Design

Designing the Whole

When you first launch a product, pretty much every feature you add is (or at least should be) key to…

10 years ago

Understanding typographic hierarchy

One of the most important techniques for effectively communicating (or “honoring”) content is the use of typographic hierarchy. Typographic hierarchy…

10 years ago

Functional beauty and user experience

Beauty is one of the oldest and most powerful concepts in human history—inspiring artists and lighting up cultural movements, philosophical…

10 years ago

Great products focus on a motif

What does it take to craft a great product? For those of us who design and build apps, websites and…

10 years ago

What does it mean to be simple?

All designers say simplicity is important, but what does it really mean to make something simple? Most of the time…

10 years ago

Solutions are easy if you know the problem

“Good design is problem solving.” – Jeffrey Veen You could say that actually solving the problem is good design in…

10 years ago

Hidden champions of product design

Products are people too. Products influence people through emotions. We as designers define the experiential, social and other qualities of…

10 years ago

3 mistakes web designers make

I was reviewing an online shoe store the other day. The landing page had this beautiful graphic of all these…

10 years ago

Why “simple” is scientifically better

In a study by Google in August of 2012, researchers found that not only will users judge websites as beautiful…

10 years ago