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Design Systems
Branding is a beast. If you’re not careful, brands can become unwieldy and disconnected over time. A good design system prevents that breakdown and helps anyone in the company effectively communicate the brand.
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Sprint
It seems silly. Solve big problems and test in just 5 days? Jake Knapp walks us through the practical ways of designing, building and testing in one short sprint.
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Tandem Divergent Iteration
There’s a better way to iterate your designs. Diverge in multiple directions, using a variety of approaches to gain a more broad understanding of the problem.
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Relaunch: Visual Improvements
This post continues my series on the 2016 relaunch of my site. One of the main goals during the relaunch of my site was to enhance the visual experience. I have seen a lot of amazing portfolio sites out there but I didn’t want to make the site heavy. The main goal of my site is to provide a place for my voice to be heard. I want it to be a place where I can learn to improve my communication and writing skills, share what I am leaning and encourage others to do great work.
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Rough Launch 2.0
In my last Rough Launch post, I announced the redesign and relaunch of my site. The funny thing is that sites are never done. Since that post, I have been working to redesign and re-engineer my site. Half-way through 2016, I relaunched my site very quietly. I was inspired by the conversation in this first post to just go for it. I was never thrilled with the design so I continually updated and redesigned until I felt excited about where it was going.
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Good Designer/Bad Designer
Inspired by the Good/Bad Project at Wildbit, I wanted to elaborate on the topic of design and write about a few aspects that can make a designer great or plunge them into failure.
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Responsive Design: Patterns & Principles
This excellent book focuses on common patterns and principles in the responsive design industry today. Ethan Marcotte puts together some practical case studies to help us get a better perspective for our designs.
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The Joys of DRY Everywhere
We’re all familiar with how we need to keep our code DRY, but did you know you can experience the joy of DRY in your design files too? Let’s dive in and take a look.
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