I share my thoughts on UX design, design systems, brand strategy, and my own experiences as a designer.
Designing with GDS for a government service. This blog outlines the benefits and challenges of working with the GDS design system and a few tips that helped me when working with the design system.
In this talk, I take you through the concept of design systems and the elements that come together to form them, and she gives us a practical step-by-step guide to creating a robust design system foundation.
Discover brand health essentials and learn how to measure the key metrics effectively.
Colour has a great impact in the world around us and this is no different in User Interfaces (UI). However, it’s not always given the importance it deserves. Sometimes colour is understood as a purely aesthetic element that is completely relative and subjective. Nonetheless, colour plays a key role (on multiple levels) in the user experience of a product, and therefore it is worth our attention as designers.
In this talk I take you through a hands-on approach to the creation of colour palettes for UI Design. The talk will outline topics such as colour terminology, colour theory, UI rules and conventions for the use of colour as well as other rules of thumb. Carmen will then apply these concepts to successfully create and apply a UI-focused colour palette to an app interface in a live demo.
A guide to designing better user interfaces for children.
There are many qualities that play a key role in becoming a good designer. These qualities are far from being only technical. A designer must be an innovator, a researcher, a communicator a connoisseur, a mediator, a problem solver and a business thinker. We must be multifaceted.
A brand is the perception people have of your business. It's what they think, feel, or say about your business. Planning and executing your brand elements from the beginning will help your business grow and thrive in the long term.
As designers, and more specifically, digital designers, remote working might not only be feasible but beneficial. Remote working is a growing trend and as a full time designer that works from home, I can see why.
