Design, Design Management, Ideas, UX
Blue Sky Sessions
If your organization doesn’t “get” the value of design, here’s a great way to change their perception from the inside out.
Apps, Design, Design Management, UX
Designing a Better Native Experience
Several business needs came together to help kickstart the project for an overhauled “Start Screen” in our native apps.
Your In-house Design Team Doesn’t Need a Brief
Every so often, someone in an organization gets the idea that the design team needs a brief. The reality is a brief can set a designer up for failure and ...
Building a Component Library From the Ground Up
When adding a new component or pattern (or adjusting one that already exists), thinking critically about where it belongs is just as important as how it’s built.
Rebranding Goldstar
Goldstar’s new brand goes a long way towards connecting with our specific audience. Here’s how we got there.
Many Designers Working as One
One of the best byproducts of a design team working in Abstract is that it allows the team to melt into one.
Design, Technology, UX, Web
The WSL has it figured out.
The World Surf League, or WSL, has made some strategic design choices that make it a blast to watch. I’m sitting here watching the Margaret River Pro, an event that ...
Design, From the Desk Of, Technology, UX, Web
Case Study: Malagana Design
Malagana is an industrial design studio based in Bogota. We helped them rethink their branding and redesign their e-commerce site.
Apple, Apps, Design, Technology, UX, Web
Rdio’s Remote: Constraint into Advantage
Like other streaming services, Rdio had to make a decision about devices. Specifically, how the application should behave when more than one device attempted to use the service at the same ...
Design, From the Desk Of, Inspiration
Beautifully Minimal Guitar Pedals
In continuing my obsessive collecting of real-world inspiration, lately I’ve been pulling down images of super clean guitar pedals. If you’re at all familiar with products in this sphere, you ...