Halloween is the time of year when creativity comes alive. Homes, parks, and events transform into spooky wonderlands filled with ghosts, pumpkins, and cobwebs. But what if you want something more unique? Imagine mixing the dinosaur elements with the fright of Halloween. The result is a Haunted Jurassic Park theme that is both terrifying and [...] The post How to Create a Haunted Jurassic Park Theme for Halloween appeared first on MyDinosaurs.| MyDinosaurs
Design Operations is all about helping designers do the best work of their lives. Our job is to clear the path so designers can focus on what they do best: design. At many tech companies, you’ll find a more traditional embedded model—one Design Program Manager (DPM) per major product area. But in a lean team …| Slack Design
I recently graduated with an M.Sc. in Engineering, focusing on information and communication technologies. During my education, I have specialized in interaction design and usability, which is also what I did my masters’ thesis in. While drones and robotics are still quite new to me, my background in software makes me eager to dive in and learn. The first time I came across Bitcraze I was fascinated by the technology, community, and the way this company works, and I knew right away that I w...| Bitcraze
At the beginning of the year, we released the Crazyflie 2.1 Brushless charging dock. This project was very much an experiment for us since this is the first product we are mainly manufacturing and assembling by ourselves in Sweden. We though we would write a little bit about the reason we made it that way and how it is going.| Bitcraze
Schema markup is part of our GEO offerings. Learn how the Nexus team creates and implements structured data to increase your content’s search visibility.| Nexus Marketing
Brands need to present themselves intentionally through design. The look and feel of your website and your public-facing materials (like sales one-pagers, brochures, and more) create the very first impression that potential leads have of your business. Make it count! There are many ways to handle design — hire an in-house designer, contract a freelancer, […] The post The Nexus Approach: On-Demand Sales Enablement Content & Graphic Design appeared first on Nexus Marketing.| Nexus Marketing
Case studies are invaluable B2B marketing assets. By showing your brand’s work or products in action for real customers, they often go much further to help close deals than even the most effective sales pitches. However, consistently creating (or starting) your brand’s library of case studies, success stories, and portfolio entries requires time that you […] The post The Nexus Approach: Case Studies, Success Stories, & Portfolio Pages appeared first on Nexus Marketing.| Nexus Marketing
Shortform video clips are everywhere today, and they’re quickly taking off as powerful B2B branding and lead nurture tools. Our favorite strategy for producing shortform videos is to reuse the valuable video assets already at your disposal—namely, by recycling webinar and digital event footage into packages of easy-to-share clips. If you’re already putting in the […]| Nexus Marketing
As we reflect on a successful event at GDS for World Information Architecture Day, find out how information architects’ work to classify, structure and consistently manage content is supporting GOV.UK’s ambitions.| insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk
Essex County Council's Essex Digital Service| Essex Digital Service
We’ve improved how we work at GOV.UK by creating a new design resource for our teams. Here’s why and how we did it.| insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk
Learn more about our approach to designing GOV.UK’s experimental chatbot.| insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk
Learn how we’re addressing the risk of our experimental chatbot being manipulated to produce unintended or harmful responses.| Inside GOV.UK
We’ve been working with students to envision what GOV.UK could look like in years to come, helping them to develop career skills and allowing us to explore innovative approaches. Find out how the project went.| insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk
We’ve launched a new strategy for the GOV.UK Publishing Service. Learn how our plans will make it easier and quicker for us to publish content and help GOV.UK become multi-channel.| insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk
Grace Sunnell is a Lead Product Designer formally for Slack Connect and now evolving the experience of Slack AI. Jeff Robke is a Senior Product Manager focused on Slack Connect for Enterprise customers. Think of a time at work where things felt effortless. You felt like you could do anything, climb over any obstacle. Now, …| Slack Design
Charting the crit terrain Critique—or, to use its more casual truncation, “crit”— is one of the most powerful team-powered tools that can contribute to a designer’s growth. The merits of a forum in which a designer’s work is evaluated and discussed by their peers at length seem obvious, to say the least, but often, many …| Slack Design
I’ve spent the past five years at Slack building both the Slack brand and the Slack creative team. While I’m immensely proud of both accomplishments, the latter takes the cake. While it’s important to hire the right people, set clear expectations and develop seamless processes, we wouldn’t be one of the most collaborative and wonderful …| Slack Design
While Slack fields many requests, the creation of a feature to add people to a direct message was something our design team heard frequently. When we first started to roll up our sleeves and explore how to build this feature, it didn’t seem that difficult. After all, you could already add people to channels. It …| Slack Design
Hey friends! MJ and Sheila here to talk to you about Design Ops at Slack, our passion for the field, and the guiding principles we live by in our day-to-day work. For anyone not familiar with the Design Ops function, we hope this read gives you a glimpse into what we do, the teams we …| Slack Design
A huge international campaign. A compelling headline on a city billboard. A viral video. They all have one thing in common: they started with an idea. And it’s likely that the journey to come up with The Idea behind them all was filled with many moments of delight, frustration, and self-doubt. I know this because …| Slack Design
When you’re looking for an internship, there can be pressure to have all the right stuff—enrollment in a design program at a prestigious university, prior internship experience at big name companies, completed case studies of real world projects, and more. However, if everyone had these same things, it would be pretty boring and make the …| Slack Design
Fostering a sense of connection with your team is probably the hardest part of working remotely. When you work in an office together, you can walk by someone’s desk and give them a friendly “hello,” ask if they want to grab coffee later, and even share a joke with another colleague when you realize you …| Slack Design
Being immersed in Slack’s highly collaborative culture and an even closer-knit team, saying no to meetings used to be slightly terrifying. But when I realized my calendar wasn’t always working for me, I had to make some adjustments to my thinking and my RSVPs. Whatever’s at the heart of your own “meeting decline guilt”—the patriarchy, …| Slack Design
There are plenty of comprehensive pieces on the practice of product design out there—our own Kyle Turman has written an excellent post on the Pillars of Digital Product Design—but there’s a crucial layer of thinking that can sometimes elude the design process itself, partially because it’s so obvious that it’s hiding in plain sight. “Of …| Slack Design
Learn the five copy principles that help us write great Marketing copy in the Slack voice and tone. Part 1 in a series Words give meaning to your marketing materials: if the brand is the lifeblood of your business, words are the atomic structure that make up that lifeblood. When copy—that is, the …| Slack Design
A conversation between two Slack designers Nikki Nolan and Vivian Urata on why inclusive design should be the new normal. Audio version provided above. Nikki Nolan: I’m glad we’re having this conversation around inclusive design. To get started, I would love to know who you are and what got you interested in …| Slack Design
