Photography, iconography, and typography are essential to help good interface design do its job well. It’s easy to take it for granted, but finding the right visual aid, with the appropriate usage rights is no small job. That’s a huge part of the value that any design team will bring to the table. Here’s our challenge: We design user interfaces for …Continue Reading ››

How We Supercharged Our User Testing Using Mechanical Turk, Google Forms and Usability Hub. When working with startups we are often treading new ground on new products and it is important to begin validating assumptions early and often. It also helps to have some data to back up our design decisions when presenting them to …Continue Reading ››

Tasked to design a brand new pricing table for one of our startups, we went on a hunt to educate ourselves a little bit about the better practices out there. Naturally, we didn’t find the magic formula to building the ideal pricing table. The choices have to work with your specific product or service. Constructing your pricing model, and …Continue Reading ››

  JUST LAUNCHED: AN INTERACTIVE PERSONA CREATOR Xtensio is a toolbox to help you organize your thoughts, make decisions and present ideas. Learn more about the Persona Creator and other free tools at  xtensio.com     One of the benefits of working with lots of different startups is that when we discover something that works really great …Continue Reading ››

While designing new UI comps for one of our clients, we were looking for stock images of popular travel destinations. The usual options are of course to buy stock images from libraries, or if there’s no budget for that, go to Creative Commons. Well, it turns out that Google recently added a new usage rights …Continue Reading ››