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Design for the future, not the past 15 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
In the summer of 2013 I visited my birthplace, Romania. I rented a 2012 Dacia Logan (Dacia cars are made by Romanians), because it was the cheapest car available. I hated it. There were hundreds of us...
Designing the experience 2 Jul 2013 | 12:00 pm
It doesn’t matter if you have a beautifully designed button in the wrong place—it will frustrate the user and curse your decision of placing the button there. It is important to think how the user wil...
Creative freedom 25 Jun 2013 | 12:00 pm
Designers are creative people. We are messy. I’m not talking about your design process. You might have a factory-like process, be very organised, note everything in your Moleskine notebook, draw perfe...
Burnout 21 Jun 2013 | 12:00 pm
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. You know that feeling when you’ve been working a long time on something and you get burned out. You don’t have the energy to keep going, and you need a bre...
Inspiration 18 Jun 2013 | 12:00 pm
“Inspiration is for amateurs—the rest of us just show up and get to work” - Chuck Close I need my Muse Relying your ability to create great work, and to sustain such, on a website that showcases coo...
Doing the work 13 Jun 2013 | 12:00 pm
Everything you’ve learned so far, won’t matter unless you pick up your pencil, your guitar, your mouse, and start doing the work. Period. You have to do the work because nobody else will do it for you...
The experience should justify design aesthetics 11 Jun 2013 | 12:00 pm
Whether you are an advocate of flat design or skeuomorphic design, you must acknowledge something: these are aesthetics. They depict how something looks. But design is more fundamental. It goes beyond...
Standing out from the digital crowd 29 Mar 2013 | 11:00 am
Have you noticed? The most popular websites nowadays be it Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, revolve around a feed. A feed consisting of status updates, photos, videos, posts, what have you. Alon...
Must-have OS X apps for designers and developers 27 Mar 2013 | 11:00 am
Yep, it’s the post every Mac user has to publish at least once in their lifetime. But hear me out now; If you’re a designer or developer, you might this list useful. Efficiency is the root of all evi...
Design a pixel-perfect website 26 Mar 2013 | 11:00 am
Pixel perfection. Every designer worth its salt strives to make its designs pixel perfect. Unless they’re designing for the web. The web is diverse, fluid, overwhelming, even chaotic. You can browse t...
