Envato Tuts+

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Saturation refers to the purity of a color. In design, there are two color systems, RGB and CMYK. RGB is a system dedicated to digital design. Elements of Design: Value. Value refers to the degree of lightness and darkness of a specific hue. Texture adds a tactile appearance to a design layout.

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Inkbot Design

JULY 24, 2023

5 Best UX Books to Elevate Your Design Skills Hey there, fellow UX enthusiasts and aspiring design wizards! Are you ready to level up your user experience game and advance your design skills ? In the following pages, we'll unveil the hidden gems that can shape you into the UX designer everyone admires.

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UX Collective

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Photo by mentatdgt from Pexels The practice of design has been around since 2.5 The central message of the book Design, When Everybody Designs by Ezio Manzini is that nowadays, everyone designs, actively playing a role in devising strategies to make their lives, companies, societies better. Refer to figure 2.

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Tuts Plus

JULY 23, 2020

To recreate the fairy-tale book design pictured, you’ll also need to download the following images, brushes, and fonts: Adorabelle Script. How Should I Plan My Cover Design? Illustrative cover designs require a bit of forward thinking—the fairy-tale book design will look more seamless and beautiful if we map out the cover first.

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UX Collective

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

This article makes a case for adding non-human personas to the repertoire of personas considered in design projects. Without knowing you have likely already been designing for a non-human stakeholder. Daktronics are a manufacturer of digital billboards based in South Dakota in the US. But more about that later.

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Abduzeedo

MARCH 26, 2021

What you end up seeing in this soft-bound book you only see the punctuation marks, words, sentences and paragraphs that have been lost or edited over the last 162 years. However, with this version, in a printed book format is a first. The idea started as a graduation project for my typography / graphic design degree in London.

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UX Collective

MARCH 17, 2023

Design patterns provide several benefits to user interface design and digital product teams, this includes: Reusable solutions Design patterns provide pre-tested, proven solutions to common design problems, allowing designers to save time and effort by reusing existing solutions rather than starting from scratch.

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Shillington

MAY 6, 2020

The Indigo Design Awards started with the goal of promoting creativity and discovering projects from around the world that are unique and inspired in graphic design, digital, mobile and game design. “The design of the book was informed by two key ideas within autism research; camouflage and detail-oriented focus.

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Inkbot Design

DECEMBER 21, 2022

It's a great introduction to the design world and a valuable resource for those interested in learning more about it. Some design terms can be tricky to define, and I found myself referring to this book to help me get my head around them. 2 – The Non-Designer's Design Book.

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UX Collective

JUNE 5, 2022

Yes, there are important movements like sustainable design, eco design and circular design. Design For The Real World by Victor Papanek / Photo via Twitter We can replace “industrial design” with “interaction design”, “UX design” or “service design” and the quote is still accurate.

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Design Week

APRIL 8, 2021

The first book shows a circle – drawn, obviously, with a single line; the second features a plus sign or cross drawn with two lines, and so on. this is one of a “dizzying array” of special features in the design of the collection, according to the publishers. “For the book design, we felt Philip K.

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UX Collective

MARCH 23, 2023

.” — Steve Krug “Don’t Make Me Think” by Steve Krug was one of the first reading materials recommended to me when I started as a Product Designer. Digital products should be accessible to all and it is best practise to design with accessibility in mind right from conception, not as a legal tickbox but because it is the right thing to do.

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UX Collective

AUGUST 21, 2021

Handle complexities When I started my UX career 3 & a half years back, I had always wanted to work on consumer UX extensively, because of the immediate references that we had around us in our day-to-day ecosystem. The current aspiration trend is also showing more UX designers wanting to work for consumer UX, compared to Enterprise UX.

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Inkbot Design

MARCH 9, 2023

1 – The Design Thinking Playbook Sale Bestseller No. Buy on Amazon First off, let's talk about what design thinking is all about. Whether looking to (re-)design products, services, processes, business models, or ecosystems, design thinking is an incredibly powerful tool for driving innovation and solving wicked problems.

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UX Collective

AUGUST 21, 2021

Enterprise UX insights that no one talks about Handle complexities When I started my UX career 3 & a half years back, I had always wanted to work on consumer UX extensively, because of the immediate references that we had around us in our day-to-day ecosystem. Sometimes there might not be a need for a digital solution or integration.

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Thinking Design

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The title refers to the Trevi Fountain legend: toss a coin, and youll return to the Eternal City. If you ever need any help with book development, digital communications, or ideation, please contact us wed love to help! Secondaris 1952 novel Coins in the Fountain. Get in touch!

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UX Collective

JANUARY 25, 2022

Graphic designers create books and other graphic media, game designers create games, architects work on buildings. What does a designer do in the context of urban technology? The picture Roomba makes of your house may not look familiar to you but, sure enough, Roomba is peeping your human domain with its digital eye.

