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25/01/2018

What do you think about an open source design system for the entire web?

Unlike mobile applications, the web has no set design guidelines to which a designer can refer. Instead, each web project tends to be a blank canvas. There are frameworks like Material, Bootstrap, and others which provide a base, but no set guidelines which span the web as a whole. The result is a w...

23/01/2018

Make sure heading out on your own is a happy, and profitable move!

20/01/2018

A modern font for stone-age thinking.

19/01/2018

It's one of the worst parts about being a designer: Being forced to create work you feel is subpar. Work that's absolutely doomed to fail. Designers go through this every day. This isn't exclusive to designers, but it's especially destructive because our work is often devalued by the rest of the tea...

18/01/2018

If you are bored with everything you've been toying with in design projects, the start of a new year is a great time to try something new. While the end of the year, can be a slow season when it comes to web design projects, the start of the year is often when new work and concepts come to life. It�...

17/01/2018

Gamification as a concept has been around just long enough for a number of experts to come out of nowhere. There was a brief moment where everybody wrote an article or five about it, and then it more or less became the preserve of "gamification experts" and business blogs. The thing is, we should st...

16/01/2018

Designers forecast the biggest graphic design trends of 2018.

15/01/2018

From custom type to colour fonts, leading designers forecast the biggest type trends of 2018.

11/01/2018

As more number of sites, apps and other platforms go conversational, it becomes mandatory for web designers to know how to make the most of it.

UX Design is almost synonymous with conversational interfaces, which are used left, right, and center from natural language messaging to voice-based action. Biggies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon are neck-and-neck when it comes to taking conversation as a platform to the next level with...

10/01/2018

Don't forget to vote!

Happy New Year! At this time every January we try to predict what's going to happen in our industry over the next 12 months. I hope that 2018 will be a great year for inclusive design, for standards-compliance, for ethical practices. I hope for those things every year, and annually it does feel like...

08/01/2018

Six design guide elements that need to be in your documentation!

A design guide is more than just a document that comes with a new website or brand identity. A good design guide is a work of art in itself and has practical application in everyday design work. It showcases what your project is and aspires to be. It should bring elements of design, voice and even c...