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    Unrelated Studio Partners with ‘The Onion’ to Elevate Iconic Satire in Print and Digital Media

    With a history rooted in newspaper satire, The Onion needed a digital platform that echoed the dense, authoritative style of classic print journalism. We crafted a visual identity for the website that was unmistakably aligned with this vision, incorporating traditional…

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    Unrelated Studio Partners with ‘The Onion’ to Elevate Iconic Satire in Print and Digital Media

  • Style Tiles Make For Quick Design Exploration

    There are a lot of ways to kick off a new project. You might host a discovery workshop that allows your team and your client or stakeholders a chance to discuss the product’s current problems and what solutions could be…

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    Style Tiles Make For Quick Design Exploration

  • Trusting the Process

    As a designer or developer, how many of you have been asked at some point to take a “test” for a job or freelance gig? Just as we expected. Every. Single. One. Of. Us. What other industries deal with this?…

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    Trusting the Process

  • Keeping Sketch Symbols and Live Design Systems In Sync Is a Full-Time Job … So Don’t Do It Anymore

    As a front-end designer at a service-oriented development firm, it can be hard to maintain a design-to-code workflow that is both efficient and practical. While there are more tools and plugins than ever at our disposal, there are also more…

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    Keeping Sketch Symbols and Live Design Systems In Sync Is a Full-Time Job … So Don’t Do It Anymore

  • Determining User Needs Based On User Personas

    As product designers and developers, we solve problems that our users encounter. Our work, hopefully, provides solutions to tasks that either take users too long to complete, confuse them or didn’t exist in the first place. But how do we…

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    Determining User Needs Based On User Personas

  • Collect User Data For Cheap

    We found, over our company’s existence, that collecting data doesn’t have to be an expensive venture. Nor does it have to be a long-drawn-out, time-consuming phase of a project. As agile designers and developers, we collect data during the life…

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    Collect User Data For Cheap

  • Build Your Product For Day One

    That goal: Build for day one. Don’t focus on what’s to come a year from now or even three months from now. Focus on your first release.

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    Build Your Product For Day One

  • Become a Better Client and Provide Valuable Feedback

    Great client-firm collaboration takes time and practice. It’s not always fun and it’s not always easy. However, finding and developing this chemistry will help teams build stronger relationships and trust which will ultimately produce more well-rounded products.

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    Become a Better Client and Provide Valuable Feedback

  • Designers Are Not Just “Designers” in Today’s Collaborative World

    Spool, a founder of User Interface Engineering which is a usability research organization, said, “Anyone who influences what the design becomes is the designer. This includes developers, PMs, even corporate legal. All are the designers.”

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    Designers Are Not Just “Designers” in Today’s Collaborative World

  • Quick Guide To Prototyping With Google Sheets

    Here’s the problem. Designing prototypes for clients in Sketch, Photoshop or other tools don’t always show realistic expectations of what the real-world product will represent. These tools are powerful, helpful and easy to use — for the most part. They allow designers…

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    Quick Guide To Prototyping With Google Sheets