Digital Skills

Have you ever gone grocery shopping with a grocery list of items to get, but then walked out of the store with more things than your grocery list? Grocery stores are spaces that are designed to make you spend more money. Strategic aisle placements and product positions follow a deliberate strategy rooted in consumer psychology … Weiterlesen

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “The 1930s were ripe for innovation, during the thick of the Second Industrial Revolution. Designers were captivated by the new technology of plywood bending, which allowed previously impossible forms to emerge.” How Estonia, AI gardens, and plywood make designers prolific →By

Design is, by nature, a discipline that works with imagination (Folkmann, 2010; Tully, 2012). Every act of design is, in some way, speculative, since a designer’s work consists of bringing abstract ideas to life, ideas that eventually materialize into physical reality (Auger, 2013; Ward, 2020). When a designer is developing a product, digital or otherwise, … Weiterlesen

Lessons in clarity, confidence and community Nearly 1 billion runs were recorded on Strava in 2024. Targeting runners is a big market. And it’s a market that’s growing — according to Strava, running was the ‘fastest growing sport globally’ with ‘Gen Z turning to running to create community and connection’. Which is the winning strategy … Weiterlesen

The consequences of making habit-forming apps. Press enter or click to view image in full size Are our designs rotting brains? Image by Daley Wilhelm via Canva. I have two YouTube videos in my Watch Later that I have ironically been procrastinating on watching: replacing doomscrolling with writing (how to finally write your novel) and … Weiterlesen

Bridging the gap between atomic design and conceptual models To truly understand a digital product as a complete entity, our industry has two powerful but somewhat disconnected frameworks. Brad Frost’s Atomic Design gives us the language for the visible architecture of a product, the tangible components we see and interact with. Parallel to this, the … Weiterlesen