UX Collective

JUNE 26, 2025

It’s glossy. It’s bold… and controversial. A calm, inclusive look at Apple’s most radical UI shift. Image source: Apple.com / WWDC 2025 presentation Apple made its boldest UI move since iOS 7 (presented in 2013), when the company abandoned skeuomorphism and buried textures in favor of flat design. Years have passed.

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Communication Arts

JULY 1, 2025

Just as Trawelt helps businesses navigate toward optimal results, its new brand identity needed to convey clarity, direction and trust. Challenges: Generally, the main challenge when creating the rebrand of any company is how to make it stand out from its competition but still be recognized as a part of the industry.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 15, 2025

In the wake of Chancellor Rachel Reeves' recent spending review, economic uncertainty looms large, with higher taxes on the horizon and business confidence at a concerning low. And it's the self-employed and small creative businesses who feel the impact first and most acutely. Take illustrator and picture book maker Francesca Grech.

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Inkbot Design

JUNE 11, 2025

Choose Software That Makes Your Workflow Seamless How you handle the day-to-day running of your business can directly impact your brand, especially if you appear on customer review sites. But when I started using a PDF editor, I finished everything on time, and the client was happy with how neat everything looked.

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SpeckyBoy

MARCH 20, 2025

A well-designed website isn’t just about words and visuals. It’s about efficiency, responsiveness, and seamless user experience. Without these elements, even the best content can fall flat. Today’s designers must juggle creativity, functionality, and performance while keeping up with evolving tools and technologies. The challenge?

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UX Collective

JUNE 12, 2025

Tech buzzwords are so snazzy, aren’t they. A general sending a first wave AI robot army into battle. Created by AI Tech buzzwords are so snazzy! Move fast and break things, machine learning, internet of things, big data, blockchain, pivot to video! All of them are evocative and creative and have lead to me day drinking! Some of it is warranted.

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Inkbot Design

JUNE 24, 2025

The truth is, as a business owner, you’re probably asking the wrong questions. The future of graphic design isn't about how things are made. It can't understand your business goals. They’re written to sound futuristic, not to be useful. These are distractions. It’s about why they’re made. It's a fundamental shift in value.

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UX Collective

JULY 14, 2025

We all need practice giving context, practicing storytelling, identifying business value and user outcomes as well as hearing others’ perspectives on if/how our ideas are solving the actual user problems you’re targeting. These resources can help. If you’re struggling with critique, you’re not alone. Their partners want to weigh in.

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Urban Influence

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

With social media playing a huge part in how people engage with the world and a global marketplace accessible in just a few clicks, building a brand that makes an impression and connects with consumers has never been more important. Here’s how they did it. You hear the word ‘branding’ thrown around a lot these days. Let’s get started!

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UX Collective

MARCH 17, 2025

had detectable accessibility issues, with an average of 56 errors per pagehighlighting how far digital accessibility still is from being a priority. had detectable accessibility issues, with an average of 56 errors per pagehighlighting how far digital accessibility still is from being a priority. Generative Art. 240716a by takaw.

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SpeckyBoy

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

So, how can you improve your chances of being in business five or ten years from now? You’ll know what clients need and how to solve their pain points. For example, writing expert blog posts or speaking at events. Then there’s the evolving software and ecosystem. Some may disappear.

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Creative Bloq

JULY 14, 2025

Here’s how it works. Image credit: Gianni Tozzi) Gianni Tozzi is the global chief creative officer at FutureBrand, an innovative global design company enhancing businesses through the power of brand strategy. Why not try a subscription? Image credit: FutureBrand) Could you walk me through a typical day in your role?

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Creative Bloq

JULY 6, 2025

Here’s how it works. Why not try a subscription? Every issue is packed with art and design inspiration Delivered to your IOS or Android device Never miss an issue From £9.99 Every issue is packed with art and design inspiration Delivered to your IOS or Android device Never miss an issue From £9.99

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Azure Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

“How are the spatial experiences of community embodied today?” ” This question is at the heart of architect Shane Laptiste’s work. And I decided to not choose anything and just go with a bit of everything. This is a rendering of an early project that incorporates some work of my uncle, who’s right here.

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UX Collective

MAY 22, 2025

Ill dive deeper into this framework with some practical examples showing how it works. Shearing layers (Duffy andBrand) In his 1994 book How Buildings Learn , Stewart Brand expanded on architect Frank Duffys concept of shearing layers. Designing human-centered AI products can bearduous. But flows are no longer precisely predictable.

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Moo

JULY 16, 2025

It’s an example of how brands can empower us to celebrate our bodies, our progress, and our everyday wins. Wellness has become something of a marketing buzzword over the last few years, used to sell everything from celery juice to cold plunge tanks to makeup. We want to optimize our health, and we want brands to help us do it.

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Azure Magazine

MAY 21, 2025

“My local park is criss-crossed with paths,” writes Dylan Reid in the introduction to Messy Cities, a new anthology co-edited with Zahra Ebrahim, Leslie Woo, and John Lorinc. ” It’s a vignette that introduces the complex relationship at the heart of the book: How should urban planning and freedom coexist? .”

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A List Apart

MAY 30, 2024

Let’s look at the different acts and how they align with user research. Ever since I was a boy, I’ve been fascinated with movies. I loved the characters and the excitement—but most of all the stories. I wanted to be an actor. And I believed that I’d get to do the things that Indiana Jones did and go on exciting adventures.

