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techcrunch.com May 29, 2017
Why Tom Kelley of IDEO is the ultimate disciple of ‘design thinking’

In our 16th episode, we talk with Tom Kelly, a partner at IDEO, about the definition of innovation, how to take back your creative confidence, and the habits that can shape not only your current design team, but the up-and-coming design leaders of the world.
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webflow.com May 25, 2017
Examples of unique website layouts

The site begins with a photo filling the entire viewport (bonus points if it’s an overhead shot of a designer’s desk). Floating above the photo on a soft bed of text-shadow: a headline, some teaser copy, and a giant call-to-action button.
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webdesignerdepot.com May 22, 2017
Popular Design News of the Week: May 22, 2017 – May 28, 2017

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers.
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abduzeedo.com May 30, 2017
Incredible Graphic Design Process for a Poster by Partee Design

In this post you wills see an amazing poster collection by Quim Marin, a designer from Barcelona, Spain. His style is really simple, using shapes, colors, and typography these posters come to life with a really strong message. Enjoy! For more from Quim Marin visit quimmarin.com, and behance.
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antonsten.com May 25, 2017
Why Designers Need to Write

A couple of years ago, there was a huge discussion online about whether or not designers should know how to code. The people who believed this argued that unless you know how to build what you design, you aren’t able to understand if it’s doable or not.
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css-tricks.com May 25, 2017
What is the Future of Front End Web Development?

I was asked to do a little session on this the other day. I'd say I'm underqualified to answer the question, as is any single person. If you really needed hard answers to this question, you'd probably look to aggregate data of survey results from lots of developers. I am a little qualified though.
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uxplanet.org May 25, 2017
Information Architecture. Basics for Designers.

The World Wide Web contains a tremendous amount of information which is hard to imagine unstructured because a human brain wouldn’t be able to perceive any single thing. People got used to seeing content and functionality of the digital products as many of them are now: structured and easy to use.
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abduzeedo.com May 29, 2017
Thoughts on: What should be my design title?

What should be my design title? This is a different approach from our usual inspirational features, hope you will follow along.
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jalopnik.com May 24, 2017
A Design Engineer Explains Exactly Why Your Car Is So Boring

Imagine you’ve just been hired as a design engineer at a major automotive manufacturer. Your boss introduces himself and says “Hey, are you ready to design the most innovative, mind-blowing, original car you’ve ever seen?” Now stop imagining that, because your boss isn’t going to say that.
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inc.com May 27, 2017
How I Create 10x Content Using Graphic Guides

Content and graphics have always worked side by side. Think back to the picture books you used to read as a kid. Without the pictures, the story wouldn't have been as great, right? The same goes for your brand's content.
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thenextweb.com May 18, 2017
How using Design Thinking will fix Design Thinking

Design Thinking continues to be a hot topic (this article is one of many talking about it). Design Thinking has been hyped and even fetishized but there are also voices questioning its value, impact, and relevance.
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firstround.com
Defining Product Design: A Dispatch from Airbnb's Design Chief

This article is by Alex Schleifer, VP of Design at Airbnb. Prior to his current role, he was the SVP of Design and Creative Director of Say Media. He also co-founded creative digital agency Sideshow and UX Magazine, where he ran editorial until its acquisition.
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hbr.org September 1, 2015
Design Thinking Comes of Age

Increasingly, corporations and professional services firms are working to create design-centric cultures. Many products, services, and processes are now technologically complex. People are not hardwired to deal well with high levels of complexity. They need help.
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medium.com August 18, 2014
The Dribbblisation of Design

There are divergent things happening in the product and interaction design community. On one hand, we have some amazing pieces of writing from the likes of Ryan Singer and Julie Zhuo, moving our craft forward.
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theverge.com November 16, 2015
Former Apple designers say the company has lost 'the fundamental principles of good design'

Two early Apple designers have written a piece on Co.Design chastising Apple's new design direction, which they claim puts elegance and visual simplicity over understandability and ease of use.
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fastcodesign.com January 26, 2017
Thinking Beyond The Interface

Around 2010, designers the world over proclaimed Photoshop was dead in web design. We moved away from static comps, learned to prototype, and invested our time in tools like Sketch and Axure and designing directly in code. Pixel-perfect comps were finally dead, and it was awesome.
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nirandfar.com February 22, 2017
Don’t Ask People What They Want, Watch What They Do

Nir’s Note: Irene Au is a design partner at Khosla Ventures and former Head of Design at Google, Yahoo, and Udacity. She’ll be speaking at the upcoming Habit Summit in April. (You can register here!) In this interview, she chats with Max Ogles about design strategy for startups.
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sachagreif.com February 12, 2013
Flat Pixels : The Battle Between Flat Design And Skeuomorphism

