Design systems can be thought of as documentation for designers and developers. They describe how interfaces should look and feel, and often guide developers on how to best develop them.
The best way to get a handle on design systems is to look at what’s already been done. Design systems…
I’ve struggled with writing for a long time. I’ve had lots of starts and stops. It’s “time-consuming,” I’m not very good at it, and often, like a chore, I put it off because I have more important things to do. Unlike chores, I don’t eventually have to write. …
Taking a break from writing code.
I wanted to quickly talk about the idea of always doing “research.” This came up as a topic on TheDesignSuperpower episode #9, but I wanted to expand on this.
For me at least, there’s two kinds of research: user research and competitor research. Both…
Logo development is something I’ve never really done professionally. It’s fun to think about, but I’ve always worked with excellent visual designers and illustrators who know what they’re doing.
I thought it would be a fun challenge to do this myself. Of course, coming up with a solid, polished logo…
In the process of building Novel Monkey I’ve been referring to many useful articles and resources.
For mostly my own benefit, I’ll list all of them in here as a handy resource.
Branding Psychology: https://medium.com/@nucreative/the-psychology-of-logo-designs-infographic-fb17ae014d11#.9aogpj835
Brand Styleguide Design: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/07/designing-style-guidelines-for-brands-and-websites/
Top Trends; Brand and Identity: https://uxdesign.cc/top-three-ux-mobile-design-trends-82f6530e6cba#.po9w7vgzd
Building First Impressions: https://medium.com/startup-grind/you-need-to-think-more-about-your-products-first-impression-be70ab984ac7#.8zsihqifr
Interface and Pronouns (you, me; yours, mine): https://medium.com/@jsaito/is-this-my-interface-or-yours-b09a7a795256#.450tmg39c
Typography and Font Size: https://medium.com/@xtianmiller/your-body-text-is-too-small-5e02d36dc902#.tgtib2gw6
Style Guide & Content Strategy: https://medium.com/@johnamwill/your-style-guides-missing-something-and-it-s-big-263a6124f6d2#.z4slkls76
MailChimp Voice and Tone Guide: http://styleguide.mailchimp.com/voice-and-tone/; http://voiceandtone.com/
Don’t Bullshit: http://deathtobullshit.com/
It’s not much, and it’s kind of janky—everything is kind of janky, but I decided to throw up a temporary splash page. So there’s that!
Now all four of you following this dev blog, go forth to novelmonkey.com and boost my Google Analytics to the teens!
Initially it seemed quite…
Ok, I’m the kind of person that wants to sit down, think about things, and make sure I design and build it right. It has to be just right, pixel perfect, and the code has to be clean, legible, and functional.
I feel like I could write a longer, more…
This is what I wrote from another post:
I kind of understand why they call it the grind now. You’re just doing a lot of work — you’re doing ALL the work, you barely feel like you know what you’re doing, there’s so much to do, you have no idea…
is a UX designer & prototype developer. Helps startups, and builds projects like the http://phage.directory and http://novelmonkey.com
