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Wordle is a masterclass in product design simplicity

UX Collective

But I’m a product designer and a programmer, so as I played, I couldn’t help but notice some strange things about how it was constructed. I was right in the middle of making my own product School Morning Routine , so I was very interested to see what I could learn from Wordle. Product development isn’t a straight line.

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Finding work: Lessons from the 2008 financial crash

Design Week

Back in 2008 MySpace was on the way out, Facebook was on the way in, the world had just discovered the iPhone and Obama was giving Americans hope. The post Finding work: Lessons from the 2008 financial crash appeared first on Design Week. It was a time of great flux but set against a backdrop of crippling global recession.

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Amy Pastre and Courtney Rowson on 13 years of running a studio and where they believe design is heading next

Creative Boom

Courtney: We started the business for reasons unrelated to the 2008 downturn. We were also fortunate to have built a diverse range of clients over the years, so while clients in some industries had to pause, others accelerated because of the high demand for their products or services. It's been 13 years since you launched SDCO.

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5 pieces of good news for freelance designers in 2022

Creative Boom

Since 2008, it's brought more than one million creative projects to life across the world and designers in its community have earned more than $400m USD on the platform to date. On the other, there are those gung-ho freelancers who launch their own products, side projects and startups with gusto.

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Candy-coloured photographs of the famous Lifeguard Towers of Miami Beach

Creative Boom

The last five are currently in production, adding to the existing lineup that has become iconic and is frequently documented by Instagrammers worldwide. In 2008, when he visited Iceland – the first of 12 trips there – he shifted focus to landscape and nature photography.

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Founders, Freelancers & Rebels: new book dispels the fear of going solo

Creative Boom

Layla Robinson by Billie Charity "When I worked in PR – which I did for 20 years – I'd be out on boats, inside factories, tasting products at fayres or learning a new skill, from finance to kung fu. I used to work in financial PR as an account director, and the 2008 financial crisis meant I was made redundant," she recalls.

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Spoon Graphics Turns 15 Years Old — The End is Nigh! (or is it?)

Spoon Graphics

We’re now back to 2008 levels, when Spoon Graphics was in its infancy. Well, just as I thought traffic was levelling off again after the -23% drop between 2019-2020, this past 12 months has seen the largest decline of all time, down another -31% on last year. I’m now seeing fewer daily visitors numbers than on Christmas Day of years gone by.

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