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13 Tips For Improving Landing Page Design

Simple, visual and practical tips on improving landing page design. — 01/ Use a colour overlay on images with text ‍Sometimes you’ll have to work with some crappy images. Try using them more like a background texture rather than a main focal element by overlaying the brand colour at a semi-opaque setting. This will give you the necessary contrast to make overlaid…

Visual Design

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13 Tips For Improving Landing Page Design
13 Tips For Improving Landing Page Design

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Design Systems Are Bullsh*t

In the name of critical thinking and healthy debate, it’s time to make the case that design systems are, in fact, bullsh*t. — Addressing the Hype There’s no denying the design community has fallen hard for design systems. It’s graduated from popular trend to fully-fledged movement. …

Design Systems

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Design Systems Are Bullsh*t
Design Systems Are Bullsh*t

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Deconstructing Dieter Rams’ ten principles for good design — part 1

Often the thinking of our design legends goes unchallenged. It could be time to start questioning the ‘rules’. —

Design

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Deconstructing Dieter Rams’ ten principles for good design — part 1
Deconstructing Dieter Rams’ ten principles for good design — part 1
A series of patterns using geometric shapes that capture some of the iconic features of Dieter Rams’ products.

Deconstructing Dieter Rams’ ten principles for good design — part 1

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Consistency the Killer

I used to be all about consistency. I was obsessed with Bauhaus design. I read about the great 60s corporate identity designers like Rand… —

Design

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Consistency the Killer
Consistency the Killer
Knife illustration with consistency the killer written on the blade, red lines boxing an area around it as if it was a logo

Consistency the Killer

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Published in UX Planet

·Mar 3, 2021

14 Tips For Designing a SaaS Pricing Page

Simple, visual and practical tips on pricing page design using before and after images. — 01/ Don’t miss your last chance to sell the outcome If your prospective customer has made it to the pricing page, they’re right at the point of making a decision to either signup or move on. …

UX

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14 Tips For Designing a SaaS Pricing Page
14 Tips For Designing a SaaS Pricing Page

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·Dec 14, 2020

Branding Your Own Startup

Revealing the Thinking and Results — This article starts by covering some of my process and thinking when it came to branding a startup I co-founded earlier this year. It then goes on to look at the visual results with images of the key assets and an example of the brand in action. Designing For Others I’ve spent a…

Branding

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Branding Your Own Startup
Branding Your Own Startup

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·Dec 8, 2020

Deconstructing Dieter Rams’ Ten Principles For Good Design–Part 3

The final part in a series of three articles that critically examines Dieter Rams’ ten principles for good design. — This is the final part in a series of three articles that critically examines Dieter Rams’ ten principles for good design. This article covers principles 8–10 and contains a conclusion. If you haven’t read the other articles, you can check out part one here, and check out part two here.

Design

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Deconstructing Dieter Rams’ Ten Principles For Good Design–Part 3
Deconstructing Dieter Rams’ Ten Principles For Good Design–Part 3

Oct 28, 2020

4 Steps to Put Ethical Design Principles Into Practice

Practical advice on what digital designers can do to incorporate ethical design into their work. —

Ethical Design

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4 Steps to Put Ethical Design Principles Into Practice
4 Steps to Put Ethical Design Principles Into Practice
An illustration of Rodin’s, The Thinker, with a laptop placed in front of the man.

4 Steps to Put Ethical Design Principles Into Practice

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Apr 20, 2020

Deconstructing Dieter Rams’ ten principles for good design — part 2

This is part two in a series of three articles that critically examine Dieter Rams’ ten principles for good design. —

Design

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Deconstructing Dieter Rams’ ten principles for good design — Part 2
Deconstructing Dieter Rams’ ten principles for good design — Part 2
A series of patterns using geometric shapes that capture some of the iconic features of Dieter Rams’ products.

Deconstructing Dieter Rams’ ten principles for good design — part 2

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Aug 15, 2019

The magic in grey

Of all the colours, grey is different. It’s carved out its own special area from where it practices its magic. — This article has been moved to: https://www.blogofpascal.com/post/the-magic-in-grey

Creativity

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The magic in grey
The magic in grey

The magic in grey

The word Magic illustrated in hand lettering with stars surrounding the word. The design is in different shades of grey.

This article has been moved to: https://www.blogofpascal.com/post/the-magic-in-grey

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