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The Google Workspace (and Microsoft Suite) have always been horizontal tools for knowledge workers. Now, we’re seeing purpose-built tools for those who want to stand out A. Don’t have much time? Here’s the TL;DR Google search is dying The recent discussion around the decline of Google Search got us thinking. So, we turned our focus […]
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Raymond Loewy and the birth of the design discipline Raymond Loewy and his passion for brilliant products Like many UX designers, I didn’t aspire to be a UX designer when I was young. And like some of you converted UX designers, I did want to design products when I grew up. Physical products, appliances, shiny, […]
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How to untangle design dilemmas When designing products, our thought process can sometimes feel similar to a driver encountering road blocks and taking detours to reach the desired destination. As we’re designing, we pass through countless dilemmas which crop up and get in the way of us reaching our intended outcome. The space between our […]
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The success and perils of Productised Design Services. Brett from DesignJoy shared the ups and downs of his design service journey, plus more!
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Max spent lockdown learning 3D design, leading to a venture into NFTs. He shares the stigmas and challenges of entering the NFT space.
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Peter Cho explores ambition, ego, and self-reflection as he ponders on what drives our deepest design career desires.
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Localisation is often perceived as simple text translations across different languages. However, it goes beyond just some alphabets and letters.
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Remote collaboration is a vital tool. Figma, InVision, and Mural were first to replace whiteboards with digital spaces, prioritising real-time collaboration
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The driving force behind my relentless mission to create digital fonts for Afrikan writing systems, one letter at a time. In this case study I’ll walk you through the process of designing a font for the Bassa Vah Alphabet. The name ‘Bassa’ and a Bassa proverb. Background Bassa language is spoken by about 600 000 […]
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The process of creating a font for the Mwangwego script. How to design fonts that support writing systems which aren't Unicode encoded.
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Do we really own the content we upload? Can we trust companies to safeguard our data? How Web 3 and Web Monetization can save us from Web 2.
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Web Monetization is the process of converting website views into revenue using open technology. What does it mean web design and developers?
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Localisation isn't just translation. From Typography to colour, here's how to localise your product for different cultures and regions.
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The web should be an inclusive place for anyone. Let's look at how Internationalisation and Localisation can help you server a wider audience.
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The Russo-Ukrainian war began in February 2014, in the wake of ‘Euromaidan’. This month, February 2022, Russia launched a devastating attack on Ukraine by land, air, and sea...
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What do we want? Openly accessible, quality design content! When do we want it? Well, permanently, actually… Earlier this month, whoops and hollers rang out from Prototypr HQ as we became awardees of a flagship grant from Grant For the Web/Interledger — and we’re planning on doing great things with it. We’re developing Prototypr to […]
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Democratising Design Education with a Web Monetised Publishing Platform In support of our work building an open and accessible platform for designers, we’re proud to announce a flagship grant of $99,370.00 from Grant for the Web. ✨ This flagship project will develop Prototypr as an inclusive Web Monetized publishing platform for designers, that rewards contributors […]
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When no feedback = good feedback. I’ve just spent an entire workweek doing work that no one will really see. Nobody will care about it, nobody will thank me for it...
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In UX research, finding participants can often stand in the way of getting to your next big breakthrough.
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One or two decades ago, the UX Designer profession was not booming as it now is. I started to design my first UI, in 2008. It was a website of a pipe company, named Wavin. I've
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UI Tips are everywhere - Do's and Don'ts of UI Design. Are they clickbait, or are they misleading beginners?
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Emoji cross-platform translation could be insignificant. Emojis are encoded and represented by Unicode standard, just as any text character.
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Recently I created a nice lazy-loading image effect for some drag and drop menu items in my app. Images in a side menu start off with a loading shimmer effect, and then fluidly grow to their correct height and fade in when loaded: Your browser does not support the video tag.Lazy loading skeleton images 💡 […]
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This first part of the series I’m going to focus on building out a design system as my new journey as an Adobe XD Ambassador.
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