As I have mentioned before, every element in the document tree is just a rectangular box. Each of these boxes has a background layer that can either be fully transparent, a colour, or an image. This background layer is controlled by 8 CSS properties (plus 1 shorthand property). background-color The
Simple tricks to ship more side projects. I started 2015 by drawing letters in a notebook. I had no idea why I was doing it, or where I was going with it. I just needed to make things. Anything really, for my soul.
Using playbooks for designing and building products These are the slides and speaker notes from a presentation I gave on July 21, 2016 at the Design & Content Conference in Vancouver, B.C.. I'd like to start be asking you a simple question. How do you do what you do?
How one designer got hooked to a TV show in 52 seconds By now, you've probably heard about Netflix's latest cult show Stranger Things from your best friend or work buddy. And if you're like me, you innocently pushed play on a work night and by midnight realized the scene in your living room was looking a lot like that one Portlandia skit.
For a while has been our go-to app to create our tasty designs. It's quick, versatile and focused on User Interface design. There are many hidden secrets in Sketch and we wanted to share a few of our favorites. 1.
Home is usually associated with the place where you feel comfortable, convenient and safe. That is why, perhaps, the saying "Home is where your heart is" has gained its popularity.
In this video I've identified 10 UI issues with Booking.com's Homepage, based on some of the goodui.org ideas. http://courses.goodui.org/courses/betterui Watch the second video where I actually redesign this screen (and many others) in the BetterUI online course:
Design Doesn't Scale is a statement that has bothered me for the last four-years. When I joined Spotify's design team in 2012, the level of inconsistency and fragmentation shocked me. Up-close, the treatment of type, colour, imagery, layout, IA, and interactions just didn't seem to align anywhere.
