Navigation design is the cornerstone for your website. It determines crucial metrics like conversion and bounce rates, time on page, traffic, and it can often be the deciding factor between your visitors having a good experience and exiting your website […]
Irene Au’s name is synonymous with scaling design. In her first position, she helped launch the original commercial web browser at Netscape. From there, she’s grown user-centric thinking and design influence at large consumer internet companies like Yahoo (1998-2006) and Google […]
Welcome to the next installment of Designer Confidential: a new column sharing practical advice on solving your toughest challenges like transforming your organization, creating a better-connected workflow between designers and developers, and building a great team. Submit your questions via […]
Feedback is arguably the most important design resource: It helps skilled designers hone their work faster, gives junior designers the opportunity to learn from more experienced team members, and, when done well, helps everyone stay focused on goals and outcomes. […]
Recently, I hosted a Fireside Chat about how to best communicate the value of design with Leanne Waldal (research leader at Dropbox, Autodesk, and more) and Kerry Rodden (co-creator of Google’s HEART framework). While we discussed the various reasons why […]
Name: LaDonna Witmer WillemsTitle: Associate Editorial DirectorCompany: DropboxLocation: San Francisco CA, USAAge: 40-mumbleYears in the design industry: 22 LaDonna’s story, in LaDonna’s words: I started my life as a farm girl in rural Illinois and grew up milking goats and […]
After speaking on a panel in 2018 about the creative courage, vision, and raw determination it takes for designers to “break the internet,” John S. Couch, VP of Product Design at Hulu, had numerous designers, entrepreneurs, and businesspeople ask him […]
In my tenure as an engineer at InVision, I’ve seen many mistakes made throughout the development process (some of them my own.) Usually, though, the worst mistakes happen during the designer-developer handoff. While I’d love to believe a prototype ensures success (especially […]
We’ve found that a handful of activities in our design process here at ACS Technologies are much richer if they are done with a group of people. Somewhere at the beginning of most projects, we do some version of a […]
If you’re planning on ringing in the new year with a job search, you have impeccable timing: The design industry is expected to grow 21% in 2020. The good news is this hiring demand means you’ll likely encounter more open […]
