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The Ultimate Guide to Becoming A Designer Without Going To Design School (Part 2)
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Service Design and UX Design: What’s the Difference?
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What are UX Designer Skills? The 12 Essentials
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Software Tools

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Sketch Tips To Maximize Your Productivity—Part 3: Composition, Light, and Shadow
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Sketch Tips To Maximize Your Productivity—Part 1: Getting Started In Sketch
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Changing Careers

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Is UX Design A Good Career Fit for Working Mothers?
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Am I Too Old To Switch Careers?
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Who Needs The New Year? Why Today Is Always The Best Time To Make A Change
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12 Days of UXmas: Day 12—Iterate, and take stock
Jan 2017
12 Days of UXmas: Day 5—Map Out Scenarios
Dec 2016
12 Days of UXmas: Day 6—Point of View Statements
Dec 2016

Design History

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How The Thanksgiving Covers Of These 3 Magazines Show 110 Years of Social Change
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Black, White, and Rainbows: A Brief History of LGBT+ Design
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Learning In The Bauhaus School: Five Lessons For Today’s Designers
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Designlab Updates

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Designing The Student-To-Mentor Feedback Process At Designlab
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Mentor Spotlight: Cassandra Cappello, Senior Product Designer
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UX Academy

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Introducing the Gray Cohort of UX Academy
Oct 2016
UX Design Group Crits: A Primer. Part 4: Great Expectations
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7 Things We Love About Susan Kare—Introducing the Kare Cohort
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Success Stories

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From Management to UX Designer at Backbase: Meet Celeste North
Sep 2016
Meet Kiruthika: From Graphic Designer in India to UI Designer at Tadaweb
Sep 2017
Meet Marko, the self-taught freelancer
Jul 2016

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Launching Sketch 101!
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UX Academy Journey

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Week 15: Art vs Design—and How to Develop that Design Eye
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Week 4: Newbie Design Student Tips From The Future
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Week 7: Kaboom! Atomic Design Methodology!
Apr 2018

Inspiration

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The Designlab Digest–July 2017
Jul 2017
Watch John Berger’s Amazing “Ways Of Seeing”
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The Gift Economy and What it Means for Designers
Jan 2017

Visual & UI Design

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11 Tips For Designing High-Converting Landing Pages
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UI Design Best Practices For Form Design (Part 2)
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Viewpoints

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Where will UX design be in 5 years? 5 Predictions
Apr 2017
Users As Ends In Themselves: 7 Heuristics For Humane Design
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Are Notifications A Dark Pattern?
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