by KarynZ | Dec 21, 2020 | Process
Great Visual Design Can Shift Your App’s Experience From Ho-Hum to Oh-Wow. The visual design is the last layer of the design work. It is the part that brings the structure and interaction design to life. It is the most expressive part of the design process. It...
by KarynZ | Nov 23, 2020 | Process
Wireframes are the meat of the design sandwich When most people think about an app’s design, they think about colours, fonts and images. And truly, that is part of the design. But only part. Let’s call it the top slice of bread. The bottom slice of bread...
by KarynZ | Nov 23, 2020 | Process
Create a System Map to get where you’re going Back when the internet was young and more about content than functionality, we talked about Information Architecture and created site maps. Site maps diagrams showing all the pages on a site. They are still used...
by KarynZ | Nov 18, 2020 | Thought Leadership
You can see the negative turbulence on the horizon. You know you need to do something, but right now, you and your team can’t seem to generate anything fresh or useful. You are in a brainstorming rut, and the pressure is mounting. Faced with this pressure,...
by KarynZ | Nov 18, 2020 | Thought Leadership
Talking to product managers about doing “design research” is a little like lecturing your kid about doing homework: eyes glaze over, focus shifts, the body language closes up. But it’s conversation product managers need to engage in, according to the 2018 State of...