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As the title implies, information designers quite often have to, well, design information. But when you’re beginning, it can difficult to choose which way you’re going to go about doing it. Knowing which charts and diagrams work with what information can help to fix this problem. When choosing, your chart, you first have to thinkContinue reading “Understanding what Graph/ Chart will Work Best for your Data, & why Choosing the Wrong Type can be Bad.”

There is no denying that designing information is incredibly important and full and responsibility. A lot of the time it can feel very overwhelming to try to communicate the issues of the world truthful, non-biased way. The remedy for this? Information design is just for laughs more than anything else. For example, look at thisContinue reading “Some Silly Infographics for When You Need Something less Serious.”

Like any portfolio, a UX portfolio can be a great way to showcase your design work. But it’s difficult to know where to begin, and how to go about making a portfolio. Knowing the proper tools to create a UX design portfolio, having good inspiration for your portfolio, and of course, knowing how to useContinue reading “How to Make a UX Portfolio; The Tools, Inspiration & Skills Required.”

We can all appreciate it when a design has a great colour palette. However, actually creating a colour palette can prove to be difficult. This is why I have included a couple palette inspiration sources in this article, as well as a way to name your colour palettes more effectively. Sometimes, the best place toContinue reading “Colour Palette Inspiration; Pre-made Palettes, Colour Palette Generators, and how to Name Your Colours Semantically.”

Social media has become more ingrained in most people’s lifestyles than ever before. This means, however, that design and social media have become incredibly important to each other. So it is important to know how to build a community on social media platforms. Each social media platform comes with specific caveats, such as post length.Continue reading “How to Curate Your Social Media; How Much to Write, How to Curate for Different Social Media Platforms and Tips and Tricks on What to Post.”

Pie is a delicious dessert, but sometimes it can be confusing in chart form. So how do we make pie charts work for us? In order to do this, we need to know what makes them understandable. Some pie charts can be incredibly overwhelming and confusing, like this one. There are some general pie-chart conventionsContinue reading “Pie Charts: Confusing and overwhelming, unless you know how to follow their basic conventions, as well as the design tips that will improve them.”

We remember things that have an emotional effect on us. But how can we use this to make design better? It is important to understand the importance of emotional design. As a designer, it is very useful to know how to grasp and encourage emotional connections between users and a product. Plutchick’s wheel of designContinue reading “Understand the emotional connection between users and a product, Plutchick’s wheel of design and how to tap into the reflective level of design”

We love seeing things that are visually appealing. But how do designers know what that their design will be visually appealing AND readable? One of the most important steps is choosing the right typeface. The main difference between a font vs typeface is the fact that font exists as a part of a typeface. TypefacesContinue reading “The difference between a font and a typeface, how to choose the right typeface, and which fonts you should NEVER use in your design.”

Humans are generally the target for most designs. However, as people are complex, they can be difficult to design for. This is why designers should look into the user-centred design.  When it comes to user experience, there are 7 influential factors. A design should be Useful, Usable, Findable, Credible, Desirable, Accessible, and Valuable. There areContinue reading “User-centred design, experience, and why we should design for the future but keep it useful in the present.”

Information is better when it can be easily understood. However, it can be difficult to present data in a way that is both informative and easy to read. Infographics help combat this problem. An infographic is a visual representation of any kind of information or data. There are 4 steps to making useful, relevant infographicContinue reading “Infographics; what they are, how to create them, and some great examples to look at before you get started.”