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[Podcast] The Brand Storytelling Formula That Actually Works with Park Howell
In this episode, Park explains why story remains one of the most powerful tools in brand building, what separates a memorable narrative from an interesting one and how brands can shift from simply telling stories to beco…
Rethinking design leadership with swarms and flocks
What Star Wars got wrong about AI (so far)
Framer is killing the marketplace… or are they?
New EU Guidelines For AI Labelling
New EU guidelines, why AI sparkles aren’t enough, when AI labels are required, and what the rules mean for AI-powered features and products.
What a dollhouse full of death taught me about thinking
We’re gorging on borrowed trust and it’s going to cost us.
Building Tactile UX: Honoring Intentional Design With Lottie
When tasked with building a highly interactive, tactile web experience, the architecture must serve the art direction. In this article, Alexey Kopytin explains their architectural rationale for building a digital stress-…
How Baseline Can Help You Ship Less JavaScript
The gap between “you need a library for this” and “the browser does this” keeps closing. A practical guide to auditing your dependencies and finding what the web platform can now handle for you.
Behind the Scenes of the World’s Largest Virtual Branding Summit
Discover how to plan a successful virtual summit, from strategy and speaker outreach to branding, promotion, registration and event delivery.
[Podcast] Creative Leadership & The Future of Branding with Ekaterina Solomeina
Ekaterina shares her perspective on what separates talented creatives from true creative leaders, why many businesses still underestimate design, and how creatives can better communicate their value in language executive…
Small Joys And Big Adventures (August 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
Whether you’re enjoying some well-earned time off this August or are jumping headfirst into a new project, how about some new desktop wallpapers to accompany you on all those big and small adventures the month might brin…
The Bull And Bear Case For Digital Design In The Age Of AI
As AI reshapes product design, it could give designers greater autonomy or expose the gaps that autonomy makes harder to hide. Exploring both the bull and bear cases, Andy Budd examines what happens when designers need l…
Thinking Outside The Box: Digital Design In The AI Era
Many of the AI tools we interact with take the form of text boxes. But what if there was a different way to interact with AI? Oleksii Hrzhehorzhevskyi explores a different approach to creating a new AI assistant and how …
[Podcast] How to Price Creative Work (& Why Hourly Billing is Nuts!) with Jonathan Stark
Jacob and Jonathan explore the difference between fixed fees and true value pricing, how to run better sales conversations, why pricing is deeply connected to positioning, and how authority changes the way clients buy.
[Podcast] Brand Associations & Why Most Brands Are Forgotten with Ulli Appelbaum
In this conversation with Ulli, we unpack one of the most important and often misunderstood areas of branding: how associations are formed, strengthened, measured, and used to drive real business growth.
Book in brief — Trustworthy: How the Smartest Brands Beat Cynicism and Bridge the Trust Gap
Designers can empower people to make confident decisions. Empowerment goes beyond just basic functionality: we help people meet their needs and gain a sense of fulfillment and knowledge through their interactions with sc…
Designing Respectful Tech: What is your relationship with technology?
You’ve been there before. You thought you could trust someone with a secret. You thought it would be safe, but found out later that they blabbed to everyone. Or, maybe they didn’t share it, but the way they used it felt …
Introduction to Ontology Concepts and Modeling
What is ontology? An ontology is a formal system for modeling concepts and their relationships. Unlike relational database systems, which are essentially interconnected tables, ontologies put a premium on the relationshi…
Activating Change: A Designer’s Guide to Systems Thinking
This past year we became acutely aware of how interconnected we all are. The toilet paper shortage gave the world a glimpse at supply chains, and the pandemic as a whole was a crash course in how our healthcare system ca…
The Dream of a More Human Navigation Realized
Using the customer intentions method to humanize our virtual worlds In the 2010 Sci-Fi film Inception a professional thief is offered a chance at erasing his criminal history if he implants one person’s ideas into the su…