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Leveraging neurodivergent traits for design strategy

UX Collective

With the added ownership, your strength will come from the ability to tie business outcomes and impact back to design outcomes and contributions. Step 3: Leverage and Refine Your Superpowers The power of “race car” thinking As designers, we have the power to see things visually. The journey to my diagnosis was extremely difficult.

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Design to win: How I use the power of comparison to unlock better design

UX Collective

The power of competition Interestingly, the most reliable and approachable tool I’ve found is providing clear and consistent “competitive” design resources. While I may never achieve my quest of teaching every coworker to critique designs like Dieter Rams , people are instinctively great at comparing things when they are put side-by-side.

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Ethical alternatives to revenue-generating deceptive patterns

UX Collective

Avoiding Deception and Building Trust: The Power of Ethical Revenue Generation with Transparent Patterns Generated with Dall-E. If so, you may have fallen victim to a deceptive pattern. Deceptive patterns are design strategies that intentionally deceive or manipulate users into taking actions they might not otherwise take.

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11 Modern Logo Design Trends: The Future of Visual Branding

Inkbot Design

Geometric Shapes and Patterns Another overlaying modern trend is using geometric shapes and patterns within logo layouts. Patterns also bring motion and depth to a design. Combined, geometric patterns energise a logo with hints of mathematical ponderousness – strangely pleasing to our pattern-loving brains.

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Top Web Design Blogs in 2024

Noupe

WebDesigner Depot Roundups Webdesigner Depot gathers informative roundups that present the finest tools, resources, and design motivation available online. Insights Webdesigner Depot presents opinion pieces and insightful articles that delve into the latest issues, developments, and controversies in web design.

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Mobile search: which pattern should you choose?

UX Collective

Search examples We (Ksenia Toloknova and Marina Sapozhnikova) work for Alfabank and are involved in designing patterns for our application. Presentation method There are two main options of what happens after clicking on an input field or a search icon. Principle 2. Breadth of search results The search can be global or local.

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Design inspiration: our favourite projects from July

Design Week

As its name suggests, newcomer magazine FLIP aims to “change the conversation” around design, strategy and innovation. Boom Saloon underpins the content with an editorial design strategy not usually seen from a B2B magazine. FLIP Magazine, by Boom Saloon.