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UX Collective

JULY 1, 2023

What really matters In their research on digital wellbeing, the BBC highlights that articulating our needs can be difficult without a certain level of self-awareness. References Exhausted workers, polluting journeys: how unethical is next-day delivery? BBC Research and Development — Digital Wellbeing : BBC Research and Development.

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Inkbot Design

JANUARY 9, 2024

Topics span: Creative concepts and themes Style guide creation Branding and identity design Publication and editorial design Packaging designs Unconventional formats and finishes Complete with hundreds of colour images; this book provides endless inspiration through proven ideas ready for new interpretations.

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Inkbot Design

MARCH 2, 2023

Font decision refers to choosing a specific typeface for a design or communication project. It can include selecting a font for a website, a logo, a book, or any other medium that uses text. It impacts user experience and overall design aesthetic. Fonts are essential in book designs for the same reason as with websites.

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Tuts Plus

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Although the metal-cast concept of a font was very different from the digital format we use today, the fact that the type could be reproduced quickly and identically makes Textura not so radically different from the OpenType and TrueType fonts used on computers now. . Didot: The Typeface of Aspiration.

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Fonts in Use

MARCH 16, 2019

Today it’s recognized as the first modern-day artist’s book. Designers & Books , in collaboration with the Center for Italian Modern Art and Mart , is currently running a crowdfunding campaign to print a facsimile edition. Source: [link] © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE Rome.

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Fonts by Hoefler&Co.

JULY 11, 2017

I often use printed maps as an example of how sophisticated typography can educate users about how something works, without the need to refer people elsewhere for instructions. In addition to wanting the design to feel personal — authorial — I wanted the design to have the versatility of a hard-working type family.

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 18, 2025

Every issue is packed with art and design inspiration Delivered to your IOS or Android device Never miss an issue From £9.99 1 selling digital art magazine for fantasy and sci-fi enthusiasts! Whether its learning from comic arts Adam Hughes, fantasy arts John Howe, or digital paintings Loish, ImagineFX has you covered.

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Inkbot Design

AUGUST 8, 2023

With the rise of the digital age, a logo must remain impactful and recognisable across various mediums and contexts. The increasing necessity for flexible, scalable branding has made logo design complex. These contemporary designs demonstrate how logo creators push boundaries and explore new visual languages to capture the zeitgeist.

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UX Collective

MARCH 20, 2023

The answer lies in emotional design. Emotional design refers to the way in which design elements evoke emotions in the user, making the experience of using a product more memorable and enjoyable. They talk about “pain points” but fail to appreciate how painful these digital tools can be for users.

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Azure Magazine

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Kathryn Anthony, a professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, was among the first to challenge what she refers to as the “sacred cow of architecture education.” Anthony herself had success using digital tools for reviews during the pandemic. Today, we are finally beginning to see the fruits of her labour.

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Inkbot Design

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

We interviewed leading designers to find out what's working and not working for them now. We also added new chapters on professional skills, the creative process, and the rise of digital culture. Thinking with Type, 2nd revised and expanded edition: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students. $26.95.

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Eye on Design

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

New wave melded its influences into more than a sum of its parts, transforming niche visual reference points and repurposing them in a way that still feels decidedly “cult,” yet with one eye firmly on the realm of pop culture. “

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UX Collective

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Quick Background… In my twenty-year role as a graphic designer, I’ve designed books, album covers, magazines, logos, websites, and built digital tools. Regardless of the final forms, if its client-based or self-initiated, I treat all my designs as opportunities for intellectual inquiry and self-expression.

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Shillington

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Across two volumes and 960 pages, Jens Muller’s History of Graphic Design covers graphic design from 1890 to today. That’s 131 years of the finest that graphic design has and has had to offer. But this lovingly conceived reference is organised and laid out in a way that’s easy to digest. Buy the book.

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Shillington

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

This first volume of Jens Müller’s comprehensive and enlightening 2017 book traces 70 years of graphic design, designers, and developments from the late 19th century through the economic boom after the Second World War. But this lovingly conceived reference is organised and laid out in a way that’s easy to digest.

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Spine Magazine

MAY 5, 2020

This particular design competition is near and dear to my heart, not only because of my affinity for and connection to the University Press community but also because of its influence on my own work. I have every single AUP catalog since my book design career began almost 10 years ago at Columbia University Press. View fullsize.

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Azure Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

When she visited Google headquarters in 2019, she learned why: Not enough online sources refer to women or BIPOC designers as great. Its not that those designers dont exist or that they arent considered great, its that the SEO algorithm was stacked against them. The results overwhelmingly favoured white men.

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UX Collective

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In a predictive digital world, we play a crucial role in ensuring that AI solutions are ethical, transparent, and aligned with human values. The book explores these issues in depth, featuring contributions from various designers, educators, and researchers who work at the intersection of artificial intelligence and design.

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Creative Review

JUNE 3, 2021

And of course he incorporated a lot of photography references in his work that I wasn’t aware of at the time,” Shaw explains. “We were learning about layout composition and it struck me that composition could be applied to the crappy digital snapshots I had been taking for fun,” he remembers.

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