design process

A collection of 73 posts

design process

Do You Need A Logo?

🚫✅ Seven reasons to declare a go or no go.

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Design is Action. Brand is Time.

⌚︎ There is no product that is not designed – good or bad.

lingo

The Hairy Arm

Like everything else, it's all about attention.

feedback

Critique Is A Superpower

🦸🏻‍♀️ A superpower that more people should have.

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This One Hurts, Because It's True

🔪 It might be time to rethink your moodboard.

design process

Information Extraction

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

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The Disappointment Curve

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

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Truth in Visual Advertising

There is a line, and people are crossing it.

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The Nothing Burger

Imaginary nicotine and banana guns.

design process

An Inconvenient Convenience, Too Nice, And The Trap

Not a year in review.

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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.

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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.

mechanical

The Frankenstein

Can you put a little of this and a little of that together, and still make it come to life?

very small business

L, M, S, VS

Three simple things Very Small Businesses can do.

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A Framework For Decisions

Controlling the flow of decision making.

design process

Design Is An Idea, Not A Tool

Design lives above any tool you might use to execute it.

design process

Mommy, Where Does Content Come From?

One of the biggest hangups on just about any website project.

design process

The Measurable And The Unmeasureable

When to throw away the numbers.

design process

Making It Better, Making It Worse

Why your idea died a slow death.

it's relative

Unknown Unknowns

Feel OK about uncertainty, and even use it to your benefit.

time management

The Other Way to Manage Deadlines

Ask this one question.

design process

Who Your Visuals Hang Out With Matters

Using Context and Boardsmanship.

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New Year's Card Breakdown

A design execution case study.