Did you ever wonder what are the consequences of fun, when correctly made use of? The result could completely turn the tide of the project.
When creating systems, processes, journeys, or interfaces, we frequently discover the importance of minimising friction or effort between the user and the product. While too many obstacles on our path can impede one’s ability to realise the product’s value quickly, is it truly beneficial for product adoption and retention to seek out and eliminate all potential labour?
Lorem ipsum is an enigmatic model text that designers and developers use in wireframes, mockups, prototypes, or the app in progress. It’s meant to illustrate the visual form of the document when the final copy is in the making.
But also, it’s a sickness of the world of design and web development. Learn why.
Pursuing a career, following your dreams, or taking a step outside your comfort zone is difficult. But it’s not meant to be easy, just like running a marathon. Apart from being physically taxing – even for the fittest – it’s mostly a journey into the gray matter of the mental and emotional game, where the rules keep changing and your talents blend with grit. Here are some life and career lessons I’ve learned from running my first marathon.
I have a lot of helpful tools stored in many different collections, among others an abysmal Pinterest catalog with a very generic label: “Design.“ While saving pins is fairly straightforward, searching for the exact item might be quite challenging. All tools from the same category have similar names and keywords; color tools’ names are usually variations of “color“ or “palette.“
I used to identify my favorite color system tool by appearance, but ColorBox changed the interface, leaving me helpless for a while. I decided to convert my frustration into a side project — a flat list of color tools with screenshots and a list of features as several of them have some unique ones. Feel free to search this list and use the tools to color the world!
The whole product experience is a cumulative effort of diverse project roles and talents, not a ’rockstar soloist.’ Even though some of them might represent two opposite ends of a spectrum – like designers and developers – they have more in common than one might expect.
Furthermore, they can benefit from both opening up to each other’s perspectives even more and following the same common principles for better teamwork. With that in mind, here are some insights to help improve designer-developer relationships, and hence better product design.
