We take for granted that most users are familiar with common icons, such as a cog meaning settings, or a bell meaning notifications. However, the chances are that we’re going to need to make some custom icons that are specific to our industry or product, and we can’t expect a user to immediately recognise what they mean.

Being a product designer is kind of like being a jack of all trades — you are expected to do a variety of things and sometimes it’s even hard to jot down what skills you should be focusing on. If you’re thinking about that and how you can improve yourself you’re already making progress. No one is perfect, we should all strive to learn and improve our skills.

“Logomania is over,” declared Teo Van den Broeke, British GQ’s style and grooming director, in the Financial Times earlier last month. He was referring to the unfortunate fashion world trend of plastering every square inch of articles of clothing with designer logos, and sugges

Where do you place the primary button in a button group? left? right? When does it go fluid? When does it stack on top? There is no right or wrong answer to this. It is more about making a call and sticking to it. Having worked in multiple large-scale design systems, this is my take.

Design simplicity is a term companies use without truly understanding its meaning. As discussed in this article, simpler isn’t always better, and how designers apply simplicity can have positive and negative effects.

Pushing visual and interactive expression in design guidelines with Material Design 3

The Y2K aesthetic characterized the end of the millennium. “Things like rounded, bloated typefaces, hyper digital elements like metallics, gloss, mirror and 3-D, as well as implied tech elements like loading bars and rendered buttons,” said Jane McFarlane, the brand director of creative agency T

System Preferences has not only been renamed System Settings, but the menu also features a new design. Apple says this is “optimised for efficient navigation on Mac and delivers a more consistent experience across iPhone and iPad,” but users aren’t convinced. (Want the best macOS experience

With Evans Hankey’s departure, is design being demoted at the world’s most storied design-led company?

With DALL-E and others making splashes in text-to-image generation, Adobe shows that the company is finally is putting some of its own resources into the new tech.