19 May, 2022 What are the colour trends of 2022? By Gaya Gajewska Colour trends often reflect the times. Maybe because of the recent gloomy times, full of restrictions during the pandemic, design has...
14 May, 2022 Principles of Design and more from the ‘Father of the iPod’ By Ruth Nossek If, like me, you are one of approximately 450 million people who purchased an iPod over the last 20 years, you may have been just a...
09 May, 2022 How to build habit-forming products By Abigail Taylor Habit-forming technologies are essential for increasing human engagement with your product or service. Just look at Instagram, Twitter,...
05 May, 2022 It really is time to move away from the low contrast text By Gaya Gajewska It's good to see that the low contrast text is slowly dying out in web design... For a few good reasons. This short video from Nielsen...
05 May, 2022 Top 10 Free Design Tutorials and Courses By Gaya Gajewska Do you dabble in design and fancy learning something new? Check out this brilliant collection of tutorials and courses from envato. Learn...
24 Mar, 2022 10 very useful Chrome extensions for designers By Gaya Gajewska A very handy collection of Chrome extensions that every designer should check out, put together by Dineshsamala. I am familiar with some...
06 Jan, 2021 Top 10 UX articles of 2020 By Gaya Gajewska Nielsen Norman Group, the leading organisation in the UX world, has created a handy list of the most popular articles published in 2020...
14 Jan, 2020 Mapbox Studio: how to design maps your way By Gaya Gajewska I have recently come across Mapbox Studio, a handy online tool for designing maps. It's described as 'Photoshop for maps' as it lets you...
02 Jan, 2020 What UX/design events are worth attending in 2020 By Gaya Gajewska New year, new learning challenges...! UX Collective has put together a handy list of design and user experience events, meetups and...
05 Nov, 2019 Handy sketchpad wireframes for your UX projects By Gaya Gajewska Do you do a lot of sketching for your UX projects? Then you might find the UIPrint resource handy. It allows you to download a set of...
30 May, 2019 How to use WHITE SPACE to make your PowerPoint slides look less rubbish By Gaya Gajewska 'How do I make my slides look less rubbish?' As a designer, I get asked this question all the time... I frequently get sent my...
03 Apr, 2019 How real is a Virtual Dementia Tour (VDT) experience? By Ruth Nossek I have worked in the field of UX, Customer Experience and Online Learning for about fifteen years now, and am always keen to learn more...
03 Apr, 2019 Why is the Passle logo an octopus? By Gaya Gajewska As Passle's lead designer, I get asked frequently: why have you chosen an octopus to be your logo? Well, in short, they are some damn...
08 May, 2018 How to make a decent and shareable image at an event using your phone? By Gaya Gajewska You are at a conference. You want to share your excitement with the world, you take a picture on your smart phone. You are about to send...