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  • shopify.com

    Empty States? More Like You Have No Idea How Much Work Goes Into Those States, Amirite??

    As someone who previously credited a not insignificant amount of my successes to my attention to detail (read: neurotic perfectionism), learning that working at scale means being extremely deliberate with how you…

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    How to Identify Good Design in 6 Steps

    Breaking apart the subjectivity. On my very first post on medium, a reader asked a question that really resonated with me. She started by saying that design is subjective and then wondered…

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  • medium.com

    100 Days of Vector Illustration

    It was January 2017. I moved from San Francisco to Seattle. The winter was dark and the rain seemed never to stop. One night, I sat down, played some music, and opened…

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  • medium.com

    Stop Taking Pictures and Start Drawing

    Some drawings look fresh and alive while others … don’t. What is their secret? Let’s look at cameras first. This is what happens when you take a photograph: The light rays of…

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  • wordpress.com

    Inclusive Illustrations, By Design

    I like to think that designers solve problems, while artists ask questions. And when the two go hand-in-hand, real magic happens. Why? Because the right question gets answered with the right solution…

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  • smashingmagazine.com

    Make ‘Em Shine: How To Use Illustrations To Elicit Emotions

    As designers, we often use imagery that resonates with our audience. Yet, often we also end up with stock photos and generic icons that come across as mere decoration. Or we bypass…

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  • medium.com

    Illustrating a More Human Brand – Part 2

    When we left the story, our ragtag band of illustrators was fighting the good fight to create delightful work for the Dropbox brand. But as the company grew, it became more and…

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  • magenta.as

    What Makes a Great Book Cover

    In 2015, I was lucky enough to visit an exhibition celebrating the artwork of Dick Bruna at the Rijks Museum in Amsterdam. I had long been a fan of his Miffy character…

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  • medium.com

    Behind the Scenes on the Inside Intercom Illustrations

    When we revamped the Inside Intercom blog, we wanted to provide readers with a truly editorial experience — something you would get from reading a high quality editorial publication, and not a run of…

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  • byalicelee.com

    Designing an Inclusive Illustration Brand

    Quick scenario: You're on your phone, going through the onboarding flow for a new app you just downloaded. Helpful illustrations appear, guiding and educating you through the process. Now hold up: are…

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  • uxdesign.cc

    Design Avatars That Make Sense – and Be More Inclusive in the Process

    In a world that is increasingly digital, human connections are as likely to happen online as offline. Social apps play a crucial role in society’s evolving norms around identity, and one component…

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  • shopify.com

    Product Illustration for People Who Don’t Know Anything About Product Illustration

    Why to product illustration? The first thing you need to be perfectly clear on, before adding any illustration to your product, is why are you adding illustration to your product? Wait. Shut…

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  • typographica.org

    Dwiggins’s Mark on Contemporary Type Design

    William Addison Dwiggins is a household name in typeface design. Yet despite creating some of the most widely-used faces of the twentieth century, like Caledonia and Electra, Dwiggins didn’t draw his first…

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  • toptal.com

    A Step-by-Step Guide to Designing Custom Illustrations Without Any Drawing Skills

    I see many businesses today use stock illustrations or images. Although these options are cheap, the brand message is diluted because the visuals are not exclusive to the product. In a world…

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  • prototypr.io

    A Designer’s Four Lessons on Design

    If everything is important, nothing is important If every sentence in a paragraph is bold, bold stops standing out. Not every idea, or every element, can be the star — and if you try,…

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  • medium.com

    My Design Process: From Sketch to Finished T-shirt

    The design process for this tee started with a bunch of rough pencil sketches. Since much of my day to day is working on my computer, it felt great to approach this…

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