Creative Boom

MARCH 28, 2024

Enter a new platform designed to simplify an artist's business operations into one powerful tool. To bring their vision to life, Temple partnered with brand and digital design studio Output. Design language Building out from the brand concept, Output defined a digital design language for the marketing website.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Author Harriet Kelsall, an award-winning jewellery designer, shares practical steps to help you balance your creativity with entrepreneurship. The authors, known for their work on design sprints at Google Ventures, argue that the key isn't working harder but working smarter.

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Just Creative

MAY 13, 2020

People often think that user experience (UX) website design is optional, when actually it is a must-have for companies that want to thrive. Generally, the biggest challenges that UX designers face are imposed by company culture, organization, workflow or methodology. UX designers shouldn’t view themselves as separate entities.

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Creative Boom

JULY 16, 2024

Creativity and design go way beyond making something beautiful; problem-solving is ingrained in the nature of designers, who have a huge part to play in driving the world towards a greener, more socially balanced future. There was an ambient difficulty when it came to designing a platform that encourages benevolent actions.

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UX Collective

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

How generative AI tools are bringing creativity, speed, and efficiency to design validation Credit: Blush Illustrations Is anyone else feeling the same way as I do? We’re truly at a point where AI is turning our design dreams into a reality. When I first discovered Claude Artifacts a couple of months ago, it felt like magic.

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Graphic Design Junction

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Learning graphic design is more accessible than people might think. Leaning towards arts makes it easier, but you don’t need to be Pablo Picasso to be a professional graphics designer. Nowadays, it’s just as much about mastering graphic design software as anything else. Maybe you want to design a website?

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Creative Boom

JUNE 10, 2022

James Hurst, Head of Brand Design at Google. British designer James Hurst is living proof. After 17 years in the profession, he landed the role of Google's head of brand design this April, and so far, it's been everything he ever wished for. That's when I started to notice design. I asked my mum what was going on.

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UX Collective

JUNE 13, 2022

For their part, UX staff on Odd Couple teams engage in practices such as: working part time on multiple projects, rather than being dedicated to a single project, taking a long time to produce elaborate design artifacts to hand-off to developers, and treating developers as “them” and not taking an interest in their work beyond UX.

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Creative Boom

JULY 26, 2023

But what happens when a respected design studio lets loose and says no idea is too ridiculous? We decided to go ahead with a backpack designed to hold the wearer's favourite houseplant, although the idea of designing a theme park for stoners also generated much interest." We all know the benefit of side projects.

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UX Collective

JULY 20, 2021

Why is the design industry so misunderstood? I recently came across an article titled The fetishisation of UX design , authored by Amy Rogers , on my feed. Being an experience designer myself, the headline caught my attention and I immediately clicked on it. Is poor design education the cause of fetishisation?

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UX Collective

JANUARY 21, 2022

Designer’s four roles in agile development Design has four distinctive roles in agile software development. If you are a business owner, a design manager, or an individual designer, you must understand these roles and ensure that you have proper resources for each of them.

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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 ? We've meticulously curated a list of the five best UX books guaranteed to propel your design skills to new dimensions.

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UX Collective

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Source: Adapted from “Understanding Design Thinking, Lean and Agile”?—?Schneider A study by McKinsey shows that, for large corporations, there is a direct correlation between business performance and the use of design mindset, as a result, products and services offered tend to be better. Design Sprint at Embraer?—?(Personal

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Inkbot Design

JULY 15, 2023

Cagan emphasises the significance of fostering strong relationships between product managers, designers, engineers, and other stakeholders to facilitate the creation of exceptional products. Nurturing a culture of innovation within your organisation and leveraging design thinking to create exceptional user experiences.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 28, 2025

But if you've spent more than five minutes in a meeting or scrolling through design briefs, you'll know there's a whole lexicon of tired, overused buzzwords that have lost all meaning. Premium If you've ever worked on a design brief for a tech company, you'll know that "premium" is a go-to descriptor.

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Telepathy

MAY 17, 2017

A Sprint Story Chapter Four: Design, Divide, Conquer, F#% It Up and Fix It. The typical breakdown of a Design Sprint prototyping team is recommended as: Maker (Designer). We found it smoother to work in teams of two, so our breakdown was: Designers. The tools of choice: Sketch (our daily design tool).

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UX Collective

JUNE 20, 2022

Design thinking workshop?—?step step by step guide Learn how to plan and run a successful design thinking workshop. Design thinking workshop is a time saver A design thinking workshop is a great way to define and solve problems fast. It’s an interactive session that is based on design thinking methodology.

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Just Creative

AUGUST 12, 2020

17 Essential Tools for Designers. Best chromebooks for designers. Best computers for designers. Best Macbooks for designers. Best laptops for designers. Best budget laptops for designers. More Top Gear for Designers. Best printers for designers. Best monitors for designers.

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UX Collective

JANUARY 2, 2022

This ‘lots of motion and not a lot of output’ approach reminds me of my experience of leading a design team for the first time at Percolate. but my catch-all ‘Our design process needs to adapt to new technologies’ bet reveals I was missing a handle on the most important piece of the pie. Design sprints. Icon design.

