Moving into the New Year

Time has flown by this year and as we look forward to 2018, we wanted to say thank you for being part of our journey. We hope you'll join us for another year of collaboration and good, purposeful design!

This year we collaborated with other designers, formed new connections at

CanUX

 in Ottawa, discussed rapid prototyping with our friends at

Triangle UXPA

, and mentored some newcomers in the UX field. Here's to 2017!

In Our Community

This holiday season we are excited to contribute to 

Miel Design Studio's

 effort to eradicate Durham's large school lunch debt. In addition to being incredibly talented, the studio's Creative Director, Rebekah Miel, is passionate about pursing equity in the Durham community. If you're looking for a worthy cause to give to, this is a pretty good one!

A quick bit about the initiative:

"Food insecurity for children is a significant problem in Durham and in some cases a school lunch may be the only meal a student gets. Let's help pay down this debt before the holidays and ease the burden for children and families." 

Optical Effects in User Interfaces (for True Nerds) via Muzli by Slava Shestopalov. 

Sometimes design is more than meets the eye. Shestopalov explains how to properly utilize optical effects for better, cleaner designs. 

Our Writing

Don’t Train on a Treadmill

It’s not as convenient, but real environments give you better feedback

Way back in college when I first started going to the gym (largely because that was where the best-maintained piano on campus was — don’t ask me why), I was mystified by one specific behavior of my fellow gym-goers. I had my set routine — I’d get my gym clothes on, grab my mp3 player, drop a metronome into my pocket, and jog the half-mile or so from my dorm to the gym, which was waaaayyyy over on one side of campus. On my way, running along the well-maintained trails and wastefully expensive landscaping, I would pass at least a dozen people clad in obvious workout gear. I would pass them easily, not because my jog was super-fast, but because every one of them was walking.

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