There was a time when I viewed designers with the same scepticism as I viewed homeopathy. When I pictured designers I thought of Mad Men, the creative department sitting around smoke-filled rooms waiting for inspiration to strike. But slowly and surely, I've realised great products are built by designers and engineers working together.

The modern web is full of colour-from subtle to bright 'in your face' tones. I'll be taking a look at the latter. Meet duotone-the hottest colour style of 2016. Pure duotone & other tonal groupings Love it or loathe it-duotone is everywhere right now.

by Published in Richard Fink Typography & Web Fonts I last wrote about the progress of webfonts for A List Apart six years ago. Very few sites used webfonts then, but there was a lot of pent-up frustration among designers to get moving after 15 years of confinement to so-called "web-safe" system fonts.

There has been a lot written about using personas in the design process. Over the years I've always shied away from creating detailed personas. Personas are ...

Note from Jon: There's a link to a FREE Sketch file at the bottom of this article. See if you can make it all the way through to your reward at the end 🤓 O ne of my favorite things to do in an app is poke around all the settingsand menus.