October 2020
20 Things Every Designer Should Know About Working Remotely in 2020
2020 was a landmark year in many ways, including how it transformed the way many of us do our jobs. In many cases, people whose jobs were moved to working remotely in 2020 are looking at a permanent change rather than a short-term one. Companies like saving money on...
A Guide to Crafting the Perfect Cover Letter
Writing a cover letter that properly illustrates your skills and personality is one of the most challenging parts of a job application. Unlike employment history and case studies, cover letters don’t have an objective point of view. Walking the line between informing a prospective employer of your skills and...
The Competitive Edge: How to Outshine Other UX/UI Designers in Your Industry
A growing number of industry experts are talking about a hiring spike in the UX/UI design field. Some revelations from the Bureau of Labor Statistic’s latest jobs report indicate that this growth may already be starting, in large part due to companies’ mad rush to get their business models...
2020 Job Report: Which Jobs Earn the Most Money On Average?
As 2020 begins to wind down, it’s important to take a retrospective on our working lives and how much has changed. Like many landmark years before it, 2020 will go down in history as one of the largest tidal changes in the world labor market. A significant percentage of...
A Guide to Staying Productive While Working From Home
Remote work is becoming increasingly common even without the unprecedented changes 2020 brought us. As many of the elements of traditional office work have disappeared, many creatives are finding it hard to stay on top of deadlines and work tasks. Oddly enough, working from the place where we’re most...
How Remote Work is Changing the Ways Companies Hire
More and more frequently, companies are including partial or full-time working from home positions into their employment structures. This is in large part due to the development of new technology and the growing abundance of faster internet connections that enable people to reliably get work done outside of a...
September 2020
Responsive v.s. Adaptive Design: Everything You Need to Know About
Designers are commonly tasked with building websites, apps, and other products that can be viewed on all the various platforms we use to access the internet today. Computers, smartphones, wearable tech, and tablets all have different limitations in terms of the way they handle webpages. There are two ways...
10 New Design Thinking Books To Read in 2020
Continuing education is imperative for creatives to stay keen and on the cutting edge of ideas in their respective fields. Each year, over one million books are printed in the United States and a significant number of those are about design thinking. For those not familiar, design thinking is...