The Hidden Costs of Minimalism in Design
It offered a simpler and cleaner design direction for websites and interfaces. Web and app designs became less complex in…
From Fireworks to Framer: Is Software Choice Good For Design?
It wasn’t all that long ago that web and product designers were presented with a choice: Fireworks, Illustrator, or Photoshop….
Should You Follow Design Trends?
Across all disciplines of design, from fashion to architecture, trends largely define the styles and directions of an industry at…
Achieving Simplicity Beyond Complexity in Design
Simplicity Beyond Complexity is essentially the point at which the complications of a product, and its code, become obscured to…
Why The Hamburger Menu Should Disappear For Good
The hamburger menu was initially introduced as a means to obscure secondary navigation items in an effort to maintain a…
How Dark UX Patterns Target The Most Vulnerable
A dark user experience pattern is loosely defined as a way to trick users into performing certain actions. These actions…
Should the Web Have a Universal Design System?
Unlike mobile applications, the web has no set design guidelines to which a designer can refer. Instead, each web project…
How to Move Your Design Workflow to the Cloud
In an era where using the cloud has become something of the norm, it’s worthwhile to look at how this…
3 Months with Figma: Why it Changes Design Forever
Like most designers, I started with Photoshop, using it for over half a decade. From there, Sketch burst onto the…
Why evolution is better than revolution in product design
Digital products will always need to be redesigned. Styles progress, hardware technologies advance, and development possibilities are ever-increasing. Just in…
Is mobile app UI design a complete waste of time and money?
More and more companies are constantly chopping and changing their design direction and user interface in a battle to stand…