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How Much Design Is Too Much Design?

Design is never really done.

The End of Client Services

User experience design is never finished.

A Word About Unsolicited Redesigns

Unsolicited redesigns are terrific and fun, but…

“Sometimes I think design is winning. Then I log into my bank's web site and my payroll co's web site, and I realize: nope, not yet.”

Where are all the editorial experience designers?

The shortage in UX talent for editorial products.

On the Grid...

A conversation with Khoi Vinh on grid-based graphic design.

Introducing Mixel

A collage-making tool and a social network.

Subscribing to The New York Times

The numbers game behind subscribing.

Built to Not Last

Customer friendliness and environmental responsibility.

Facebook Home at First Glance

“I won’t like them any more for it, but I will respect them more.”

Weighing Sketch and Photoshop

“Simpler tools are very often better tools.”

“Idea: an app that remembers all of my ideas for apps that I will almost certainly never build.”

Card User Interfaces

A selection of card-based apps on a Pinterest board.

Designing Products for Existing Behaviors

“Products that change user behaviors require tremendous effort.”

Creative Cloud and the New Adobe

“This is starting to feel like a new and different kind of Adobe.”

Hollow v. Solid Icons

Are hollow icons really slower to recognize?

Wearables, Fashion and iWatch

On the key economic challenge to making wearables.

The New Stock Photography

Where to find it for almost nothing or nothing at all.

What Is a Card?

A working definition for a trending UI design paradigm.

Mike Monteiro on ‘You’re My Favorite Client’

A talk with the designer and book author.

Wildcard in the App Store Today

“The world's first browser for cards.”

Skala Color 2

“The most capable color picker for designers out there.”

LayUp Is Now Adobe Comp CC and It Launches Today

Quickly wireframe ideas for web and mobile.

The State of Design Tools: An Unscientific Survey

“The landscape is significantly changing for how we designers do our work.”

Blurring Is the Auto-Tune of UI Design, and Other Things We Thought About While Designing Wildcard 2.0

Design details of the news app.

Should Your Logo Be a Wordmark or a Symbol?

Pros and cons of the two approaches.

Where We Are Today with UX Prototyping Software

“UX prototyping software is in a truly germinal stage.”

The Tools Designers Are Using Today

Results of a survey with 4,000 participants from 200 countries.

Doing Real Design Work on an iPad

The iPad as primary work platform.

A Conversation About Fantasy User Interfaces

Interview with the man who explores fictional user interfaces.

Figma Debuts

“Figma is almost surely the richest browser-based authoring tool ever released for design customers.”

Finding a Voice for Design in Voice UIs

Talk about Sayspring, a tool to create interactive voice prototypes.

Two Very Different Kinds of Illustration

Let’s examine the way our products use illustrations.

In Defense of Design Thinking, Which Is Terrible

What do we want design to be?

Wireframe

A podcast about good design.

Introducing the Design Circle

A new collective of leading voices in the design industry.

Passwords Are a Design Problem

Password managers can help but huge gaps remain.