Articles tagged "Design"

4 Skills Designers Need to Help Companies Succeed

Early on in Braden Kowitz's role as a design consultant for startups, he met with a founder in their "scrappy" office conference room. The founder said, "I care about great design and I want to have great design in my company.

How to Run a Design Studio in 90 Minutes or Less

At our recent team retreat in Colorado, I led Zapier through a quick brainstorming exercise known as a design studio. It's an organized method for harnessing massively parallel feedback from every team member in a way that can actually be absorbed.

Listen Before You Design: A Guide to User Testing Your Product by Feedly's Design Co-Founder

User experience designer Arthur Bodolec believes designers and entrepreneurs waste time when building products because they don’t seek user feedback early enough.

In the Age of Experience, Great Design is Your Business Plan

The age of features is over. Competing products, Aral Balkan argues, have feature parity today. It’s not features that differentiate products now, it’s the experience. That’s why the best designs are winning the most business.