Let's Change the Way We Design

Let's Change the Way We Design

Sustainable design empowers us to reshape our world, addressing urgent challenges like climate change and social inequality through thoughtful creation. As designers, we wield the transformative ability to reimagine products, spaces, and systems with an eye toward environmental stewardship and social responsibility.

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What Skills Does a Graphic Designer Need?

What Skills Does a Graphic Designer Need?

In the visually-driven world of graphic design, possessing a robust set of skills is as crucial as the creative vision behind the work. Graphic designers are the architects of visual communication, weaving together aesthetics and functionality to craft messages that resonate. As we edge closer to 2024, the graphic design industry continues to be shaped by technological advancements and changing consumer behaviors, requiring designers to be agile and well-versed in a spectrum of competencies. From understanding the psychology of color to mastering sophisticated design software, the skills of a graphic designer must be as diverse as the mediums they adorn.

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Our approach exudes honesty, ensuring a genuine connection with your users.

Our approach exudes honesty, ensuring a genuine connection with your users.

Our thoughtfully crafted visuals will intuitively guide your visitors to explore further. With our search engine optimized design, your website will not only attract more traffic but also rank higher in search results, elevating your online presence.

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What is Ethical Marketing?

What is Ethical Marketing?

Ethical marketers evaluate their decisions from both a business and a moral perspective. An ethics-based marketing approach focuses on the benefits that a product provides to customers and the positive impact it has on socially responsible or environmental causes. Understanding marketing ethics can be beneficial if you're considering a career in marketing. In this article, we explain what ethical marketing is, discuss why it's important, explore its principles, and review some examples of marketing ethics.

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“WAKE THE F*CK UP!” and start designing for all

“WAKE THE F*CK UP!” and start designing for all

We talk to Max Masure, ‘a white, mostly non-disabled, transgender non-binary queer person’. This is how Masure defines themselves, and this is the approach they are adapting in their practice. They work as an Ethical UX Researcher, Inclusion Consultant, Author, and Public Speaker, and aim towards trans inclusion, inner power and cultural change. They co-founded Argo Collective, where they design and lead trans and gender inclusion workshops and training in tech companies.

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The Dark Side of Human-Centered Design

The Dark Side of Human-Centered Design

Human-centered design (HCD) is an established framework used in design and management to solve user problems. This process starts by understanding users’ needs, followed by the conceptualization of innovative solutions to meet these needs. Tech companies use this framework to achieve a balance between their products and services for platform growth and revenue generation. The 3 principles of HCD are Feasibility (Technology), Viability (Business Perspective), and Desirability (Users).

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10 Principles Of Ethical Marketing

10 Principles Of Ethical Marketing

One of the most effective ways to improve your marketing strategy is to consistently abide by certain ethical principles. Some marketing strategies may be able to draw in customers by using shady practices (such as spamming, which no one appreciates) – but the cost here is serious.

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The 3 Responsibilities of Being a Designer

The 3 Responsibilities of Being a Designer

I’ve been spending some time wondering about what the biggest problem we face in design is. It seems as though we’re trying to figure out a lot of things. Should designers code? How should we best prototype the products that we work on? Should we release a minimum viable product and then iterate? Should we be optimizing for mobile? I’ve been thinking about all of these questions and I think I figured out what the biggest challenge we face in design right now.

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Design at it's best is connection

Design at it's best is connection

The core value of design is to create a true sense of connection- preferably in an aesthetically interesting way. A strong connection is to understand, empathize, and ultimately solve a problem.

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Sustainability in graphic and web design

Sustainability in graphic and web design

The graphic design industry relies on a number of resources, such as energy, water, paper, inks, solvents, and packaging. Designers make decisions that 'lock-in' potential environmental impacts associated with the life cycle of their designs.

Eco-design is a way of minimizing the impacts of graphic design on the environment.

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ORGANIC DESIGN | A BALANCE BETWEEN THE MANMADE AND NATURAL WORLDS

ORGANIC DESIGN | A BALANCE BETWEEN THE MANMADE AND NATURAL WORLDS

The term organic design was made popular by architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The label organic design is most commonly applied to architecture, but it is also found in other types of design such as: furniture, art, industry, and typography.

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Nothing could be worse than a return to normality

Nothing could be worse than a return to normality

Whatever it is, coronavirus has made the mighty kneel and brought the world to a halt like nothing else could. Our minds are still racing back and forth, longing for a return to “normality", trying to stitch our future to our past and refusing to acknowledge the rupture.

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For a sustainable design of digital services

For a sustainable design of digital services

Writing and sending an email. Booking a train ticket. Finding an address in an online directory. Streaming a video. Chatting on a social network. Shopping from a drive-in. Sending a package from your home: digital services have invaded our daily life.

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Design and Social Responsibility

Design and Social Responsibility

The idea that designing and building the physical environment carries social and ethical responsibilities is not new, but since the building boom of the early 21st century and subsequent market crash, there has been a growing discussion of socially responsible design. Socially responsible design goes by a number of names (including Design Activism, Public Interest Design, Human-Centered Design, Social Impact Design, Social Design) and has not been formally defined, but it is generally characterized by attitudes that value justice, equality, participation, sharing, sustainability, and practices that intentionally engage social issues and recognize the consequences of decisions and actions.

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