It is such an exciting time to be a designer. Our work has never been more meaningful and the products we create more impactful.
The Creative Process is at the root of everything we do at Phase. It's what had brought us all together in the first place. We've experienced the power of creativity first hand - and wanted to let fellow designers spend more time being creative too.
Phase Magazine is here for designers to express ourselves. Let's cut through the noise to create design content that matters. Content that can actually have a real, meaningful impact on our fellow designers.
We’re kicking off a new category on Phase Magazine called Design Leaders. It’s a series of interviews with the world’s most impactful designers, entrepreneurs, and design executives who are making a difference with the design. Today we’re having a chat with Jason Shellen.
Some time has passed since we announced Phase in February. A lot has happened since then. More than 18K creatives have signed up to get early access 1.5K have joined our Slack Community, and the Phase team has grown to 11 people!
I've always loved having a real impact on the things I’ve worked on. As I studied architecture, I learned that pure beauty is a sum of form, function, and construction.
Everyone talks about user-centric design these days... But how do we make user-centric methodology part of our design workflow and culture? How can we fully tap that potential in the products and services we create?
In Phase Magazine’s Design Ecosystems series, we discover the world’s design ecosystems. In conversations with local community leaders and designers, we explore their perspectives on the Creative Process, digital design, and more.
In this edition of the Design Leaders series, we dig into the design workflow of Jason Coudriet. He manages a talented team of designers and content strategists, primarily focused on reimagining a part of investor experience at T. Rowe Price.
Some of you might be working on design teams with at least a few peers. Or maybe you’re a freelancer working with a few companies at the same time. But among us, there are also those of us who are the only Designers in their company. How do you handle that?
In January 2017 my associate and I closed our design company because our paths were becoming more and more distant. Following this event, I seriously started to question my design practice. I had many doubts before, but the daily tasks of running a company had kept me tied-in, without much time to think.
Fabulous is the brainchild of Sami, CEO and one of the company’s 3 co-founders. Growing up, he loved the stories of “The Little Prince” and “The Alchemist.” Both of these stories shared a common theme that struck Sami – everyone’s journey should lead with the heart. It allows you to discover yourself fully.
There are many different methodologies that help designers be more productive and efficient. One of the most popular frameworks that's heavily focused on teamwork and collaboration with the client is the Design Sprint. It was developed by Jake Knapp and covered in his best-selling book Sprint.
Here's something unique about Phase – we are quite a small team of 11 people based in two different, but equally amazing, cities. Phase design and engineering are based in Taipei, Taiwan while our community team including myself run a small team in Berlin.
Forms are one of the most important components of any Digital Design. Designing a Form seems straightforward and easy, but it takes some time and science to master it. Among various factors of effective form design, today we’ll discuss how to align labels with respect to their input fields.
Singapore is a strange place. Let's face it, this is one of the richest cities/countries on the Earth, and it is surrounded by countries which are less developed. The mentality, the culture and the way of living are like nowhere else. It makes it an interesting place but a bit auto-centered.
There is no doubt that the industry’s mindset towards design is shifting. Organizations are now on the hunt to hire the ultimate renaissance person - a unicorn designer if you will.
Meet Darshan Gajara, creator of Product Disrupt – a list of resources that made him a Product Designer. We talked with Darshan about different ways people can get into product design and how to keep getting fresh knowledge and inspiration.
Getting in sync is part of almost every conversation I have as a Product Designer, no matter how small or large. With product managers, developers — even the CEO. Ranging from topics such as why a button is put in a particular place through to discussing how we might validate a feature that presents risk and may or may not add substantial value to the customer and the business.
In our series Design Ecosystems, we have already visited Africa, Europe, and Asia. In this article, we are going to cover probably the most famous city in North America – New York City.
Web browsers are due for a breakthrough. We’ve been waiting for one, since the introduction of Chrome. So, what’s next? What can make web surfing more fun and efficient?
We are living in times that are full of distractions and meaningless interactions provided to us by something that supposed to be useful – technology. But once we have the right approach to it, we can get a lot out of it without getting too attached to our devices.
When smartphones took off after the iPhone was introduced, we didn't yet know how much of an impact they would come to have on our lives.
Today, we continue to explore design communities around the world. This time in the Design Ecosystems series we are taking a look at London, one of the largest design hubs in Europe.
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