledge, and a mutation occurred that scientists still can’t explain to this day. According to Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, between 70,000 and 30,000 years ago, new ways of thinking and communicating… Read More ￫

The basics of design sprints and other jargon When was the last time you physically visited a travel agent? Probably a long time right? Thanks to the rise of the world wide web and the multitude of devices that now exist in our lives – going in store to book a holiday became completely irrelevant. Not only because you’re bound… Read More ￫

Okay, I’ll be honest with you right away. The title is a little misleading. I started learning Swift 4 months ago and I knew some coding before that. But I have never created a native app for any platform. Thinking about it now, I had no idea what I was up against… For you to understand the how I did… Read More ￫

Snap is a free UI kit for Sketch containing over 50 screens and dozens of useful elements such as buttons icons and forms. Check out the prototype and download link below: Download UI Kit

And quite honestly, it’s not a mistake that is unique to the design profession. I’m guilty of it myself, and I see it all the time with very talented designers… If there is one change that you could make right now that will make the world of difference in your business, it’s this: Leave more margin I stumbled upon the… Read More ￫

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