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What Kind of Designer Are You?
Do you plan carefully, or embrace the process? Do you prefer to win a pitch, or an award? Do you like arriving, or enjoying the journey? Are you a painter, a team player, a conductor, a perfectionist, or something else? Take this fun quiz and discover what type of designer you are, together with a surprisingly accurate list of key traits, and potential weaknesses.
WordPress Passes 30%
TNW reports that according to W3Techs, WordPress now powers 30% of all the sites on the web. Three in every ten sites use the Automattic's behemoth, covering 60% of the whole CMS market. With Google's recent announcement that it has dispatched a team to iron out WordPress' flaws, how long before WordPress becomes the new web standard?
Design for the Right Audience
When we present design concepts, the most common sense approach is to focus on the end user. What we often forget, is that we also need to present our designs to decision makers; business leaders, marketing professionals, and developers. Jon Moore's excellent guide will teach you how to pitch to, and win the support of stakeholders.
Perfecting Ericsson's Logo
A new logomark has been released for Swedish communications company Ericsson. At first glance, you'll hardly notice the difference, but thanks to Under Consideration's detailed assessment the refinements are obvious. From greatly improved spacing, to the right angle for all pixel densities, it's a perfectly optimized icon.
3 Essential Design Trends
Spring is just around the corner, and the change of season has inspired our roundup of the top three essential design trends emerging this month. Poster-style homepages are back, gradients applied to text is a new fashion, and is that the arrival of Pantone's color of 2018 we spy? Get your monthly fix of design inspiration here.
Keeping Sight of Users
Intercom's Adam Risman interviews Joel Califa, Senior Product Designer at Github about the challenges of designing products for developers, how designers can target "tiny wins"—the small victories that require little effort to implement but have a big impact—and how to ensure that users' needs win out against business goals.
Grab Color Schemes from Dribbble
How often do you browse Dribbble looking for color inspiration? Like most of us, you probably come across color schemes you love all the time, and then spend ages noting down RGB values. Dribbble Color Generator is a fantastic Chrome extension that grabs colors from Dribbble and saves them as a JSON file for importing to Sketch.
Design System Thinking
Design systems are related items that interact, and are greater than the sum of their parts. What that actually means for designers, is often confused. Henry Modisett's excellent in-depth look at design systems, and how design systems impact product thinking is a must read for UX designers and product designers alike.
7 Objective Design Principles
We're often sold the myth that design is subjective, that it is a matter of taste. But design is frequently objective. From good design being accessible, to good design being responsive, to good design being predictable, this list of universal design principles updates Dieter Rams' design principles for the modern web.
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