A single letter logo is a smart choice for brands that want a clean and minimal logo design look. Many companies use one letter to build a strong identity that people can remember. Creative logo design does not need many shapes or colors. It starts with a clear idea. Many designers also begin with logo… Continue reading Single Letter Logo Designs: 50 Modern Ideas for Strong Branding
Tag: used
The Core Skill of Design in the AI Era: Critique
Summary: To build useful and usable AI-powered systems, our understanding of users’ needs and our design judgement must be encoded into well-defined evaluation criteria. Design Decisions in Generative AI Systems Imagine asking a large language model a question like “How’s the weather today?” The response might include too much information (“it’s 72 degrees, and it… Continue reading The Core Skill of Design in the AI Era: Critique
Context Architecture
Summary: Context architecture applies information architecture principles to AI systems, helping agents interpret information and produce better, user aligned responses. From Prompts to Context The way we shape AI products has evolved quickly. It started with prompt engineering. Early on, success depended on crafting the right instruction. A well-written prompt could unlock surprisingly strong results,… Continue reading Context Architecture
The Four Design Jobs AI Created (So Far)
Summary: “AI design” is one label but has forked into four different types of work. What Does “AI Design” Mean? When someone says “AI design,” everyone in the room pictures something different. One person is thinking about using AI to generate component variations for a design system. Another is designing a chat interface. A third… Continue reading The Four Design Jobs AI Created (So Far)
From faster pencil to AI Experience Architect: a designer’s path
You can get there, but it’s about making the effort. The next decade of user experience work is not about prompting better, it’s about owning the systems, the white space, and trade-offs nobody has mapped yet. Most designers I talk to already use AI every day. It makes them so much faster. Sketching faster. Doing research faster. Writing copy faster.… Continue reading From faster pencil to AI Experience Architect: a designer’s path
Top 10 AI UX Tools for Smarter User Experience Design (2026)
AI UX tools are becoming part of normal UX Design work. Many designers now use AI tools to create layouts, wireframes, color palettes, user flows, and UX content. These tools help reduce repeated work. They also help beginners who are still learning design basics. UX Design is not only about making screens look clean. It… Continue reading Top 10 AI UX Tools for Smarter User Experience Design (2026)
Best Photoshop Tutorials to Master Retouching, Sketching & Photo Manipulation
Photoshop tutorials help you learn how to edit images step by step without confusion. These tutorials show simple actions like using layers, brushes, and tools. You can follow manipulation tutorials to combine photos, change backgrounds, and fix small details. Start with basic lessons and repeat each step until it feels clear. Practice is important because… Continue reading Best Photoshop Tutorials to Master Retouching, Sketching & Photo Manipulation
What’s an interactive element?
Two years ago, I wrote an article about the dialog element. I tested where focus goes when you open a modal dialog via the showModal() method. I tried different combinations of elements and attributes to see what happens because back in 2023, the behaviour was very inconsistent. In one of my tests, I put the… Continue reading What’s an interactive element?
Filmora AI Video Generator App: Create AI Videos on Mobile Easily
Making videos used to be very hard for many regular people. You need a big computer and many hours to learn every tool. Now, everyone wants to share great stories on social media every single day. Using a Filmora AI video generator helps you create amazing videos directly on your phone. This smart tool turns… Continue reading Filmora AI Video Generator App: Create AI Videos on Mobile Easily
Modern Arabic-Style Fonts For Arabic Calligraphy & Traditional Art
Arabic-style fonts are used in many traditional and islamic design projects today. These arabic fonts are based on old writing styles but made for modern use. As Bakra Eid is coming, many designers start looking for Islamic fonts that fit well with posters and flyers and give a strong traditional Islamic feel. Arabic-style fonts keep… Continue reading Modern Arabic-Style Fonts For Arabic Calligraphy & Traditional Art
Designing adaptive teams
A systemic analysis of Peter Senge’s learning organisation within the modern product and design ecosystem Designing Adaptive Teams Over the past few weeks I was reading the conceptual framework of the “Learning Organization,” as articulated by Peter Senge of the MIT Sloan School of Management, which represents a paradigm shift from the mechanical, industrial-era hierarchies toward… Continue reading Designing adaptive teams
Good Visual Design, Explained
Summary: To create appealing designs, align type and elements to a grid, build a clear visual hierarchy, use color intentionally, and stay consistent with every design choice. In this 3rd article in the anatomy-of-good-design series, I explain visual-design principles that contribute to good-looking designs, with real-site examples. How something looks does affect the perception of… Continue reading Good Visual Design, Explained
Dune Font
