Its Nice That

MAY 19, 2025

Why is lethargy growing among designers? Creative director, designer and SEEK/FIND founder, Tabitha Swanson, discusses where our collective exhaustion to upskill and grow has come from.

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Its Nice That

JUNE 16, 2022

We speak to Hamish Steele about converting comics to animation, a Netflix production with a radical queer POV, and why comics aren’t “just a stepping stone for streaming”.

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Creative Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Set on a maternity ward where it’s swiftly revealed that Slowthai is actually the one with child, the video is shot in a POV style that makes it feel like a cross between an episode of Peep Show and Alan Brooking’s classic ad The Pregnant Man.

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Eye on Design

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Design POV confirmed that there are still significant wage gaps across gender, race, and ability in graphic design. “Knowing the actual salaries of my peers helped me hold out for the right job and pay I know I am worth,” Cotton said. Plus, seeing people actually make six figures is an inspiring goal for me to have.” .

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UX Collective

JUNE 14, 2021

A review of Melvin Kranzberg’s tech POV. By Niels Boey The UX Collective is an independent ad-free design publication that elevates unheard design voices, reaching over 428,700 designers every week. Curated by Fabricio Teixeira and Caio Braga. Editors’ picks The first law of technology ? By Chris R Becker How to survive design burnout ?

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Eye on Design

APRIL 28, 2021

With that, meet the Design Point of View (POV), AIGA’s reimagined research initiative that aims to uncover the complexity of what it means to be a designer in an ever-changing industry. The POV is meant to be an ongoing conversation about where the design industry is, and where it’s heading.

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Its Nice That

MARCH 20, 2024

In this week’s POV, design director Jakob Weinzettel traces the growing trend of “the human alphabet” and how this visual language speaks volumes about designers’ collective obsession with the human form.

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Abduzeedo

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Nothing Great is Made Alone’ is a POV on creativity and collaboration. Clearly the design community loved Figma, so we wanted an idea that kept them in love with it, while letting developers, writers, producers and managers know that Figma encourages them all to work together and make better work because they’re all together.

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Its Nice That

MAY 17, 2024

In this week’s POV, we look into these regulations and the evidence of subjectivity from the position of authority. Although we’re not even halfway through 2024, three prominent campaigns featuring women’s bodies and women’s issues have already been banned by advertising authorities.

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Creative Review

DECEMBER 14, 2021

“We opted to make a lot of the scenes in first person POV, so the camera moves around a lot,” Wang explains. The duo has already made inroads in this space, directing two episodes of Guide to Meditation – Headspace’s animated Netflix series – remotely during lockdown.

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Eye on Design

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

A company grows over time, adding or acquiring other lines of business, and eventually finds everyday business to be too complex, with conflicting POVs between divisions and senior staff. Brand architecture at large tends to be more social engineering than master planning.

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Sangfroid!

JANUARY 26, 2022

Principle #3: Have a point of view Perhaps the biggest takeaway for me from Play Bigger was the mandate to have a strong, clear and novel POV. This POV took hold on the market, so fervently that the idea that the best tools are browser or cloud based is utterly commonplace.

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Inkbot Design

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Unique POV? Influences – Visual inspirations? Personality – What's the band vibe? Backstory – How'd they start? Early career stories? Lyrics – Strong themes? Fans – Core audience/demographics? Regional ties?

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Its Nice That

AUGUST 19, 2024

Pivoting away from “algosorted” recommendations online, the Tiny Awards is the anti-Webbys, celebrating the internet’s independent creators.

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Its Nice That

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Frustrated by the impact of unpaid pitch requests, New York-based design agency Porto Rocha is inviting the creative industry to sign a public initiative against this imbalanced system.

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Its Nice That

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Record labels are increasingly opting for AI-generated visuals over collaborating with creatives – and it’s dividing opinion among artists and listeners.

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HONGKIAT

AUGUST 3, 2023

The post How to Ace Your Interviews (From the Interviewer’s POV) appeared first on Hongkiat. Take each interview seriously and we hope the tips in this post will help you leave a great impression on the interviewers, and more importantly, get you the job.