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UX Collective

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Like the product was designed specifically for you, anticipating your every need. Thats the power of experience-driven design, and it hinges on a simple but profoundconcept: Features shouldnt feel like features. Youre creating a product that feels like it was assembled from a box of random parts rather than designed as a cohesivewhole.

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UX Collective

MAY 10, 2022

The product design playbook I use to break down and execute on design projects. I was tasked to lead design for a project that would double the size of the product. cracks knuckles) Alright, I’m an experienced designer. Product designers have never had so many tools and techniques at our disposal to help us do our job.

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UX Collective

APRIL 25, 2022

I like to organize projects into design sprints, phases or code names for products. Auto-layout Auto-layout gives you access to design responsive layouts without actually designing them. Auto-layout Auto-layout gives you access to design responsive layouts without actually designing them. Final Designs ??

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UX Collective

JANUARY 22, 2022

Bland author Testing Business Ideas Setting the Stage Organizations come in all different shapes and sizes; finding the right one for you as a designer (UX and product design) to thrive in is super important; it can make or break your success. Organizations have unique ways of working, and some are more UX/design-friendly than others.

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UX Collective

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In this article, I’m sharing some interesting insights on how you can create a sustainable and cohesive design team through the simple principle of trial & error. This is because in many companies UX design is still an ambiguous field, with multiple expectations and definitions from stakeholders.

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Noupe

JANUARY 3, 2024

Scrum This framework encourages you to break big projects into sprints lasting 1 to 4 weeks to maximize your marketing agility. With a clear vision, you can set clear objectives for your team like: Design an interactive website feature, like a chatbot. Sprint Planning This is where the magic begins for your marketing projects in Scrum.

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Smashing Magazine Graphics

AUGUST 15, 2021

Perhaps it’s because we so often use the word “sprint” in conversation. In an Agile approach, a technology roadmap feeds the sprint and grooming processes, providing insight into how the product will travel from start to finish. How A Technology Roadmap Feeds The Agile Sprint And Grooming Processes.

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UX Collective

JUNE 23, 2023

As a designer, a total redesign with a news-worthy release date feels much sexier than small, incremental, possibly unnoticed change over time. That’s why we’re spending many sprints researching, executing and delivering it up to the user. We did design thinking sprints and studied the industry in detail.

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UX Collective

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. Designers contribute to this system by tacitly encouraging people to accept the wholesale convenience of connectivity through deceptive intentions. Editor picks Design in the era of conspiratorial mirror worlds → The way we design in a divisive society.

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UX Collective

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Illustration by Jack Bedford Ten years ago there were a lot of articles about why design should get a ‘seat at the table’. Us designers have always felt like design is a serious endeavour and we wanted others to feel the same. CDOs and design-minded CPOs are now commonplace in many startups and tech companies.

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UX Collective

OCTOBER 5, 2021

That’s why I’m a firm believer in a user-centric way of designing and delivering products, it’s all about them and how they can easily interact with and use our product to form part of their lives. The aim is to increase flow and increase the amount of working functionality that can be reviewed at the end of every sprint.

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Abduzeedo

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Branding and Visual Identity: Unveiling Utila's Secure Design by Under Studio abduzeedo 1011—23 Explore the intricate design process behind Utila's branding and visual identity. Prioritizing security, simplicity, and flexibility, the design reflects unparalleled asset protection. The design is neither loud nor muted.

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UX Collective

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

During my time on the product design team at Mailchimp in 2018, one of my most memorable conversations was with CEO & Co-founder Ben Chestnut. In the early days of starting Mailchimp, Ben spent most of his time on design and brand. Ben comes from a design background having studied industrial design.

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UX Collective

JUNE 27, 2023

Chaos might look like becoming a first-time parent, switching from a designer role to managing, or traveling outside the country for the first time. It’s the same reason designers create grayscale designs for early stage feedback. Deep engagement in work and life exists in the space between chaos and order.

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Abduzeedo

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

A new visual system was designed to convey each of the 16 principles of the Earth Charter in graphic form. All work was made during a 5-day creative sprint organized by The Sexy Beast with the following team: Creative Directors: Andre Matarazzo & Jussi Solja. Senior Brand Designer: Genis Carreras.

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UX Collective

MARCH 5, 2023

What happens when a designer suggests three changes? What happens when a designer extends the metaphor? The stubborn designer in me, however, feels that there can be greater advancement. Designers d̶e̶v̶e̶l̶o̶p̶e̶r̶s̶ all around Yes, product development is a heavyweight job, and having a strong technical team is an asset.

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Mindsparkle Mag

MAY 31, 2021

The founding principles of Truewerk are all about providing trade workers with modern, technical workwear designed specifically for their daily needs on the job site. In order to make sure that the eCommerce site served as the key expression of the brand, Pattern began core UX design sprints while simultaneously working on the brand identity.

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UX Collective

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

and ones I would often get from product designers who would confess to me they had never created a vision before and were unsure how to do it. Vision crafting isn’t usually taught in UX boot camps or design schools. like, three designers supporting a whole product and sprinting against a tidal wave of projects?

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