Jenny Carroll on Atomic Spin

Retrain the Way You Think About Visual Design

Visual design should support all the previous decisions in the design process – communicating brand, reinforcing navigation, and supporting workflows.

UX/Design Practices

4 Reasons Designers Should Be Coding

Many tools make it easy for designers to get by without coding, but you miss out on greater opportunities to connect with the medium of your end product.

UX/Design Practices

Decomposing a Large-scale Design Project

A systematic method for breaking a large design project into activities, features, and tasks — helping you spend your time in the most valuable places.

Personal Optimization

Inspiration & Insights from 2013

I was reminded this year to be a student, change attitudes through action, strive for balance, and focus on value delivered rather than work completed.

Growing as Makers

The Benefits of Sharing Ideas with Like-Minded Companies

There is immense value to be shared when ideas can cross-pollinate effortlessly between peers inside and outside of an organization.

UX/Design Practices

3 Reasons I Choose Agile Design over Waterfall

Many factors that go into weighing which process may be right for your team—here are some benefits to working with an agile project team.

UX/Design Practices

Using the MDA Framework as an Approach to Game Design

With the MDA game design framework, you can create software games that maximize the your technological competitive advantage and communicate your brand.

UX/Design Tools

Using Image Trace to Produce Logo Concepts

I've discovered a new way to convert screenshots into vector graphics — allowing me to create logo concepts by playing with fonts before I buy them.

UX/Design Techniques

Test(ing) Kitchen: Assembling the Ingredients for Your Next Usability Test

In usability testing, you put together some great ingredients, follow the necessary steps carefully, and – voila! – a greater design emerges.

UX/Design Practices

A Strategic Approach to Wireframing

This approach uses the site's content strategy as a foundation, and helps me keep that strategy in mind throughout my design process.

UX/Design Tools

Why I Use Keynote as a Design Tool

Keynote is a powerful, lightweight tool, and I use it for many projects — from storyboards and user scenarios to process flows and visual frameworks.

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