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Inkbot Design

DECEMBER 20, 2024

How to Manage a Drip Campaign: Step-by-Step Guide Drip campaignshave you ever heard of them? But let's dig deeper into what they are and how they can work wonders for your business. Drip campaigns allow businesses to tailor messages based on user behaviours or preferences. That's classic drip marketing in action!

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 17, 2023

He chats to us about how he put them together, and why they should be on your Christmas list. We chatted to Radim to learn what the books have to offer, how he went about creating them, and why people should buy them. But why two books at once: surely writing one is hard enough.?

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A List Apart

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Do you find yourself designing screens with only a vague idea of how the things on the screen relate to the things elsewhere in the system? In this article, I’ll show you how to collaboratively expose misalignment and gaps in the team’s shared understanding by bringing the team together around two simple questions: What are the objects?

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Read on to discover how to achieve this practice. And it doesn't matter how young or old you are: this back-to-school sensation can trigger a desire to learn new skills, challenge yourself, and take your craft to the next level. You're a grown-up now, and you can decide what areas you're most interested in and how you'd like to learn.

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Creative Boom

MAY 6, 2024

But honestly, how well did that go for you? But how do you achieve this in practice? However, if the 'stick' isn't working, how about the 'carrot'? Comedian Jimmy Carr often talks about how we must "give ourselves gifts in the future". Don't see it as a problem; see it as an opportunity!

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Creative Boom

APRIL 23, 2023

But how do you actually do it? So how can you survive the next few years as a creative freelancer? It simply means leaning into your value and effectively communicating what makes you unique, what differentiates you from your competition, and how you can prove to clients in a crowded field that you're the best option above anyone else.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

At the extreme, some clients look down their noses at you and think of you as a menial 'scribble monkey' who knows how to use Photoshop but little else. At the extreme, some clients look down their noses at you and think of you as a menial 'scribble monkey' who knows how to use Photoshop but little else.

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Inkbot Design

JULY 24, 2025

📖 Reading Time: 5 minutes 🏷️ Categories: Design, Branding, Marketing 📅 Published: [DATE] B2B Brand Positioning: Choose Who to Ignore Most business-to-business companies are utterly, painfully invisible. It’s the most ruthless business strategy you'll ever work on. They exist in a thick, grey fog of sameness. The result?

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Inkbot Design

JUNE 25, 2025

It's stitched together from real-world results, dev savvy, design taste, and the stuff that doesn’t show up on polished landing pages—like how well an agency handles chaos when a product drop doesn’t go as planned. Top agencies use wireframes like mad, test navigation flows, and know how to prioritise visually.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Read up as we round up the best tools that come in at an affordable price or even free so you can get your freelance business up and running for a minimal outlay. Read up as we round up the best tools that come in at an affordable price or even free so you can get your freelance business up and running for a minimal outlay.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 21, 2022

But how, exactly, do you become a professional graphic designer from home? People who don't work in graphic design often think it's just about knowing how to use particular software – you'll hear throwaway comments like, "Sharon can do the brochure, she knows Photoshop.". Image licensed via Adobe Stock. Study the fundamentals.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Artist has taken successful concept of workshops she ran for major brands such as Nike, ASOS and Timberland to help other freelancers or individuals get together and create. Freelancing can be a lonely gig, however much you love it. It was even better than we thought. It was something I realised that I absolutely loved doing.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As someone once said to me, 'How many recessions have you been through now, Mike?'" But how do you keep going when everything seems so dire? You need to accept this is how things are, however much you'd like them to be different. The Creative Boom community share their top tips. You're by no means alone.

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Just Creative

JANUARY 3, 2021

If you’re running a business, you can’t just hope for leads to come to you. But setting up and writing a blog is only one part of the equation. To succeed in business, you need a blog that turns leads into paying customers and offers something unique to potential clients. Here’s how to do it. Three Key Steps.

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Graphic Design Junction

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Any brand, blog or business operating today will tell you how important it is to have a great web design. As of 2022, a company’s website often is a customer’s first impression of the business. As a business or brand, it is important that you understand how to be found on Google. There is so much more involved.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

We explain how to shift your work and clients in a new direction and give yourself the dream life and career you always hoped for. So you've launched your freelance creative business: congratulations! So, how do you go about it? Image licensed via Adobe Stock Freelancing not going as well as you'd hoped? Then it's time to pivot.

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Inkbot Design

JUNE 26, 2025

📖 Reading Time: 5 minutes 🏷️ Categories: Design, Branding, Marketing 📅 Published: [DATE] Affordable Web Design for Small and Medium Businesses It is no secret that any business needs a website. You spend almost no time creating a site and can do your business. Thus, it is a convenient solution for those who plan to develop.

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Creative Boom

JULY 14, 2024

We share the community's best advice on how to not just survive but thrive over the next decade and a half. It's a great opportunity to reflect on how much has changed for creatives since we launched in 2007. So, how should creatives respond? This month, Creative Boom is celebrating our 15th anniversary. By being creative.

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Just Creative

JANUARY 20, 2020

According to one report, almost 80% of small businesses in the U.S. We would like to help you do that by showing you seven ways to create a killer social media marketing plan for 2020. 7 Ways to Create a Killer Social Media Plan. It is suitable for all types of businesses because it attracts a wide range of consumers.

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