If you're paying attention to what's going on in the design world, you've probably noticed the ongoing debate around skeuomorphism vs flat design. So here's a quick test. Which of these two calculators feature a skeuomorphic design?
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randsinrepose.com January 16, 2012
A Design Primer for Engineers

For a word that can so vastly change the fortunes of a company, it’s worth noting that no generally accepted definition of the word design exists.
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fastcodesign.com March 14, 2017
Forget Coding: Writing Is Design’s “Unicorn Skill”

These days many designers can code–an increasingly important skill for landing a job. But few are just as fluent in their own language as they are in Javascript. That presents a serious problem in terms of design. Users still depend on copy to interact with apps and other products.
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smashingmagazine.com July 16, 2013
Authentic Design – Smashing Magazine

The recently popularized “flat” interface style is not merely a trend. It is the manifestation of a desire for greater authenticity in design, a desire to curb visual excess and eliminate the fake and the superfluous.
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52weeksofux.com January 5, 2010
52 weeks of UX A discourse on the process of designing for real people

The user experience is made up of all the interactions a person has with your brand, company, or organization.
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library.gv.com April 11, 2017
Everyone is a designer. Get over it.

Recently, Jared Spool caught my attention with an article about how Netflix’s performance engineers are actually designers. It’s a provocative idea, but it makes sense.
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blog.kissmetrics.com April 5, 2017
Here’s How I Built and Launched a SaaS Company For Less Than $40k

About 6 months ago I decided that I was going to build a SaaS company from scratch. I had recently sold my company and found myself in discussions with a number of startups around making angel investments.
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addyosmani.com
Learning JavaScript Design Patterns

Design patterns are reusable solutions to commonly occurring problems in software design. They are both exciting and a fascinating topic to explore in any programming language.
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medium.com October 18, 2016
64 People You Should Know in Design

When starting out a career in design, it’s helpful to know some of the great practitioners in your field so you can follow their work and use their career progression as guidance to plan your own.
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smashingmagazine.com November 7, 2016
What Everyone Should Know About The Process Behind App Design – Smashing Magazine

I realized something the other day: I’ve been designing apps for nine years now! So much has changed since the early days and, it feels like developers and designers have been through a rollercoaster of evolutions and trends.
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webflow.com May 12, 2015
Always choose prototypes over mockups

Before I tell you about the awesome solution, let me paint a picture of the not-so-cool problem. Designers generally create site designs using Photoshop or Illustrator—using multiple layers and files to show different pages, hover states, and screen sizes.
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thenextweb.com March 10, 2017
The future of cards in Web design

You’ve been seeing those rectangular boxes on a lot of websites lately, right? Those are cards, and they’re popping up more and more. But don’t mistake cards for being a mere trend or simply eye-candy.
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wells.ee
Less Aesthetic, More Design

Talk about “Flat Design” has exploded over the last two or three weeks. It’s almost become as much of a meme as Skeuomorphism became a few months ago. There’s a critical piece of this discussion missing – that’s got to stop.
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ia.net March 1, 2013
Learning to See

Learning to design is learning to see, an adventure that gets more and more captivating the further you go. A love letter to my profession. Our mind is not a camera. Seeing is not a passive act.
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heliom.ca August 6, 2013
A Responsive Web Design Process

Despite the huge amount of knowledge being shared on the subject of responsive design, I get the feeling that the workflow is still very mysterious.
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fastcodesign.com May 30, 2012
Can We Please Move Past Apple's Silly, Faux-Real UIs?

In recent years, the aesthetic of UIs has followed a dominant ideology that attempts to replicate the physical world.
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blog.froont.com December 4, 2014
A brief history of web design for designers

My interest in coding my designs was lost at the the moment I realized how much trickery had to be done to make it happen. Seemingly simple issues could be solved in so many ways. Yet it still might not have worked on some browsers.
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jasonsantamaria.com
A Real Web Design Application

The web and its related disciplines have grown organically. I think it’s safe to say the web is not the domain of just the geeks anymore—we all live here. And those of us who work here should have sophisticated, native tools to do our jobs.
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wired.com March 15, 2017
John Maeda: If You Want to Survive in Design, You Better Learn to Code

Silicon Valley finally understands the essential role of design. Products look better than ever, interfaces feel intuitive, and companies are hiring designers at an increasing rate. But the designer’s role in tech is changing. It’s no longer enough to iterate and understand your user.
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thenextweb.com March 10, 2017
The history of flat design: How efficiency and minimalism turned the digital world flat