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Design Milk

AUGUST 9, 2021

POV Series Wall Candle Holder by MENU. Panton Tray Small by Georg Jensen. Designed by the legendary Verner Panton, this iconic decorative tray resembles a crumpled sheet of paper made from mirror-polished stainless steel.

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Its Nice That

MARCH 7, 2024

Habit-forming features on social media apps are sparking class-action lawsuits. But does moral responsibility lie with product designers?

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Vecteezy

AUGUST 30, 2023

In terms of shot types and framing, keep in mind that everything must carry the spirit of dynamism, minimalism, and simplicity, so we recommend opting for medium, wide, POV and full shots. Futurism also translates into curved and angular clean lines, distinct-shaped subjects and complementary colors.

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Design Beep

AUGUST 15, 2022

Inkscape offers 3D objects with support for the most common file formats including SVG, OBJ, STL and POV-Ray. . This software provides a quick mode for beginners who don’t have much time, as well as a smart preview option for experienced users.

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Its Nice That

JULY 31, 2024

We sit down with David Lee, the CCO of Squarespace, to hear how his team are learning and using AI tools in their work, and ask whether they might lead to “the next golden age for humanity”.

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Its Nice That

APRIL 4, 2024

Time tracking is the standard process in today’s creative industry, but many businesses implement such systems counterintuitively. If the data is inaccurate, and they elicit a groan from the creative teams instructed to use them, have we just over-designed the process of design?

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Its Nice That

MAY 30, 2024

A recent report by the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre’s reveals alarming disparities in class representation across the UK’s cultural sector. In hope of change, we speak to resource sharing network Common People on how class representation is more than just a moral issue.

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Interaction Design Foundation

AUGUST 19, 2020

In the Define mode, you should end up creating an actionable problem statement which is commonly known as the Point of View (POV) in Design Thinking. Your POV should never contain any specific solution, nor should it contain any indication as to how to fulfill.

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UX Collective

JUNE 8, 2021

A review of Melvin Kranzberg’s tech POV. Continue reading on UX Collective ».

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Its Nice That

JUNE 13, 2024

Malcontent has been growing on Instagram for aeons, but the alternatives come with their own problems. We talk to creatives to understand the conundrum behind apps like Cara.

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Inkbot Design

JANUARY 24, 2024

Top 10 Mood Board Mistakes That Muddle Brand Identities Many brands undermine their messaging by making these frequent mood board flubs: Too Broad – Lacking specificity on feelings Overcomplicated – Trying to do too much; lack of focus Into the Weeds – Details instead of big picture emotion Warped POV – Not aligning with target (..)

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Inkbot Design

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Voice searches are quick and efficient from the consumer's POV. Artificial Intelligence and machine learning have enabled significant advancements in speech analysis and contextual reasoning, creating a more precise and accurate voice recognition system. How people “search” has been completely altered forever. Time-efficiency.

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Its Nice That

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Colour palettes have become a content commodity of sorts – shared widely on X, with some platforms entirely dedicated to accidental combinations. Where has this hex code fascination come from? And what does it say about our impulse to catalogue?

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Its Nice That

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

As more brands turn to the printed page for cultural cache, Polyester’s founding editor-in-chief, Ione Gamble, sees her publishing peers squeezed from the market.

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Its Nice That

APRIL 18, 2024

We speak to an established designer hoping to kickstart a new movement inviting more openness, transparency and vulnerability from his peers. Can it succeed?

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Its Nice That

MARCH 26, 2025

From this angle, the furry competitors in the worlds largest dog show appear all the more adorable and comical.

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Its Nice That

MARCH 19, 2025

Just recently, the major independent design studio Two Times Elliott closed the doors of its permanent studio space. Founder James Horwitz reflects on whats been lost but, more importantly, what could be gained from a more fluid working model.

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UX Collective

JUNE 19, 2022

Combining the two POVs allows for a start that sets up a solid footing. > The same applies to UX, where understanding the needs and motivations of all parties involved requires research in the form of the usual culprits?—?interviews, interviews, focus groups, and so on; you know the drill.

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Its Nice That

OCTOBER 21, 2024

2025 will mark five whole years since the pandemic saw us adapt to hybrid working, but there’s one aspect of WFH life many are yet to learn: manners.

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MARCH 26, 2021

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