Design

  • Emotional Intelligence and the Uncomfortable Side of Design

    Emotional Intelligence and the Uncomfortable Side of Design

    Paula Borowska  •  October 24, 2016

    In March 2016, Twitter celebrated its 10th birthday. It was a day filled with pride for the company and many of its followers. In order to make the day amazing for its users,...

  • Typography Cheat Sheet [Infographic]

    Typography Cheat Sheet [Infographic]

    Diana Valeanu  •  October 17, 2016

    Understanding type can be one of the most difficult elements of design. There’s a lot of terminology and lingo that type designers (and designers, in general) use when talking...

  • Essential Skills To Become A Great UI/UX Designer

    Essential Skills To Become A Great UI/UX Designer

    Jake Rocheleau  •  October 13, 2016

    It’s frustrating to find job offers looking for a UI/UX designer. While these two skillsets are closely related, their skills don’t always overlap. A quality UI designer may...

  • Virtual Reality and Web Design: Everything You Need to Know

    Virtual Reality and Web Design: Everything You Need to Know

    Doru Ciobanu  •  October 10, 2016

    How will the web look in virtual reality? The 2D web could become immersive, interactive and tangible. Imagine Wikipedia as an extensive multimedia library. Instead of reading...

  • Is Design Cyclical? Why Styles Are Continuously Changing

    Is Design Cyclical? Why Styles Are Continuously Changing

    Ben Bate  •  September 26, 2016

    Note: Use of “design” largely refers to design style, specifically mobile and web, for this article. I was recently looking through some screenshots of apps from...

  • How Changing the UX 180 Degrees Made Grew Sales By 180%

    How Changing the UX 180 Degrees Made Grew Sales By 180%

    Gery Meleg  •  September 19, 2016

    Bannersnack’s Design Journey and Case Study Were you ever asked to fully change the experience and UI of a product that is used by more than 3 million people? Well, it...

  • What is an Interaction Designer?

    What is an Interaction Designer?

    Carrie Cousins  •  September 15, 2016

    These two little words are being used a lot in the design sphere these days. But what truly is interaction design? And what makes you an interaction designer? Here, we’ll answer...

  • 5 Ways Creative Web Designers Work on Awesome Websites

    5 Ways Creative Web Designers Work on Awesome Websites

    Andrian  •  September 14, 2016

    An awesome website created by a talented and creative web designer is a thing to behold. Websites like these, set the bar so high that even approaching that level of...

  • Why Designers and Web Developers Must Work Together

    Why Designers and Web Developers Must Work Together

    Carrie Cousins  •  September 9, 2016

    It seems like a common sense idea: Designers and developers must work together. But too often, these individuals work apart while working on the very same project. The designer...

  • Wireframing, Prototyping, Mockuping – What’s the Difference?

    Wireframing, Prototyping, Mockuping – What’s the Difference?

    Marcin Treder  •  September 8, 2016

    Introduction I’m very happy to welcome you all to the first part of this online course on wireframing and creating design documentation. I hope you’ll all have fun and learn...