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Insights, ideas, and tools for designing the future.
Designing for Alexa
5 questions for Phillip Hunter: Designing voice interactions, deconstructing human behavior, and use cases for voice.
How to get practical results from design thinking
For design thinking to fulfill its promise, you can’t stop when you’re finished with the thinking.
How to apply design thinking in your organization
Design thinking helps organizations grow, innovate, and improve financial performance.
How to build—and grow—a strong design practice
5 questions for Aarron Walter: Shaping products, growing teams, and managing through change.
Guaranteed successful design
5 questions for Noah Iliinsky: Solving real problems, measuring success, and adopting holistic thinking.
How do I colorize an image in Photoshop?
Learn how to colorize black and white photos with layers and blending modes in Photoshop.
How do I refine selections in Photoshop using mask and refine?
Learn how to make detailed selections on complex images using Photoshop’s updated mask and refine feature.
How do I use curves to balance color and adjust contrast in Photoshop?
Learn how to manipulate color by applying a curves adjustment layer to a scanned image in Photoshop.
Applying user research to product development
5 questions for Amy Silvers: Implementing, embedding, and championing user research in design teams.
Design follows technology
We need to take a firm look at whether we’re actually benefiting from technology and why we’re using that technology.
5 developments that will shape design in 2017
From systems thinking to voice interfaces, these are the design trends to watch in the months ahead.
Dismantling assumptions with user research
5 questions for Steve Portigal: User research war stories, mishaps and patterns, and challenging your assumptions.
Pamela Pavliscak on emotional design that moves beyond delight
In this webcast video, Pavliscak explores the ways technology engages emotion and outlines a framework that supports designing for emotion.
Designing bots
5 questions for Desiree Garcia: Moving beyond building features and solutions to products and experiences.
AI and the future of design: Will machines take your job?
AI has raised the stakes higher than ever before.
Pair design
In this report, two seasoned advocates explain how pair design—the practice of having two designers work together on each aspect of a design project—works and what you need to implement it at your company.
Getting the most from your design team
5 questions for Peter Merholz: Building design orgs, eight core design skills, and how culture influences outcomes.
How to run an effective design organization
To maximize investments in in-house design teams, companies must put a structure and system in place to get the most out of the team.
Basic principles for designing voice user interfaces
Challenges and opportunities, how VUIs differ from IVRs, and tools for creating great conversational designs.
Growing a design team
5 questions for Alastair Simpson: Customer empathy, culture’s impact on design, and the power of saying “I don’t know.”
What college football and killer design teams have in common
Your company can’t win at design by throwing a few star players at it.
How to build great designers
5 questions for Ryan Noon: Why your company needs a maker space, finding inspiration out the window, and what designers and elite athletes have in common.
Visualizing Value: How to Align Teams with Experience Mapping
Jim Kalbach explains how he uses maps as collaborative tools, highlighting the importance of value alignment, and demonstrates how to engage others in workshops and exercises.