Free stock websites often contain images what look fake or too stocky. Plus they miss the creative part. When you want to advice clients on creative photography, where should you look?
Every once in a while, you get challenged with designing the boring and dull stuff. Usually, this is something like a table. Or anything…
I got a medium subscription for two months, but disliked most of what I read. Click-bait and fluff isn’t for me.
Several metaphors that have helped me to convince others that spending time on good design is worth it.
I know the struggle of trying to find the right design books, and how often we Google things like “best books for designers 2020”.…
An extended guide on font pairing: how to combine different typefaces or fonts successfully.
In 2018 I decided to read 52 books in a year, one every week. In this blog post, I’ll let you know if I recommend this and what I learned during the ‘journey’. You might be thinking: why?! Well, I like a good challenge, and perhaps so do you. We see all those weird challenges on the internet lately, from taking a cold shower every day to reading 52 books in a year. The latter…
The state of design in 2019 In recent years design has become much more mature, we know what works for conversion and sales, we…
This curiosity of me about beauty all started because too many people neglect or don’t acknowledge the power of beauty. Too many people don’t…
I recently discovered a new approach to check if the usability of my design is right. And I do this by comparing my design to a human conversation because a design is often nothing more than a good conversation with the user, right? Let’s start with an example. Let’s say you are designing a webshop for TV’s, sounds fun? Then the next thing to do is to wonder how selling a TV in real life…