There is no problem in finding icons.Thousands of designers draw icons daily, and hundreds of websites offer them, often for free. The variety is huge. With that variety, however, comes a problem. A typical app needs 10 to 20 icons. Some icons are used everywhere, like "settings" and "open", whil

I recently had the fortune to explore the potential of tactile interactions while at Studio PSK, an award-winning design and technology studio in London. Because the brief for this project was completely open (it's rare that you get to be your own client!), I was free to decide on a product concept.

Hi. I'm Noah and I'm on the Product Design team at Creative Market. The product I work on is a website that supports tens of thousands of independent creatives, giving them a marketplace to sell their creative assets. In short, we help creators around the world turn passion into opportunity.

A lot of people have e-mailed me asking how they should get started in design. "I majored in rock communication (or insert unrelated major here) and minored in medieval pottery. Can I still be a designer? Where do I begin?" The best way to "get started" in design is to dive head first into your first project.

How to make your navigation obvious and keep people engaged This is a much debated topic and while designers, developers mostly agree on when it is a good idea to use a navigational drawer and when not there are still a lot of mobile apps that rely on this pattern.

Do you like dials, knobs, levers, gauges, toggles, dip-switches, knife-switches, blinking peanut bulbs, faders, patch-panels, big red buttons, keyboards, breakers, fuses, stops, fascia, takeup reels, wheels, yokes, tachyometers, odometers, speedometers, emergency handsets, mics, valves, periscopes, oscilloscopes, brush-switches, paper tapes, manufacturer's instructions engraved in acrylic signs, and other control apparatus?