Sourced from Creative Review, by Mark Sinclair.

Suffering from designer’s block? Well, The Designer Says might be the answer – it’s a small book packed full of musings from some of the industry’s finest…

By Kent Anderson.

I first met Michael Bierut as part of a major journal redesign project back in the early 2000s.

By Susan Weinschenk, Ph.D.

The user experience of websites has improved by leaps and bounds over the years, but I still run into sites that make me ask, “What were they thinking?!”

By Chris Noessel.

Whiteboards are cool, I guess. Fast, easy, familiar. But really, they’re nothing compared to digital sketching.

Sourced from CreativeBloq.

Which of the two design tools is better for which tasks? Jason Cianfrone of BaseCreative compares Photoshop and Illustrator to see which comes out on top.

By core jr

It seems like every day the editors at Core77 receive at least a dozen pleas from designers who have elected to get on the hamster wheel of crowdfunding.

By Rean John Uehara.

Right now web design is closely tied to SEO. Mind you, when I say web design, I do not simply mean designing with the use of Adobe Photoshop. I mean the whole deal, from conception to presentation.

Is SEO a good thing for web design? Do you think minding SEO too much limits what designers can do?

By Nathan Shubert-Harbison,

lthough icon fonts aren’t a new idea (remember Wingdings?), their use has seen a large resurgence lately. Up until @font-face support become widespread, the only way to use typefaces, other than the small handful of web-safe fonts, was to use an image or something nasty like Flash or cufon.

Sourced from youthedesigner.

Advertising on outdoor billboards needs to be exciting and innovative, and adding print design to an image can be one way for a company to make sure that it stands out from the rest.

By Ritch Macefield.

Working as a UX design and user-centered design (UCD) consultant across the world, it continues to surprise me that many software development organizations are still using what I call second- or third-generation prototyping tools and their associated techniques.