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Mobile Design

As well as learning the principles of mobile app design, you will also discover how to create responsive and user-friendly designs for all mobile devices.

Prototyping Just Went to the Next Level With Framer

Prototyping Just Went to the Next Level With Framer

The latest version of Framer brings closure (well, that’s my opinion anyway) to the ‘should designers code’ argument. Never has there been a greater opportunity, as a visual designer, to…

How Web Developers Can Adapt to a Mobile App World

How Web Developers Can Adapt to a Mobile App World

I work for a development consulting company that was founded in 2005. Up until 2011 or so, we worked exclusively on websites and web-based applications. Since then, we have aggressively…

Consistency Please! Style Guides in Sketch

Consistency Please! Style Guides in Sketch

Product design is a team sport. The best teams tend to have lots of moving parts: designers and developers and managers and researchers all working in concert on a single,…

Tips for Wireframing a Usable Mobile App UI

Tips for Wireframing a Usable Mobile App UI

A lot of time and energy is required to build mobile iOS/Android apps. Aside from the coding and UI design you need to plan functionality ahead of time. This way…

Designing an iOS App in Sketch: Part 3

Designing an iOS App in Sketch: Part 3

In this 3 part tutorial (I wanted to break it into more digestible chunks) well be creating screens for a fictional, ‘Pay It Forward*’ iOS App called ‘Piece’. Just in…

How Building an App with My Friend Is Changing My Life

How Building an App with My Friend Is Changing My Life

I used to be a happy man five months ago. Five months ago, I watched TV shows and had a few beers on Fridays. Five months ago, I didn’t even…

Designing an iOS App in Sketch: Part 2

Designing an iOS App in Sketch: Part 2

In this 3 part tutorial (I wanted to break it into more digestible chunks) well be creating screens for a fictional, ‘Pay It Forward*’ iOS App called ‘Piece’. If you…

The Do’s and Don’ts of Building HTML5 Hybrid Apps

The Do’s and Don’ts of Building HTML5 Hybrid Apps

In the beginning there was native code and it was good. Then PhoneGap, Appcelerator, Trigger.io, AppGyver and others emerged, ushering in the “native or hybrid” debate. If you aren’t familiar…

Designing an iOS App in Sketch

Designing an iOS App in Sketch

In this 3 part tutorial (I wanted to break it into more digestible chunks) we’ll be creating screens for a fictional, ‘Pay It Forward’ iOS App called ‘Piece’. Before we…

Prototyping with Marvel and Sketch: Part 2 of 2

Prototyping with Marvel and Sketch: Part 2 of 2

In the second part of this guide I’ll be showing you how to take the designs you created previously in Sketch, and setting them up as functioning prototypes within Marvel….

Prototyping with Marvel and Sketch: Part 1 of 2

Prototyping with Marvel and Sketch: Part 1 of 2