Design Systems – InVision blog by Brad Frost

Design Systems provide a mental model to help us think about user interfaces in a more systematic, hierarchical way so we can create thoughtful UIs and their underlying components at the same time. If you want to know all there is to know about design systems, there’s no better person to talk to than Brad Frost—he wrote [...]

By |November 21st, 2017|Design, UI, UX|Comments Off on Design Systems – InVision blog by Brad Frost

Brutalism: A New Trend in Web Design

Brutalism: A New Trend in Web Design Some designs aren’t polished and clean. They are rough, jarring and ragged. Yet they still work and communicate effectively. This class of websites makes up the raw trend called brutalism. While it is somewhat new to web concepts, it’s been around for decades as a popular technique for posters [...]

By |October 23rd, 2017|Design, Digital Art, UI|Comments Off on Brutalism: A New Trend in Web Design

Spotify engineering culture – Tribes

Here’s part 1 of short animated video describing Spotify's engineering culture (here’s part 2).   This is a journey in progress, not a journey completed, and there’s a lot of variation from squad to squad. So the stuff in the video isn’t all true for all squads all the time, but it appears to be mostly true [...]

By |July 14th, 2017|Agile Methodology, Design, Scrum, UI, UX|Comments Off on Spotify engineering culture – Tribes

Design Disruptors: A Documentary by Invision

On Thursday night I was lucky enough to be invited to the European Premier of Design Disruptors. Held at the London Palladium to a packed crowd of enthusiastic Product Designers, UX and UI Designers, Artists, Developers and a host of London’s finest tech heads. Design Disruptors is a brand new feature length documentary by the [...]

By |July 9th, 2016|Design, Digital Art, Start Ups, Technology, UI, UX|Comments Off on Design Disruptors: A Documentary by Invision

Adobe launches Experience Design CC, a new tool for UX designers

Post by Frederic Lardinois (@fredericl) of Techcrunch.   Adobe today launched the first public preview of its new Experience Design CC tool, which was previously known as Project Comet. Experience Design CC is the company’s first tool that is purpose-built for user experience (UX) designers. It takes what Adobe has learned from working with UX designers [...]

By |March 15th, 2016|Design, UI, UX|Comments Off on Adobe launches Experience Design CC, a new tool for UX designers

2016: 10 Logo Design Trends

Are you the curious kind who is always in a lookout for latest logo design trends? Wish to know what trends will become the talk of the town and which ones will die a fast death in the year ahead? If you’re nodding your head in a yes, then brace yourself: we’re going to reveal [...]

By |February 13th, 2016|Design, Logos|Comments Off on 2016: 10 Logo Design Trends

Is it all about Agile? A designers view on Waterfall vs Agile methodologies

During my 15 years working in the design industry a lot has changed. Styles, tools, trends, CMYK to RGB. Millimetres to pixels, CRT to LED, clicking to swiping, WAP to APP. I’ve worked within the newsroom of the most circulated English language newspaper in the world, which, at it’s peak had a circulation of around [...]

By |January 24th, 2016|Agile Methodology, Design, Scrum, UI, UX, Waterfall Methodology|Comments Off on Is it all about Agile? A designers view on Waterfall vs Agile methodologies

Brand Typography: 50 Unique Fonts That Are Perfect for Logo Design

A really nice piece by Creative Market on great fonts for logo design. It's always a pain looking for unique fonts so this might give you a few ideas. There's loads of similar articles about with links to free fonts for both personal and commercial use. I'll try to put up a few posts later on [...]

By |January 24th, 2016|Design, Fonts, Logos|Comments Off on Brand Typography: 50 Unique Fonts That Are Perfect for Logo Design

Google Material Design – Behind the Scenes

Google challenged themselves to create a visual language for their users that synthesizes the classic principles of good design with the innovation and possibility of technology and science. This is material design. This spec is a living document that will be updated as we continue to develop the tenets and specifics of material design.   https://design.google.com/videos/making-material-design/

By |January 24th, 2016|Agile Methodology, Design, Material Design, Technology, UI|Comments Off on Google Material Design – Behind the Scenes
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