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“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” -Aristotle Collaboration is a practice where individual contributors work as a team to achieve a certain goal. It relies on the individual qualities such as self-organization, motivation, engagement and ability to deliver the work. It is essential to be focused and open in order to collaborate successfully. The magic of… Read More ￫

Oh, the hamburger menu. An icon of three stacked lines (two buns and the meat in the middle) used to represent a menu. Clicking/Tapping on the icon reveals available navigation options. A lot of posts have been written about the hamburger menu, mostly by designers, arguing against it. If you missed all, read Hidden Navigation Hurt UX Metrics by NNGroup…. Read More ￫

The journey from a basic idea to a great product requires clear communication and close collaboration between design and development teams. In this post we are discussing why and how engineers should be a part of the design process, how to create shared understanding and how to build a better design and development culture. This post is written in co-authorship… Read More ￫

As a startup founder, one of the most common questions I’m asked is: “How can you do both design and development, as well as business tasks?” I’m an iOS & macOS developer first, having been coding since I was 13 years old. However, currently, I’m doing all the design tasks for my startup  —  Flawless App. It’s a tool for… Read More ￫

Last summer I switched teams at Facebook. My first project seemed simple enough: redesign the sign up flow for Facebook Lite, an app for low-end Android phones. I couldn’t wait to start the project. It seemed like a textbook design problem. “Reduce confusion and friction for people signing up for your product.” Got it. I did what many of us… Read More ￫

We have a great opportunity at my company right now: our platform has been developing daily in the last years, but this has happened although we lack a clear process of thinking content embedded in new features. So it’s about time we jump into that gap and fill it with some well developed UX Writing. “We lack a clear process… Read More ￫

We revisitChartmogulto take a look at some of the changes and trends in SaaS landing page design in 2017. This expanded analysis looks at the landing pages of over 100 SaaS businesses of all sizes — with some powerful insights! Our last landing page analysis is still one the most popular articles on ChartMogul. Given that it’s been 18 months… Read More ￫

In this two-part blog series, we will be exploring the impact of design on LogoGrab and the importance of hiring a designer for any company. Part One will delve into the world of design, exploring the trials and tribulations of hiring a skilled designer. I recently spoke with Luca Boschin, the CEO from innovative logo detection company, LogoGrab and a… Read More ￫

“To learn philosophy, begin by delving into a single philosopher.” That’s what my history teacher told me in the last year of high school. And although I’ve never really learned much from philosophy, this line has been guiding me whenever I need to immerse myself into a new field of study. Leaving newsrooms and publishing houses to enter a technology… Read More ￫

Everything that surrounds you is a product of design. The watch you’re wearing, the pen you’re using, even that paper calendar cube on your desk that you almost never use. It was someone’s job to sit down and come up with it from scratch. We have all kinds of designers nowadays. Product, industrial, graphic, interior, UI – you name it…. Read More ￫

I’m one of those designers who use Windows as a primary operating system. I also have moderate experience with Linux and almost none with macOS. After recent Microsoft and Apple press conferences, there was a significant upset from Apple users and some of them were considering to switch over to Windows. I decided to layout my workflow and what software… Read More ￫

Making errors is an integral part of the way we humans live. We trip over when we are learning to walk and we press the wrong buttons when we use new UI. This fact is very unlikely to change soon. As Designers, we must have that in mind when designing. Our designs must be aimed at preventing errors happening. Design… Read More ￫