It seems as though any time you hear about Web design these days, you can’t help but come across the term “flat design.
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medium.com August 6, 2014
Designing the new Foursquare

Today we released the latest version of Foursquare to the world. We crafted, designed and engineered this version from the ground up, and today you can download it. Earlier this year we sat down as a company and looked at all the amazing pieces of technology we had built.
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smashingmagazine.com January 27, 2016
Is The Internet Killing Creativity? – Smashing Magazine

The internet is a wonderful place (mostly). An unprecedented revolution in communication, it continues to empower more people to publish and share their knowledge than any other phenomenon in history. It is a limitless playground of ideas and unbridled creativity. Or is it?
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elischiff.com February 16, 2016
Uber's Atomic Meltdown

Most of us have come to accept the new Uber redesign as normal–after all, it has been a whole two weeks since its reveal. Nevertheless, it is well worth examining this prime example of both design and managerial dysfunction.
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uxbooth.com October 27, 2015
Complete Beginner’s Guide to Interaction Design

Interaction design has its origins in web and graphic design, but has grown into a realm of its own.
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design.google.com October 26, 2016
Design Is Never Done

Design is the art of continuous problem solving—an active cycle of investigating and validating needs, crafting and developing ideas, and creating solutions. Over the course of its life, a digital product is shaped by many hands.
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blog.teamtreehouse.com December 26, 2012
Learn5 Design Tips Every Developer Should Know

Great code and great design need each other to work well. Unfortunately, people with poor visual design skills often think they lack natural ability. In other words, there’s a common belief that you’re either born with the gift of aesthetic super powers, or you’re not.
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ar.al December 30, 2017
Aral Balkan Design is not veneer.

This is a response to the article How to make your site look halfdecent in half an hour by Anna PowellSmith on 24 ways. I apologised for the way I reacted to the article on Twitter in a previous note.
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smashingmagazine.com March 25, 2014
A Modern Designer's Canvas – Smashing Magazine

When I gave this talk a title, I called it “A Modern Designer’s Canvas,” because originally I was going to talk about the tools and processes that I use when I’m designing. But being a good designer or developer is about so much more than knowing how to use tools.
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fastcodesign.com July 7, 2014
UI, UX: Who Does What? A Designer’s Guide To The Tech Industry

Design is a rather broad and vague term. When someone says “I’m a designer,” it is not immediately clear what they actually do day to day. There are a number of different responsibilities encompassed by the umbrella term designer.
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thehipperelement.com February 4, 2017
UX Crash Course: 31 Fundamentals

My New Year’s Resolution for 2014 was to get more people started in User Experience (UX) Design. I posted one lesson every day in January, and hundreds of thousands of people came to learn! Below you will find links to all 31 daily lessons.
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designschool.canva.com June 30, 2015
Airbnb, Uber and Mailchimp: Inside the Web Design Style Guides of 10 Brands We Love

There are websites that we could stare at for hours. They’re different, addictive, and well crafted to the pixel. Before the Internet, brands had to rely on limited channels like print ads, TV commercials, billboards, and all sorts of print collateral to share their stories.
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medium.com August 15, 2013
How to Work with Designers

Once, a long time ago, I was a product manager. Then, I was an engineer. For the past seven years, I’ve been in design. Every single day, I work with people in all of these roles.
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fastcodesign.com January 4, 2016
The Most Important Design Jobs Of The Future

Yesterday’s graphic designers are today’s UX designers. Will tomorrow’s UX designers be avatar programmers, fusionists, and artificial organ designers? Yes, according to the illustrious roster of design leaders we spoke with here.
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theverge.com October 18, 2014
Watch Jony Ive explain Apple's design process in a rare public interview

Earlier this month, Apple chief designer Jony Ive appeared on stage for a rare interview during the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit. You can now watch the 25-minute-long interview on YouTube.
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library.gv.com April 15, 2013
Why you should move that button 3px to the left

When a product is close to launch, I become a perfectionist. Each misaligned element or awkward interaction is like a thorn in my side. There’ll be a dozen tiny implementation mistakes that taunt me each time I run into them. Everything seems so broken.
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thenextweb.com March 10, 2017
5 psychology secrets for great interaction design

It’s becoming more important every day for your designs to connect more with users and include a “human element.” Website and user experience design needs to feel real, from aesthetics to interactions to motion (perceived and real) to emotional connection.
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kruzeniski.com April 11, 2011
Mike Kruzeniski – How Print Design is the Future of Interaction

