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What color is your name? A new Synesthesia project will show you.

For as long as I can remember, I've seen letters and numbers as colors.

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CSS Scroll Snap - How It Really Works

Remember the days you needed JS to have a nice looking scrolling on your page?

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Ideas for a more functional Apple Maps

Concept design with features I think would be helpful both in people's daily lives and in new places they visit.

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My Google Design Exercise: Pet Adoption

After working on the UX Challenge for Deepmind, I also reached the third stage of the hiring process for a position as Interaction Designer at Google

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Designing the Chinese American Brand

When I joined the design community, one of the things that I became very aware of was the importance of typeface and branding.

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What to know before building your first voice skill

Voice assistants have a bright future at home and at work. I wanted to know what challenges businesses face when they build their first voice skill.

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Kindara: My First UX Case Study

Though I’m a huge supporter of Kindara’s mission, there are some parts of the app that bother me — particularly the onboarding process.

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Net Promoter Score Considered Harmful

In the last 6 weeks, have you referred us to a friend or colleague? This is the exact question Netflix asked its customers during its early years.

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Designing a report? Here are the 3 things you need to know.

If there's a holy grail project for product designers - it entails being able to design something from scratch.

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The New Walking Men Logo

Founded in 2001, Walking Men is a well known and respected Belgian digital creation agency.

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Creating a Web App to Ease the Burden on Parents with Hospitalized Children

My team was tasked with finding a web-based solution to better accommodate families with children staying in extended pediatric hospital care.

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Instagram Concept: Hashtag Filters

While Instagram fosters photo-sharing, there is little ability to search for related content within the mobile app.

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The iPhone X notch is brilliant. Three pictures can show you why.

I’m sorry. You’re wrong. The notch is brilliant. Here are three pictures that show you why.

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NOMAD: A UX Case Study

A passion project for an experience-sharing App.

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Case Study: Personal Logo Design

Periodically, I challenge myself to redesign the logo that appears on my portfolio website.

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How ex-Apple and Disney Designers Created a Brand New Design Process

Inventing Animoodles & bringing them to market.

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Diplomas or Helmets - Which logo is a university's true brand identity?

Having two logos may make sense when you separate athletics and academics as two completely separate entities that accomplish two separate goals.

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A closer look at Google Calendar's new design

Google Calendar’s redesign launched last week 🎉 and it’s bursting with juicy UX decisions.

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What is a "serif" in Hebrew?

When calling a Hebrew typeface a serif or a sans serif, one borrows a typographical term from one script to describe another.