Tag: Designs

How to Describe Complex Designs for Users with Disabilities

You’re a developer who has just been handed a complex design spec. You know the designs support accessibility because your UX team read a Medium post about accessible design a few months back. It’s now up to you to build an accessible experience, but where should you begin? ...

In defense of better software designs.

If you use software for daily tasks, build products for clients, or design software for a living, you may think it obvious that users should be at the center of software design. But are they truly? Think of any common software or digital product you have used recently — were you frustrated wit...

Too afraid to show my hands — overcoming the fear of letting others see our designs

Ican still recall the day in 1991, the room, and her name. My classmate Dana looked at my hands during an activity in elementary school and gasped, “Eww, your hands are gross! Why are they so ugly?” I promptly pulled them away from the table and hid them in my pocket. &ldq...

How to Draw Hair Buns for Male & Female Characters Designs + Portraits

In this post you will learn how to draw hair buns for both male and female subjects. You will also learn the differences between male and female hair buns, how to make each look a certain way, and when to use a particular style, as each can give off a different feel to your character or subject. Las...

How Bethesda Designs for Moments

Starfield has been released lately and is a huge deal for the industry — with this being the first original IP from Bethesda in years, and taking the fantasy developer to the realm of the sci-fi. With that said, if you’re hoping that this would be a bold new world for the studio, it...

How Bethesda Designs for Moments

Starfield has been released lately and is a huge deal for the industry — with this being the first original IP from Bethesda in years, and taking the fantasy developer to the realm of the sci-fi. With that said, if you’re hoping that this would be a bold new world for the studio, it...

How Bethesda Designs for Moments

Starfield has been released lately and is a huge deal for the industry — with this being the first original IP from Bethesda in years, and taking the fantasy developer to the realm of the sci-fi. With that said, if you’re hoping that this would be a bold new world for the studio, it...

A Totally Objective Ranking of TFL Seat Designs

Fun fact: the suggestion of this article first appeared as a DM from a random girl on Twitter. It’s taken me so long to write this that we’ve upgraded from random DMs to living together. As an aside, I can highly recommend dating long-distance and telling border guards that you met via T...

Navigating the Service Design Landscape in Vancouver, B.C.

I’ve found myself become a ‘Go-to’ person for advice on Service Design in Vancouver. Here are some tips for people moving to the West Coast of Canada (specifically Vancouver), graduating, or seeking to make connections and build projects in Service Design, Customer Experience an...

Graphic Design for Mental Health: How Designing Can Center Yourself

Graphic design is a creative process that involves using visual elements to create a message. It can be used to create a variety of materials, such as logos, websites, brochures, and posters. Graphic design can also be used to create art, and many graphic designers identify as artists. How Graphi...

6 Principles for Inclusive Design

Inclusive design helps us create products that serve as many people as possible. While accessibility is a core objective, inclusion means much more. It enables people with diverse characteristics to use your product in a variety of different environments. It’s important — especially when...

The practicalities of inclusive service design

I think inclusion has to be intersectional. I don’t tend to talk about ‘accessible design’ because that’s often used in a reductive way to refer to physical spaces and disabilities, or to assistive tech and websites. Real people live in the real, complex, world, and will usua...

How to Protect your Energy for each Human Design Type

YOU DO NOT need to get swept up in your conditioned patterns if you don’t want to in your relationships. The stress and burnout of the Holidays, for instance, is due to acting out of your Human Design strategy. Easier said than done — I know! But the more you practice and fo...

Arbitration and Legal Design

Arbitration is a mechanism through which a dispute is submitted, by agreement of the parties, to an arbitrator or a tribunal, who will be responsible for rendering a decision on the dispute, which will be binding on the parties. The complexity of the cases or their broad scope …, on many o...

Experimentation Analysis: Sequential Test Designs

Why Sequential Test Design is Necessary Simply put, time is a scarce resource, and a rapidly growing business cannot afford to waste it. In current experimentation designs, we must wait for the test conditions (i.e., sample size, duration) to be met. This could lead to inefficiencies, as termi...

What makes for good exhibition designs? Reviewing the State Gallery of Art, Hyderabad.

On a scorching, dull afternoon in Hyderabad, I hopped on an autorickshaw and travelled 40 minutes from my residence to the State Gallery of Art. After living in four countries in two years, I have come to make art museum/gallery visits a part of my ritual to leave the country feeling fulfilled. I...

AI Prompts for Custom Sneaker Designs

The incorporation of artificial intelligence (AI) into shoe design presents intriguing new opportunities in a society where individual style is paramount and the recent sensationalism around Trump’s gold sneakers has captured the spotlight. AI is now more than just a tool; it’s a creativ...

Celebrate Love on Your Tips: Valentine’s Day Nail Designs to Swoon Over

Valentine’s Day is not just about flowers, chocolates, and romantic dinners; it’s a celebration of love in all its forms and colors. And what better way to express this affection and add an extra touch of charm to your look than with some festive Valentine’s nail designs? Whether y...