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Continuing the theme of the Design Project and starting with item 5 5) Search for visual style I wrote a separate article about this stage and the key idea in the next one: The main thing that needs to be understood is that the visual style has to be in line with the brand's message. This is the main criterion for your work. The style can be fashionable, boring, futuristic or any other style, it doesn't matter at all. It is only important that he awakens the right emotions. What emotions should...

Continuing the theme of the Design Project and starting with item 3 3) Thinking about scenarios or creating a Customer Journey Map A designer should think in terms of scripts, not screens. It doesn't matter how many screens you have, it only matters how convenient it is for the user to solve their problems using your service. Purely logically it seems that it is more convenient to do everything within one screen, but designers know that long forms are better to split into several steps. There are no fundamental rules in design, everything always depends on the task...

Thousands of articles have been written and as many webinars have been recorded, but the same reasonable question that concerns novice specialists is: "So what exactly should I do? In this material, I will show you what actions you need to take to create a design project aimed at solving business problems. At the moment I am engaged in the development of startup in the field of logistics and recently my main task (in addition to testing weekly releases) was to create a corporate website. In order...

If you like interviews as much as I do, you find them funny. I've been to them on both sides of the barricades, and they are often competitions in which the applicant is trying to prove that he is worthy of the job and Eichar is making intrigues for him. Sometimes Eichar is replaced by a leading developer or even a whole gang of interviewers, each of whom wants to test the applicant for strength. Of course, it's all very fun and maybe even works for large bureaucratic organizations. But I don't...

If you like interviews as much as I do, you find them funny. I've been to them on both sides of the barricades, and they are often competitions in which the applicant is trying to prove that he is worthy of the job and Eichar is making intrigues for him. Sometimes Eichar is replaced by a leading developer or even a whole gang of interviewers, each of whom wants to test the applicant for strength. Of course, it's all very fun and maybe even works for large bureaucratic organizations. But I don't...

Design No, not a big one. And just a convenient alarm clock for Android. After a long search on the Market, I could not find an alarm clock that I would like to use. So in this article, I will design the alarm clock as I would like it to be. I will say right away that this is an alarm clock for those who need an alarm clock that wakes them up in the morning, not an egg timer or a crutches' reminder in the calendar. Before I tell you what's in this alarm clock, I'll start with what's not in it. First...

I recently wrote about how I see my dream alarm clock for Android. Thank you to everyone who has offered their help with its implementation. To be honest, I did not expect so many great guys to respond and initially failed to cope with the organization. It's my fault that there's a bit of a mess going on right now. But this week we will deal with organizational issues and the work will boil over. Thanks again to everyone. And today I will tell you how to make a quality time drum for this application...

Over the past 10-20 years, the IT world has gone far ahead. Ways of interacting with devices have changed a lot, thus changing many aspects of life. But some industries continue to struggle against progress...

Design The change is uncomfortable. It's lazy to put it in your wallet every time, so it accumulates in your pockets, where it also gets in the way, and so it puts itself in the hallway, where it accumulates until it starts to get in the way there. After that, it is not clear where to put it. To throw away money is bad, to pay with change is inconvenient. Let's think, how we can solve this problem with the help of service design and modern technology. Monetomats As you have already guessed from...

Sometimes it is difficult to make yourself start doing something important, but unpleasant. Instead, the brain starts grabbing on to any other stuff, often less important and sometimes useless. The longer an important case is put off, the harder it is to start, the more the brain starts looking for loopholes to dodge it. Perhaps right now you are reading in search of an interesting article because you can not force yourself to do business. If this has ever happened to you, the first thing you need to understand is that it's not your fault...

Should a designer be able to work with web technologies? If you answer briefly: No, you shouldn't. The fact is that no one should be able to do anything to anyone. At least until you sign documents with a bank or someone else. The right question: Does mastery of web technologies help the designer to solve problems? Yes, it helps. Especially if you work in a product in which data plays an important role. Owning the technology will allow you: Automate your routine. Things that you do at a time can be done for you by a computer...

What does that have to do with oranges? They're just orange. I owe it to Habr. Two years ago I wrote an article "Web-technologies for designers - why and how", and did not publish the continuation of the article. And finally, I can repay part of that debt. All November in the mornings and on weekends I recorded training videos about JS for designers. In the course of the project, I experimented with different formats, equipment and post-processing. In this post, I will sum up the results of the month of work on the course and tell you what I learned while writing it...