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🛠 The Ultimate Design Sprint Guide 🛠

Created by the team at Google Ventures, the Design Sprint is a well-established product development framework designed to help teams swiftly learn, create and test solutions to complex problems.

This article will dive into this five-day design framework's details, providing essential insights, an overview of the best practices, and practical tips to help you successfully run a design sprint yourself.

The Design Sprint – What is it and How to Run One Effectively? | Pine Created by the team at Google Ventures, the Design Sprint is a well-established product development framework designed to help teams swiftly learn, create, test solutions to complex problems. This article will dive into the detail of this five-day design framework, providing essential insights, an o...

📱 The Design Insider 15 📱

Check out this weeks round-up of the latest news, informative articles and resources on all things design and tech.

The Design Insider 15: Spotify Re-Designs Apps, Slack Getting New Features & More | Pine Welcome back to the design insider, our weekly round-up of the latest news, informative articles and resources on all things design and tech.

⏪ Throwback Thursday: Are You Ready for Love? ⏪

😍 Match.com was the first online dating platform that achieved substantial commercial success in the internet age. Twenty-six years on, there are thousands of dating apps and websites to choose from that generated an astonishing $3 Billion revenue in 2020.

📚Book Resources for Designers 📚

We listened to your feedback, and we have now updated our previous list of book recommendations for design-thinkers out there. Our new, updated list features some of the most-read books in the space of design, business, and content creation. We would love to hear if you think something is missing from the list, or if you have read some of the ones mentioned.

57 Books Every Designer Should Have in Their Library | Pine Building on our last post on recommended books for designers, we look at 57 books that will help you become a more successful designer

✍️ Design Tips and Tricks 😏

You don't have to re-invent the wheel when it comes to displaying text. Bright colours make the readability of the text hard, so black and white are always the best pair.

⏪ Throwback Thursday - Symbolics.com ⏪

It's been almost 34 years since Massachusetts based software manufacturer, Symbolics, registered the first domain. Although the company no longer exists, the domain is still live.

Another day, another great client feedback. 🏆

If you want to stand out from the crowd, it is all about going "above and beyond".

✍️ Design Tips and Tricks 😏

Colours are nice and can add a lot to your design. But too much colour can be very distracting and even confusing to users, especially when it comes to navigation items. So our advice is to keep menu items limited to 2: a neutral state and an active state.

🙌 Wednesday Wisdom 🙌

There is much more than designing for mobile, tablet and desktop nowadays and you need to make sure that you cover as many screen sizes as possible if you want to offer a pixel perfect solution to every user.

 🤔 Sketches vs Wireframes vs Mockups vs Prototypes 🤔

These are all important deliverables; however, outside the design space, few understand precisely what each one is, the processes that go into their creation, and their role in the design process.

To clarify common misconceptions and get you up to speed, in this article, we’ll answer the what, why, how, and when of each.

Sketch vs Wireframe vs Mockup vs Prototype: A Complete Guide | Pine Sketches, wireframes, mockups and prototypes are essential deliverables; however, outside the UX space, few understand precisely what each one is, the processes that go into their creation, and their role in the design process. To clarify common misconceptions and get you up to speed, in this articl...