Creative Boom

JUNE 15, 2025

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Things are tough for many creatives right now. The creative industry is facing its most challenging period since the 2008 financial crisis. Lee-May Lim , a freelance book designer, describes experiencing "four straight months of nothing", the worst period in her eight-year freelance career.

Freelance

Tuts Plus

OCTOBER 15, 2019

This Roman inscription is often described as the original serif typeface, and its square, honest and imposing design has become the basis of almost every serif font since, including of course Trajan , a font based on the inscription designed by Carol Twombly for Adobe in 1989. . Melody Nieves. 20 Mar 2017. Jan Stverak.

Fonts

UX Collective

JUNE 5, 2022

How designers can capture the voices that represent non-human living beings. Yes, there are important movements like sustainable design, eco design and circular design. The Elements of User Experience: User-centered Design for the Web. Bristol: University of Bristol/AHRC Connected Communities Programme.

Industrial Design

UX Collective

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Why it is time to move beyond just designing for humans. Image by Ilias via Adobe Stock This article is based on a recently published academic paper with the title Non-Human Personas: Including Nature in the Participatory Design of Smart Cities , which appeared in the Journal of Interaction Design & Architecture(s).

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