Tag: Designing

Sit, Siri! Designing Our Tech to Have Good Etiquette

If you’re lucky, you awake in the morning to an overeager puppy who bounds onto your bed with happy yelps and kisses. It’s a pretty welcome start to the day, even when the bounding starts while you’re still half-asleep. Most of us, however, begin our morning with a completely di...

5 Questions to Ask the Senior Team When Designing a Leadership Program

When you’re designing a leadership program, how do you go about it? What does a good leadership development program look like? What do you put in the leadership program? How do you even write a development program to please the executive team and the learners? “I start with...

Facilitation Means Designing Conversations

I’m a Facilitator….which means I’m a conversation designer. When I design a meeting, a workshop or an off-site, my goal is to create an experience that shifts a group of people to a new trajectory, to transform teams and companies long after we work together...

5 Tips for Designing with Procreate

Recently I started a new role at Clubhouse as a Visual Designer, which meant my job would be focusing more on illustrations and and more specifically blog illustrations. It’s not something I had really tackled too often before. Product illustrations is something I specialise in, but ...

Designing UI Using Jetpack Compose

User Interface (UI) design is a critical aspect of creating engaging and user-friendly mobile apps. Traditional Android UI development using XML layouts and Views can be challenging and sometimes verbose. However, with the introduction of Jetpack Compose, UI design for Android has been transformed i...

Our Approach to Designing an Apartment for Remote Workers

Ina world where space is a luxury, the nomadic spirit thrives on a philosophy that less truly is more. For the modern wanderer, life isn’t about collecting things; it’s about curating experiences. At Settle, we get that. We understand that as a digital nomad, you’ve embraced a life...

Designing for accessibility beyond compliance

During my time volunteering at Neil Squire Society, and helping Hunter, a client with disabilities, be more comfortable using a computer, I learned a lot about how to better design from three key perspectives: cognitive, physical and visual. But those takeaways weren’t what stood ...

Accessibility: The art of designing for everyone

One of the most common buzzwords in the design community is accessibility. But do we really know what it means? Accessibility is not only about screen readers, contrast, or big fonts. At the fundamental level, accessibility is about every individual’s right to access information. We live in a ...

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEI&B) as an Emotional Experience for Designing Learning Strategies

In certain leadership practices, positive emotions such as calmness, cheerfulness, attention, or enthusiasm are discussed for the benefit of developing interpersonal relationships and increasing job satisfaction and performance outcomes. The studies centered around emotio...

Designing Museum Experiences: A Paradigm Shift towards Visitor-Centric Design

This paper critically examines the book Designing Museum Experiences by Mark Walhimer, published in December 2021 by Rowman & Littlefield. The book comprehensively explores visitor-centric design strategies and methodologies, aiming to redefine the traditional museum experience. This p...

Tips to improve your Fashion Designing Skills

Fashion Designing is an exciting and dynamic field that requires a combination of creativity, technical skills, and business acumen. To stay ahead of the curve in this competitive industry, it is essential to constantly improve your skills and knowledge. In this article, we will discuss  ...

The Role of Dress Designing in Fashion Innovation

In the dynamic world of fashion, where trends come and go, dress designing plays a pivotal role in driving innovation. The fusion of creative design and an understanding of fashion trends has a profound impact on shaping the way we perceive and embrace style. Let’s delve into the fas...

Tips to improve your Fashion Designing Skills

Fashion Designing is an exciting and dynamic field that requires a combination of creativity, technical skills, and business acumen. To stay ahead of the curve in this competitive industry, it is essential to constantly improve your skills and knowledge. In this article, we will discuss ni...