#design-decisions

#design-decisions

In this Procreate character design workshop, I'm going to share one of the things that inspires me the most about being an illustrator.It's the possibility of embedding every fibre, every pixel of your artwork with a sense of narrative that's happening right below the surface of the canvas - conveying an underlying story, just as if you're capturing a moment in a storyline that's already in motion.

No-code tools facilitate true co-creation.Photo: Adobe Stock by Patpitchaya "Designers shouldn't ALSO have to code!"This is a refrain I hear a lot.Some designers feel working with code is too complex; others that it is exploitative.They are not wrong.But prototyping is a transformative practice with profound implications for design.

The only thing the MouseBase doesn't do is fix that horrendous charging problem.For probably over a decade now, Apple's one overarching design philosophy has been sleekness.Jony Ive famously made design decisions that enforced this, much to the end-consumer's detriment.MacBooks in 2014-15 used glue instead of screws to hold components together because it made devices thinner.

Spanish architect David Romero has released a set of renderings that depict unbuilt projects by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, including a mile-high skyscraper and the floating cabins of Lake Tahoe Summer Colony.The images include a selection of Wright's unbuilt work, gleaned from drawings created by the renowned architect over his 70-year career.

Feedback is crucial as a designer.Sometimes we design things to get a reaction and understand how to move forward!Other times we design things after months of research and iterations.No matter where you work, with the amount of stakeholders design has to work with you may find yourself in some of the situations below.

If you are considering a career in UXUI design you will have done your research and, I'm sure seen how competitive the industry has become over the last few years.One possible option you may considered is completing a degree in UX design or similar field.Using my own personal experience of completing a masters degree in UX, this article with provide you with the benefits and drawbacks related to completing a UX degree.

It's Metacognition.Or thinking about one's own thinking.In other words, how to actively control the process of thinking during learning situations.Metacognition is an important skill for designers to develop in order to continually improve and optimize their design process.In the design field, it is essential to be able to reflect on and analyze one's own design choices and decisions.

Photo by Pixabay: https://www.pexels.com/photo/business-charts-data-document-259006/I recently did my performance review, which got me thinking about "Bill," a metrics-obsessed manager I once worked with.When you work on design projects, you encounter many different types of team members, some of which are trickier to deal with than others.

As UX designers, we only know our users as much as the knowledge and data that we have available to us.Which really isn't that much.Companies are constantly striving to improve their data infrastructure and their research processes in order to better understand their users and make their users happy.

User research plays a crucial role in informing and evaluating user experience (UX) design.It is a process that helps designers understand the needs, behaviors, and attitudes of their users, and how they interact with a product or service.By conducting user research, designers can identify usability problems, gather feedback on design concepts, and validate design decisions.

There's an old photograph of Steve Jobs in his twenties, sitting cross-legged on a wooden floor in an empty room.There's nothing in the room except a Tiffany lamp, a cup of tea, and a few papers scattered in front of him."He doesn't even own a couch!" the pro-minimalist crowd might shout.The photograph subtly supports the idea that to be a creative genius, you must embrace minimalism.

Photo: This will enhance the visual appeal.Ideally, I'd like to add things that are functional and not just there for visual appeal.I will be showing my visual design experience here in two slides to show the visual design process.Work: I will have to remove this value because it seems like a repeat overall since the folks visiting my profile are searching for someone in the field of product design.In a nutshell, persona mapping is a tool that helps designers and stakeholders to understand the user's world and help make the right product decisions that align with the user's needs, pain points, and goals.

Portuguese architect Carlos Castanheira has transformed an ageing stone cottage into a modern upside-down house.Located on a farm in Famalicão, in Portugal's Braga region, the previously abandoned caretaker's cottage is now São Cosme House, a two-storey family home.Castanheira's renovation uncovers the original timber roof structure, adds a bedroom wing and gives the building an entirely new interior layout.

Capping a week of Apple rumors about the company's mixed-reality headset plans and its efforts to design its displays and wireless chips in-house, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that Apple might reverse years of design decisions and rhetoric and add touchscreens to a future MacBook Pro refresh.The report says Apple's hardware engineers are "actively engaged in the project" and that the company is "seriously considering" the move, but "plans could change" before the touchscreen Mac's possible launch in 2025-don't expect them to come with the M2 MacBook Pro refresh we're expecting this year.

This week, a look back at four of our featured listings from six months ago focuses on homes in Marine Park, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Boerum Hill and Clinton Hill.How did they fare?For the buyer who sees the potential, this Marine Park single-family has period details, including a rumpus room, along with parking and a location near the neighborhood's eponymous park for under the million dollar mark.

maker will pay $520 million to settle allegations that it violated the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act () and "tricked millions of players into making unintentional purchases," using deceptive design strategies called dark patterns, the Federal Trade Commission said.The agency notes that there are two separate settlements, each of which broke FTC records.

Nowadays you don't need a design degree or have any previous experience in design to become a UI/UX designer.I am a self-taught UI/UX designer with no design background.All I did was learn the necessary skills from blogs, websites, videos & free courses to land my first UI/UX design job (which surely pays equal or more to the industry standards).

Or how reordering 3 fields took us from 80% to 94% conversion ?As product designers, we are simultaneously the guardians of our user interests and stakeholder of the company strategy.At Lydia, the design team has full access to Amplitude, the perfect analytics tool to measure both.It enables us to take the most appropriate design decisions with the endorsement of our data analyst teammates.