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Working from home has its benefits, such as avoiding the daily commute and having a more flexible schedule. However, staying productive can be a challenge when you’re surrounded by distractions and don’t have the structure of a traditional office environment. To help you stay on track and maximize your productivity while working from home, here are some top tips to keep in mind. 1. Create a designated workspace: Set up a dedicated workspace in your home where you can work without distractions. Make sure it’s comfortable, well-lit, […]

Taking care of your mental health is just as important as taking care of your physical health. In today’s fast-paced world, it can be easy to neglect our mental well-being, but it is crucial to make it a priority. Here are five tips for improving your mental health today: 1. Practice mindfulness: Mindfulness is the practice of being present in the moment and fully aware of your thoughts and feelings without judgment. It can help reduce stress, anxiety, and depression, and improve your overall well-being. You can […]

In today’s fast-paced world, saving money has become more important than ever. Whether you’re saving for a big purchase, planning for retirement, or just trying to build up your emergency fund, finding ways to cut costs and increase your savings can make a huge difference in your financial well-being. To help you on your journey to financial independence, we’ve put together the ultimate guide to saving money, filled with tips and tricks to help you reach your goals. 1. Create a budget: The first step in saving […]

Feedback, in whichever form it takes, and whatever it may be called, is one of the most effective soft skills that we have at our disposal to collaboratively get our designs to a better place while growing our own skills and perspectives. Feedback is also one of the most underestimated tools, and often by assuming that we’re already good at it, we settle, forgetting that it’s a skill that can be trained, grown, and improved. Poor feedback can create confusion in projects, bring down morale, and affect […]

“Any comment?” is probably one of the worst ways to ask for feedback. It’s vague and open ended, and it doesn’t provide any indication of what we’re looking for. Getting good feedback starts earlier than we might expect: it starts with the request.  It might seem counterintuitive to start the process of receiving feedback with a question, but that makes sense if we realize that getting feedback can be thought of as a form of design research. In the same way that we wouldn’t do any research […]

I’m not sure when I first heard this quote, but it’s something that has stayed with me over the years. How do you create services for situations you can’t imagine? Or design products that work on devices yet to be invented? Flash, Photoshop, and responsive design When I first started designing websites, my go-to software was Photoshop. I created a 960px canvas and set about creating a layout that I would later drop content in. The development phase was about attaining pixel-perfect accuracy using fixed widths, fixed […]

We’ve been having conversations for thousands of years. Whether to convey information, conduct transactions, or simply to check in on one another, people have yammered away, chattering and gesticulating, through spoken conversation for countless generations. Only in the last few millennia have we begun to commit our conversations to writing, and only in the last few decades have we begun to outsource them to the computer, a machine that shows much more affinity for written correspondence than for the slangy vagaries of spoken language. Computers have trouble […]