The smartphone was born alongside the era of apps. Functionality was app-specific and took place within an isolated interface. There was no GPS in the early days. There was no real-time video (broadband didn't support it), and communication was asynchronous and still largely done via SMS, email, or old fashioned phone calls.

A lean framework for creating a customer-first brand that stands out from the crowd. "When technology is the thing you want, you don't need design because you want the better technology. When the technology matures, you don't buy it just based on technology, in that case design comes into the foreground" is the argument by John Maeda, the renowned design leader and venture capitalist.

16 reasons to drop using Sketch and start working in Figma Over the last 4 months, Figma fully swept out Sketch and Zeplin from the work process of the Statsbot team. I will tell you why Figma is so good and why the history of designers' mass migration from Photoshop could soon repeat.

Why so many languages invented words for colors in the same order. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO In 1969, two Berkeley researchers, Paul Kay and Brent Berlin, published a book on a pretty groundbreaking idea: that every culture in history, when they developed their languages, invented words for colors in the exact same order.

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