K. Nicole Stowe

feedback

Gradient Descent Into Madness

No, not THOSE gradients. Feedback gradients.

design process

This One Hurts, Because It's True

🔪 It might be time to rethink your moodboard.

exploration and research

Squaring the Squircle

🫥 A brief history.

exploration and research

Visual Scrap #17

🎉 Only fun things, please.

case study

Designing Another Scam

🦝 Or three.

design process

Information Extraction

🕵️ Why has getting information out of people gotten so hard?

exploration and research

Do We Value Art Anymore?

Art is what we do, not what we say we do.

design process

The Disappointment Curve

😟 Not every stage of the process is going to feel exciting.

it's relative

Goals, Strategy & Tactics

🥐 Let's talk croissants.

exploration and research

Visual Scrap #16

I cannot stop saying "tomb baboon."

creativity

Vague Discomfort, Values > Metrics, and Approved?!?

A selection of thoughtful hors d'oeuvres.

exploration and research

Over-Platformed

We are drowning in platforms. And those platforms are keeping us on the hook.

design process

Truth in Visual Advertising

There is a line, and people are crossing it.

exploration and research

The Short Skirt/Long Jacket Problem

Passing along information without understanding it.

exploration and research

Visual Scrap #15

Currently obsessed with...

visual helpers

Unseen Structures Pt 2

The three part structure of brand imagery that almost everyone uses.

mechanics of design

Muller's Ratchet

Understanding and misunderstanding image cropping.

mechanics of design

New Year's Card Design Breakdown

A technical dive into what went into it.

design process

The Nothing Burger

Imaginary nicotine and banana guns.

design process

An Inconvenient Convenience, Too Nice, And The Trap

Not a year in review.

visual helpers

Visual Scrap #14

The reading issue.

design process

Revisions

The biggest time suck in design isn't design.

color

Boring on Purpose

Not not a post related to Pantone’s Color of the Year.

design process

Visuals to Words to Visuals

What happens to visuals when we need to turn them into words?

mechanics of design

Unseen Structures

How joke writing illustrates that everything has a structure.