Creative Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Originally a US import, Black Friday has become firmly embedded in British culture over the course of the last few years. More recently, however, there has been somewhat of a backlash against the annual retail free-for-all. Recent examples of retailers and organisations taking a stand include Patagonia’s 1% for the Planet stunt , which saw it give away $10 million worth of profits taken on Black Friday, and WWF’s flash sale of ‘limited stock’ – which turned out to b

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Noupe

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Starting November 20th and going until December 2nd, TemplateMonster is slashing prices on all retail products and one subscription web development kits by 70%. TemplateMonster’s vast digital marketplace has always attracted web designers, web developers , marketing specialists, and other creatives with a huge collection of products available for all purposes and topics.

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Creative Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

From her tasteful shots for the Guardian to her irreverent experiments in image-making, Louise Hagger’s food photography is underpinned by memory and emotion. She talks to us about connecting through recipes, secrets of the trade and how Instagram has impacted her practice. The post Louise Hagger on food photography and storytelling appeared first on Creative Review.

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Design You Trust

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Hope When you point your camera at a random thing on the street, you usually don’t expect much. But in the vast sea of dull photos that fill your camera roll, one stands out. Call it a miracle, or a lovely surprise, but if you feel like the pic is superior in composition, style, lighting, and somewhat resembles a classical painting, it may be that you have just encountered “accidental renaissance.” Source.

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Speaker: Amber Asay, Creative Director and Founder of award-winning design studio Nice People

Understanding what trends are happening and how they’re impacting the competitive landscape is crucial to providing top dollar design strategy to your clients. With so many trends coming and going, it can be overwhelming to determine which ones you should capitalize on and which ones might not be worth the trouble. In this exclusive webinar with Amber Asay, we’ll explore graphic design trends that need to die, trends that are starting to pick up and why, trends that have come and gone, and how t

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Interaction Design Foundation

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Abraham Maslow has provided one of the most prominent accounts of human motivation with the 'Hierarchy of Needs', representing his most well-known contribution to psychology. Maslow researched both 'exemplary people' from the past, such as Albert Einstein and Eleanor Roosevelt, and elite college students. Following these studies, Maslow produced the hierarchy of needs, which consists of five distinct groups of needs: physiological, safety, love/belonging, esteem, or self-actualization.

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Interaction Design Foundation

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Users are only human, and, consequently, they make mistakes. For their errors not to lead to poor experiences, it’s your job as a designer to help them. Discover the two roads that lead to error-resistant user interfaces: correcting mistakes and providing multiple approaches to a problem. Together, these options form a highly useful design pattern that has helped companies such as Microsoft and Airbnb to keep happy and returning customers.

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Creative Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Walala, who recently painted a parade of shops in east London , got the idea to design a new Oxford Circus at the beginning of lockdown – when she says she was “struck by the silence of the streets” and “the sense of peace that had descended on London in the absence of the traffic” Together with her partner, creative producer Julia Jomaa, Walala started to imagine what London might look like in the future, and has just released a set of renders that show an entirely

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Interaction Design Foundation

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

When thinking about user research, many people primarily think of classic usability testing. While usability testing to ensure that your design is easy to use is certainly an important part of user research, there are many other types of user research that are essential to working in a user-centered process. First, we’ll dive into what user research actually is; then, we’ll create an overview of how you can use user research in your design process by listing the three most common reasons for doi

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Design You Trust

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

300 Year Old Library Tool that Enabled a Researcher to Have Seven Books Open at Once, yet Conveniently Nearby (Palafoxiana Library, Puebla) Twenty years ago, you would have been the coolest kid on the block for carrying a Nokia 3310. But time flies and technological innovation accelerates along with it. Today, we live in a world ruled by touch screens, face recognition, and machine learning.

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Interaction Design Foundation

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Have you ever wondered how you could convey your design decisions more effectively to your colleagues and users in a timely and cost-efficient manner? Have you found yourself stuck in a design, unable to see alternative approaches? Are you sure you are applying usability engineering to the right design or to the only design you have? You can rely on sketching, a proven design tool, to help you explore your design space more fully, avoiding the pitfalls of focusing on suboptimal design choices ah

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Design You Trust

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

“The bench was comfortable, big broad arms, the seat was a good height and had a subtle curve, a great base, a plaque and a wonderful view. It’s a a very solid 7/10.” Everybody has a hobby. It can be anything as simple as collecting coins or stamps, partaking in certain sports, whether as a player or a spectator, or even cosplaying, but it can also be a bit more uncommon, like trainspotting.

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Interaction Design Foundation

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

The idea of the minimum viable product (MVP) has been around for some time. The term itself was coined by Frank Robinson but was made popular by two influential names in product design – Steve Blank, a serial-entrepreneur and academic, and Eric Ries, the pioneer of the Lean Startup movement.What is an MVP?The simplest definition is that an MVP must be the simplest core feature set of any product that allows it to be deployed and absolutely nothing more.

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SpeckyBoy

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

So you’ve been tasked with designing a book cover and layout. But what happens when the time comes to present the design to your client? Using a book mockup template is a great way to help them visualize how the book will look like once it’s printed. In this post, we’ve gathered the best free realistic book mockup templates that allow you to showcase book covers, bookbinding, and inner pages of the book. 17,000+ Book & Product Mockup Templates.

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Speaker: Sean Adams, ArtCenter College of Design

Thomas Edison once said “Vision without execution is hallucination.” This statement applies not just to invention, but to graphic design. One of the greatest strengths of graphic designers is the ability to first develop a concept and then execute it to make it real. From visualization and ideation all the way through to actuation and execution, each step of this process takes skill and expertise.

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Designs.Ai

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

The use of images in an e-book makes a huge impact on its marketability and readers’ reception. Images have to be formatted with an effective layout regardless if it is on a book cover or on the inside pages of a book. This ensures better marketing for the e-book as well as increases readability. Here […]. The post 30 Tips To Use Images Effectively When Creating E-book appeared first on Designs.ai.

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Communication Arts

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

“TED Countdown – Johan Rockström” brings new awareness to our global climate in an informative, impactful way.

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Interaction Design Foundation

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Eighty percent of what we do is pretty much pointless. Twenty percent of our efforts yield 80% of the results. The Pareto Principle is the idea that 80% of our output comes from 20% of our efforts. It’s a measure of where we can devote our efforts so as to increase our productivity and performance. Explore where your 20% lies—and become more productive.

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Communication Arts

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

In the industrial city of Monterrey, this Mexican multidisciplinary design firm weaves global influences into the local landscape.

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Communication Arts

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

For this Netflix series, MediaMonks and Henrik & Sofia created this online compendium where fans can interact with the show’s lore.

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