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Dazed & Confused: How to Keep Your Clients in the Know

To be a successful product lead, you must also be an excellent educator.

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Why Visual Design is More Than Making Things “Pretty”

Aesthetics have a function. Studies show emotions play a vital role in a users’ experience. How can we leverage design to influence behavior and emotion?

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Mind the Gap(s) – The Importance of Negative Space in Design

When a design isn't working, the instinct can often be to add more—more lines, more color, more design—when in reality, the answer is so often, do less.

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Design Rituals at Atomic

Keeping our software design team — split among two offices & a dozen projects — connected and sharing work.

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When To Compare Features of a Competing App

If your new app will have a near competitor, how much do you want to know about that product before you start planning yours?

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Form Does Count – Why Even Small Design Decisions Matter

Avoiding details and ignoring small errors will add up to a lousy software experience. Every design decision matters.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Prioritizing Joy

How do we prioritize an emotional connection in an Agile project? Here’s one possible strategy.

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Design Saturates Our Software Process

Agile design is infused into all stages of software product development, and developers participate in strategic and tangible design throughout the project.

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