UX & Design Design Icons That Work: Insights From Neighborhood Signs I've started noticing a variety of signs around my neighborhood, many of them using icons to get their point across. What makes a good icon?
AI for Designers Designing in the Age of AI: How Our Process Is Evolving at Atomic After six months of heavily testing and exploring integrating AI into our design work, it’s hard to imagine solely going back to the old way.
AI for Designers Two Years Designing with AI: How My Process Completely Changed Two years ago, I was deep in the familiar rhythms of design consulting. But my process has changed after two years of designing with AI.
AI for Designers Remix Your Logo Like It’s 1999 with Adobe Firefly AI With Adobe Firefly AI, you can easily remix your logo into something fresh and unexpected—all by using simple generative AI text prompts!
UX/Design Practices From Complexity to Clarity: A UX Lesson from a Hawaiian Fish At its core, UX design means clarifying information or visually communicating to help people find what they need without being overwhelmed.
The Software Life Designers Should Start Vibe Coding Today Vibe coding for designers means we can now turn our thoughtful designs directly into functional prototypes and even fully-fledged web apps.
AI for Designers AI for Designers, Part 1: The AI Design Relationship Explore AI for Designers, from using it as a creative coworker to introducing new roles like AI training teams.
Development Practices Stay Flexible: Tailor the Development Process for Each Client A one-size-fits-all process won't work, so consultancies like Atomic should lean into tailored projects for individual situations.
Growing as Makers You Can Grow Your Developer Intuition We frequently talk about programming as logical and analytical. What does an intuition-centered development practice look like?
UX/Design Techniques Design Thinking Toolkit, Activity 10 – Affinity Mapping An affinity diagram/map is an easy-to-make physical, tactile, and editable tool that can help you see trends and areas of opportunity.
UX/Design Practices How Improving a Page Can Make a Software Product Worse How do you know when something is good enough and when you should be improving a page, without actually making things exponentially worse?
Design Strategy Go with Low-Fidelity Work for High-Fidelity Results Going lower-fidelity is worth the fight, I promise. Below are ways I’ve experienced the benefits of fighting for low-fidelity work.
