Of all of the design skills to master to become a good designer, typography was always the hardest for me. I believe the reason for this lies in the generation in which I entered design.
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UX Reflective Journaling Week 5
We have arrived! Welcome to week five. As a designer the remaining the module and weeks feel a bit more familiar and safe for me.
UX Reflective Journaling Week 3
I think this was a rather great end to a very informative week. During this week’s readings, we can an opportunity to dive deeper into human psychology. And around why people make mistakes and how we can design to help avoid them. It was interesting to learn that slips tend to happen more to people…
UX Reflective Journaling Week 1
So here we are, after one week of taking the UX course. Full disclosure, before deciding to take this course I attempted to apply for a few full-time UX jobs. With my design experience, I felt like I had the necessary tools and experience to “Fake it till you make it”. I was mistaken, there are so many nuances in UX that one has to learn, and so far I am glad I decided to go down this path of learning and enlightenment.
Animation station: My love letter to animation
Animation for me and most tends to remain in the realm of design and creative magic. It may sound like the ravings of a madman but many us of who can still remember what their favorite morning cartoons were, they gave of something to look forward to, they gave us hope, they made us laugh,…
Designing with Adobe XD. Book’d a user experience design case study.
A few years ago I partnered with a local startup to create an app called Book’d. The following is a user experience design case study based on that project.
Getting inspiration from everywhere. One of the unsung skills of a creative designer.
One of the unsung skills of a creative designer is getting inspiration from everywhere. A couple of years ago while working for Dell the team of designers that I worked with was asked to enter a sort of internal competition. The end result, one person’s design would be chosen to be featured at Dell World…
Defining the voice of a brand. Gravity Healthcare: Case Study
The problem: Gravity Healthcare was new to the market and was badly in need of new branding and identity design. Research: The company was new to the market and had a unique positioning element, they were creating motion tracking technology to improve the clinical experience. My solution: After digging into the market and figuring out…
Getting past the creative block, by staring past the blank screen.
We’ve all been there, whether it’s working for a client as a freelancer or working on an in-house team. You get a project, you get the deadline but your brain is drawing a blank.
What does branding mean?
What does branding mean to you? How important is it to your business? Is it even necessary? First off to answer that these questions let’s start with what it technically means. One definition according to Google “the promotion of a particular product or company by means of advertising and distinctive design”. I think that about sums it up, but as you dig deeper into the meaning and its impact on your potential perceived value it gets a little more important than that .