Designing Mobile Websites for Voice Search
In January 2018 alone, consumers conducted over 1 billion voice searches. By 2020, it’s estimated that 30% of all online…
Unofficial Pantone Color for 2020 Revealed
2019’s official color is named Living Coral, and it’s a nice idealized shade of red coral under blue water. The…
Slack Adopts Generic New Identity
So it’s entirely understandable that when Slack revealed its new logo this week, there was a knee-jerk reaction from the…
The Right & Wrong Way to Use Templates
I’m a big fan of templates. They’re an essential part of any productive designer’s workflow and they can also be…
5 Ways to Design for Large Viewports
Web designers have typically always been big-picture people, in that they like having really big screens in front of them….
Designing the Emotional Interfaces of the Future
“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made…
Content Management is Design
Content management is design. I usually try to start an article with some sort of joke or metaphor for flavor,…
How to Add Innovation to UI Design Patterns
Researchers have known for some time that human behavior happens in patterns. Rather than seek out new ways to interact…
5 Trends of Voice UI Design
At its core, the concept of interaction was always about communication. Human-Computer Interaction has never been about graphical user interfaces,…
5 Principles of Cuteness in Web Design
Okay, how in the heck do you make something “cute”? Now maybe you’ve grown up in an environment where getting…
10 Tips for Building a Visual Language
A visual language is just like any other form of communication. Where “language” refers to spoken or written communication, visual…
9 Fictional Websites Reviewed
There’s a moment that every tech nerd in every corner of the tech industry knows all too well. It’s that…