Dune Font What Font is Dune? The Dune Font used in the movie’s title is Dune Rise, a sleek and futuristic typeface designed by Fontswan. This font captures the essence of the Dune universe perfectly — minimal yet monumental, evoking a sense of mystery, scale, and power. Its clean lines and wide letterforms give it… Continue reading Dune Font
Claude For Code: How to use Claude to Streamline Product Design Process
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Anthropic Claude is a primary competitor of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Just like ChatGPT this is versatile tool that can be use used in many different purposes but there is an area where Claude shines and this area is coding. Claude is great at code-adjacent design tasks and can be used as… Continue reading Claude For Code: How to use Claude to Streamline Product Design Process
Stop Misrecruits: Add Foils to Your Screener
Summary: Foils are fake (but plausible) options in screeners that catch inattentive or dishonest participants, protecting data quality and saving time. Even the most carefully designed screener can let the wrong participants slip into their study. You may discover halfway through a usability test that someone clearly doesn’t match your target audience – leaving you… Continue reading Stop Misrecruits: Add Foils to Your Screener
Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
Summary: iOS 26’s visual language obscures content instead of letting it take the spotlight. New (but not always better) design patterns replace established conventions. With iOS 26, Apple seems to be leaning harder into visual design and decorative UI effects — but at what cost to usability? At first glance, the system looks fluid and… Continue reading Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
System Usability Scale (SUS) Practical Guide for 2025
Key takeaways 👉 System Usability Scale, or SUS, is a standardized post-usability test questionnaire. ❗ SUS is comprised of 10 Likert-scale questions. ⚖️ To collect the SUS score, you have participants rate how strongly they agree or disagree with statements on a 1-5 scale ✔️ SUS helps measure the perceived ease of use for any systems,… Continue reading System Usability Scale (SUS) Practical Guide for 2025
5 Image Editing Techniques with Google Nano Banana
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Image generated in Google Nano Banana (prompt: friendly banana in pixelated style of old games). Google Nano Banana is the codename for Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, the latest image generation & editing model from Google. This model has a few notable features that make it stand out, such as advanced image… Continue reading 5 Image Editing Techniques with Google Nano Banana
Information pollution, poisoning, and hygiene
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Abstract representations of information pollution, poison, and hygiene. Image by the author, 2025. People are information beings. Our civilization is created from shared information with practical application — part know-how, part doing. Culture is shared information shortcuts. Society is shared cross-cultural information to find overall balance. Science is information built for understanding more broadly… Continue reading Information pollution, poisoning, and hygiene
12 heuristics for content design
[unable to retrieve full-text content] What they are, why they matter and how to evaluate them. Content designers follow best practices. Image by Kit Overview In this article I’ll cover the following: Introduction to design heuristics Critique of existing content heuristics Summary of new heuristics for content design Guide to each content heuristic — including why it matters, how to… Continue reading 12 heuristics for content design
Mixed-Methods Research: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Data
Summary: Mixed-methods research combines qualitative and quantitative methods to explore a single research question. Teams might assume that simply sprinkling in a quantitative survey alongside interviews qualifies as mixed-methods research. In reality, effective mixed-methods research involves more than just ensuring that both qualitative and quantitative methods appear somewhere in the same project. What Is Mixed-Methods… Continue reading Mixed-Methods Research: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Data
The Product Triad: Design’s Role
Summary: Effective product teams work across silos to create value. Designers are expected to make products not only desirable, but also viable and feasible. The product triad (also called the product trio or three-legged-stool model) is likely the most common pattern for organizing product teams in Agile organizations. Its fundamental goal is to structure collaboration… Continue reading The Product Triad: Design’s Role
The social significance of Spotify Wrapped
[unable to retrieve full-text content] How the tech industry ended postmodernism and increased individualism Wham!, Coca-Cola commercials, and obligatory family dinners; Western Christmas weeks are very predictable. We even have a new December tradition: the annual Spotify Wrapped. At first glance, the concept seems like a brilliant marketing strategy, but there’s a deeper meaning behind it.… Continue reading The social significance of Spotify Wrapped
Creating Design Specs for Development
Summary: Design specifications should provide all the relevant information needed to align the design and development teams. You work tirelessly on a new design project. It’s your masterpiece… until the dev team says it isn’t possible. Most designers have experienced this situation at some point in their careers. As frustrating as it may be, there… Continue reading Creating Design Specs for Development