This post describes “How Print Design is the Future of Interaction,” a talk I gave at SXSW Interactive on March 12, 2011. The slides from the talk are available to view on Slideshare, and you can see some of the discussion that followed on Twitter here.
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design.tutsplus.com April 2, 2009
50 Totally Free Lessons in Graphic Design Theory

While many of us can create something that looks good in Photoshop or attractive when spliced into CSS, but do we actually understand the design theory behind what we create? Theory is the missing link for many un-trained but otherwise talented designers.
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elezea.com September 3, 2013
An agency workflow for Responsive Web Design

I’ve been thinking about workflows for Responsive Web Design quite a bit, particularly since it’s now become our default approach on every new project (similar to Cloud Four’s recent change of heart).
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medium.com April 5, 2017
Tara Mann walks the line between weird and sensible

Tara Mann’s love for architecture and gadgets led her into the world of interaction design. We chatted about where she draws her inspiration from, how she makes her designs stand out, and last but not least, how glow-in-the-dark sneakers can be awkward in a movie theater.
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smashingmagazine.com January 8, 2014
The Lean UX Manifesto: Principle-Driven Design

My colleague Ajay and I have been working at incorporating lean UX at the enterprise level for over two years. In studying it, I find that there’s a temptation to lay down rules, and if the rules aren’t followed… well, then, you can’t call it lean UX.
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theverge.com January 24, 2013
Redesigning Google: how Larry Page engineered a beautiful revolution

Something strange and remarkable started happening at Google immediately after Larry Page took full control as CEO in 2011: it started designing good-looking apps. Great design is not something anybody has traditionally expected from Google.
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designmodo.com March 9, 2017
How To Create a Web Design Style Guide

Creating websites is getting more and more complex and is usually not a one person job. It is important to ensure that design is consistent and optimized to meet business objectives and create enjoyable experiences for users.
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runemadsen.com February 16, 2017
On meta-design and algorithmic design systems

This post is about something I see as a continuing trend in the design world: the rise of the meta-designer and algorithmic design systems. Until recently, the term Graphic Designer was used to describe artists firmly rooted in the fine arts.
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lifehacker.com June 26, 2016
These Five Steps Outline the Basics of the Design Thought Process

Creative design is a complex process that can be applied from everything to making products to creating company logos. If you’re struggling with where to start, this graphic outlines the five basic steps.
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smashingmagazine.com March 7, 2011
Lean UX: Getting Out Of The Deliverables Business

User experience design for the Web (and its siblings, interaction design, UI design, et al) has traditionally been a deliverables-based practice.
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fastcodesign.com December 14, 2015
10 Key Design Trends For 2016 (And How To Make The Most Of Them)

Apps as we know them will disappear. Luxury will trickle down to the masses. VR will go mainstream. These are just a few of the major design and technology trends shaping the world in 2016.
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theverge.com July 24, 2012
Good design is invisible: an interview with iA's Oliver Reichenstein

Oliver Reichenstein is the founder and director of Information Architects, the Tokyo, Zurich, and Berlin-based design agency.
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uxpin.com February 1, 2017
Responsive vs. Adaptive Design: What’s the Best Choice for Designers?

Google has always recommended responsive web design (RWD), especially after rolling out a big update on the 4/21/15 which ranked mobile-friendly sites higher.
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medium.com December 16, 2015
The Best User Experience Design Links of 2015

2015 saw Apple’s design criticized, designing beyond the web & mobile screen, even more prototyping tools (including sneak peeks from Adobe), and it seemed everyone started UX podcasts.
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blog.invisionapp.com August 10, 2016
A comprehensive reading list for and by designers

We've recently updated this list to include even more of our favorite designers’ recommended books. Happy reading! Being big bibliophiles here at InVision, we asked some of our favorite designers to recommend the book that inspired them the most this past year.
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webdesignerdepot.com September 2, 2013
The ultimate guide to flat design

It is easy to say that 2013 has so far been the year of flat design. Even Apple, the driver of the skeuomorphic design trend for many years, is trying some level of flat design when it releases iOS 7 later this year.
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smashingmagazine.com April 10, 2015
Thinking Like An App Designer – Smashing Magazine

There’s more to designing mobile apps than meets the eye. The task requires a deep knowledge of devices, and it often means changing the way we think — even if that means leaving behind much of what we’ve learned from designing for the web.
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thenextweb.com May 18, 2017
How to design websites developers won’t hate

For the best visual precision, every Web design project eventually requires fully-composed mockups for each page and interface.
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matthewmooredesign.com January 23, 2013
Almost Flat Design – Matthew Moore Design

