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Brand Building: Why You Need a Strong Brand Presen ...
I was recently inspired by Marty Neumeir's book The Brand Gap. As a designer, it's important to continually look for inspiration and educate your understanding about branding further. Here are a few of the concepts that stuck with me from the section about Brand Building. A brand is not a Logo, n ...
Important Factors for Optimizing Website Pagespee ...
Page speed refers to the length of time at which website pages and media contents are being downloaded from the web servers and rendered onto the users’ web browser. How important is it for a website to load faster? A web page that loads anything slower than 400 milliseconds is already considere ...
Should You Switch to Sketch for UX/UI Design?
For years I’ve been using Photoshop as my primary design tool for everything, from print design to web design. Photoshop was the all-in-one tool for me no matter what design project I would do. Of course, there’s Adobe Illustrator and Indesign too but I only use these tools if necessary and whe ...
Why Should You Use Linux For Programming?
Linux has become widely used by many developers these days mainly because it is an open-source operating system that can be installed in any different devices like laptops, tablets, netbooks, mobile devices and a lot more. I used to work with Windows back when I was in College and my classmates a ...
5 Tips to Improve Communication
Open communication is often emphasized to be the key to effective and sustainable relationships, whether personal or in the workplace. Reaching out to other people, especially with colleagues, is easier said than done. It can be easy to give appreciation, ask for assistance or updates but it can be ...
3 Essential Skills for Project Managers
A year ago, before I became one of Project Assistant's project managers, I stopped to wonder once in a while, what it was like to be one. Because to the outside eye, it looked like they just opened emails, created tasks, assigned them to developers or designers and have calls with clients. Like how ...
War On Bugs
It was the year 1946, Admiral Grace Hopper was just released from active duty then she joined Harvard Faculty at the Computation Laboratory where she continued her work on the Mark II, one of the first electromechanical computers ever built. It wasn’t long till operations had to stop because the s ...
Figma Design Tool Review
As a graphic designer, I’ve been working on Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for more than 8 years and I thought those apps were the best design tools and I wasn’t really willing to change. Then last year, I was on a research about topics on UI/UX, then I came across Figma. At first I was skep ...
My AngularJS and Firebase Wombo Combo Experience
There are tons of documentation out there that supports one’s desire to learn Angular JS The superheroic framework and Firebase which is also developed and maintained by Google, but for this article, I’ll talk about the advantages and simply what it’s like developing and AngularFire (Angular + ...
Tips to Improve User Testing
Designing for clients is no easy task. There are various factors to be considered, but user experience tops it all off. Design is centered not solely on what appeals to a user visually, but what kind of experience it creates. Visual cues are more standardized and it’s easier to pin down what is ...