While it’s almost time to move on from my phase 1 project, I now have to plan to hand off my work to the developer. The hand off is the crucial step where the designer packages and delivers all the visual assets, designs, and styles to the developer who’ll engineer…

With a background in graphic design, I always love to see a good icon. A good icon is simple, attractive, and communicates to the viewer what they need to know. A good icon builds on a universal language understood by all viewers across all barriers of language. …

Musical taste is deeply personal, and Spotify wants its 345 million active users to each feel like they’re using a personalized product. Every morning I settle into my home office and start the day with some music. I don’t know yet what sort of tune I’m in the mood for…

Earlier this week, I read up on something called ‘dark patterns.’ Everything I had learned up to this point had taught me that UX/UI design serves the user, and uses research and design patterns to make people’s lives easier. …