When Walmart acquires your company, you might expect your day-to-day to change. But somehow, apart from a blessedly brief moratorium on in-office happy hours, e-commerce website Jet.com retains its fast-moving startup edge more than two years after being absorbed by […]
Consider a good design brief to be the bedrock on which your latest design project will be built. And as anyone living on landfill in earthquake country will tell you: everything needs a strong foundation. Whether you’re working with clients […]
Like it or not, as a freelance designer, you are selling something on your website—most often, yourself. Copywriters are experts at making the sell, and their techniques work for designers too. Both designers and copywriters, need to be able to […]
Whether we’re walking through the ornate doors of an elegant hotel, greeting someone you’ve never met, or opening an app for the first time, we form our initial opinion on whether we’ll stay or leave in mere fractions of a […]
There are so many perks of working in UX: creative and fulfilling work; flexibility; variety—not to mention the high salary. It’s safe to assume, though, that you’re already familiar with the why. What’s not as clear is the how: how […]
Designers get their inspiration from all sorts of places: real-life experiences, current events, mentors, and of course, industry podcasts. Podcasts are one of the best ways to keep a finger on the pulse of the creative industry. They can give […]
“I can’t remember what I did for that project, it was 8 months ago!” “I can’t find all the artifacts and deliverables from the project.” “I can’t get this case study written.” If you can relate to any of these […]
When the infinite scroll was first brought into media publishing companies, prosecco bottles popped on every office floor as the new UX was rolled out company-wide. I know because I was there: I worked at Hearst UK, publisher of titles like Cosmopolitan […]
When I faced the challenge of drawing an app icon for the first time, I had a lot of questions—that I only found answers on some of them only after my first few completed projects. Now, as a designer at […]
In the InVision hiring survey, 83% of people managers cited “collaboration” as a top soft skill they look for when hiring. But General Assembly didn’t need a survey to tell them that. UX instructor Tyler Hartrich saw it on the […]
