At first glance, the current wave of UX designer layoffs seems counterintuitive. Across industries, organisations are downsizing UX roles while retaining graphic designers and UI designers with lesser UX skills. To those of us in the field, this shift can…
Every year Apple rolls out a new iPhone, and every year I squint at it like as if it was a spot-the-difference puzzle in the back of a newspaper. From a designer’s perspective, the changes are so subtle they could…
As I am rereading Factfulness by Hans Rosling, I can’t help but think how relevant this book is to us designers. If I were going to take a few key points away from this book, it would be the same…
A good hammer is valuable because it is useful, and not because it is well designed. Wait a minute. You might say, “Isn’t it useful because it was designed that way?” Yes, it was designed to be useful, but it’s…
If somebody came to you and claimed that their weight was a nice green colour, you would probably stop, double-check if you heard them correctly, and then wonder if that person was sane. What a piece of nonsense! Just because…
If you are like me, you must be familiar with that feeling of frustration when scrolling through the “infinite” list of your past conversations with ChatGPT, looking for the particular one you want to re-check again, just to realise that…
Have you ever wondered why some logomarks resonate with customers while others do not? We all know, that some logos are considered to be inspirational works of art while most of them are average at best. Recently, I wrote a…
Colour is one of the most underestimated yet critical areas of design, especially when designing with accessibility in mind. Most designers are familiar with the colour contrast of texts on the background. However, there is much more to colours in…
If I learned one absolute statement in the past 20+ years of practicing the craft of digital design is that anyone trying to make absolute statements about almost anything is doomed to be proven wrong at some point. Read more…
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