Thomas Byttebier, after having joined a digital team at Base a while ago: It’s been a crazy six months. And in all honesty: I struggled. I struggled with process. I struggled with communication. I struggled with clients. Front end was too far from design and content only arrived when a project was nearly live. As …
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Famous Artworks Ruined By Clients Who Think They Know Better
Designers often have to compromise with their clients, but sometimes it’s just too much. Inspired by a tweet and born out of frustration at client demands, Paris agency Graphéine decided to show what would happen if famous artworks were given to clients. “Make the logo bigger!”; “But my wife likes red.”; “That blue is not …
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Redesigning Chrome desktop
In the beginning of this month of September, the new Chrome Core UI redesign, or so called “Chrome MD” (for Material design), rolled out on Windows as part of our 53rd update. It is the last step of a three phase deployment of the new design,which started in 51 with Chrome OS and Linux, followed …
Title Design: The Making of Movie Titles
Web Design in 4 Minutes
Stress test your design with forceFeed.js
Fun script by Heydon Pickering, whom you might know from the lobotmized owl selector, and quantity queries with CSS. Static mockups are liars. They only show the designer’s content. The forceFeed.js script is designed to help you test your design’s tolerance for variable, dynamic content. A tiny script that “force feeds” HTML elements with random …
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GE’s Predix Design System
Jeff Crossman, Product Designer at GEDesign: A design system should not simply be a collection of user interface components along with some design theory. It should demonstrate how design patterns have been applied in real products and document how other teams have extended patterns for specific use cases. Our goal with this design system is …
Designing Ryanair’s Boarding Pass
In the following article we’ll outline the beginnings of the project, some of the challenges we encountered and ultimately what we learned from the process of redesigning Ryanair’s boarding pass. Difference between this redesign and many of the Dribble shots that can be found online is that this one was actually tested early on, and …