Flat design is both hot and controversial in world of user interface. Microsoft led the charge to introduce it to the masses and many others have followed suit: LayerVault, The Next Web, and more.
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jon.gold May 24, 2016
Taking The Robots To Design School, Part 1

About a year ago I started working on merging typographic design and artificial intelligence.
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designschool.canva.com January 20, 2016
The 9 Graphic Design Trends You Need to Be Aware of In 2016

More than the patterns that emerge from the Popular feeds on Dribbble and Behance, design trends can be a mysterious thing. They’re influenced by culture and media, past and present, technology, fashion, and other industries.
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designmodo.com February 8, 2016
Responsive Web Design: 50 Examples and Best Practices

Responsive web design term is related to the concept of developing a website design in a manner that helps the lay out to get changed according to the user’s computer screen resolution.
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uxbooth.com January 17, 2017
How to Design a Large Scale Responsive Site

Responsive design has evolved considerably since it was first defined by Ethan Marcotte in 2010. The discussion now isn’t whether you should develop a site that works across all devices, but instead, how you should go about it.
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smashingmagazine.com June 18, 2014
Faster UI Animations With Velocity.js – Smashing Magazine

From a motion design perspective, Facebook.com is phenomenally static. It’s purposefully dumbed down for the broadest levels of compatibility and user comfort. Facebook’s iOS apps, on the other hand, are fluid. They prioritize the design of motion; they feel like living, breathing apps.
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mokriya.quora.com
Designer Duds: Losing Our Seat at the Table

If design hadn’t triumphed by 2012, it had by 2013. Three years after launching the iPad, Apple was the world’s most valuable company, and even second-order pundits knew why: design.
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thenextweb.com March 10, 2017
7 habits of great Web designers

Design is all about pushing the boundaries of technology and creativity to better solve problems. At its core, design is about people. When we talk about people, we mean team members as well as users.
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graphicdesignjunction.com
50 Beautiful Mobile UI Design with Amazing User Experience

Please share and spread the love.
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firstround.com
An Inside Look at Facebook's Method for Hiring Designers

Julie Zhuo started working at Facebook almost eight years ago at age 22. At the time, she didn't know what she'd be working on, or where the company was going. But she liked its energy, the way everyone hacked forward, together.
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inc.com September 23, 2015
5 Steps to Designing a Billion-Dollar Company

This is a guest post by Applico director of operations Patrick Stewart. Follow Patrick on Twitter @palpatrick. Uber does not own or operate any of the cabs its riders use, but it has a valuation of more than $50B.
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fastcodesign.com November 17, 2011
8 Secrets To Creative Thinking (Hint: Steal From Others)

In the Fifties, I, together with just about every designer, was preoccupied with aesthetics and fashion. Design was the latest typeface in a modern layout looking like a Mondrian with lots of white space. That’s what I was taught in art school. I don’t remember when I changed.
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thenextweb.com March 10, 2017
The 5 Pillars of Interaction Design

Good interaction design is driven by a human connection. But what drives human connection and how does that translate into a computerized interface? The answers to these questions aren’t so black-and-white.
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uxdesign.cc July 24, 2016
What every young designer should know

If you are a product designer fresh out of college or the first hire to a company or even the only designer in your team, things can be hard at first. Design school did not teach you how to deal with working at a real life job.
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thenextweb.com May 18, 2017
The future of flat design

Despite its sudden popularity, flat design is not just some fly-by-night trend. It’s a substantial approach to Web design that’s rooted in practicality, and necessity. The balance between aesthetics and usability reflected in flat design 2.
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lukew.com April 27, 2015
Obvious Always Wins

It’s tempting to rely on menu controls in order to simplify mobile interface designs —especially on small screens. But hiding critical parts of an application behind these kinds of menus could negatively impact usage.
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paulstamatiou.com June 26, 2014
Provide meaning with motion

Last week I attended Google I/O for the first time and participated on a small panel about cross-platform design challenges. There was so much going on that it was a bit of sensory overload, much like walking down the Las Vegas strip for the first time.
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mashable.com May 16, 2013
30 Unconventional Business Cards

Yes, more traditional business practices are going digital these days. Though sometimes, a good ol' physical business card is just as effective for that networking event, trade fair or random grocery store encounter.
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taybenlor.com May 21, 2013
Starter's Guide to iOS Design

As someone who does work on both the development and design side of iOS apps I find that many designers struggle with the transition to UI work, or with the different processes involved in iPhone and iPad app design.
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