I continually face the challenge of designing and building registration / sign-up pages on a wide variety of different web sites and mobile applications. Design Challenge In this particular web site, we needed to get the user's email (and password). At first it seems like this should be pretty easy to design - think again. MORE >>

Design Staff. Hiring a designer: hunting the unicorn. Braden Kowitz / Design Partner, Google Ventures. Finding the perfect designer to join your team is tough — there’s no way around it. I’ve struggled for months searching for the right designer. The field of UX design is still young. MORE >>

Design Staff. How designers and engineers can play nice (and still run with scissors). As a designer at engineering-centric companies for the last 10 years or so, I spend a lot of time working with engineers. There are a few consistent patterns of bad designer behavior that undermine our reputation with engineers. Tweet. MORE >>

Startups are often struck by the Curse of Knowledge, specifically when it comes to product design and development. It becomes so easy to design products based on our own expertise (in those very products) and ignore the fact that we’ve stopped designing with our customer top of mind. Yup, you have the Curse of Knowledge. MORE >>

In this post, we’ll discuss five designs that startups and small businesses should crowdsource to further level the playing field with their better financed and larger competitors. There are literally dozens of different types of designs that can be crowdsourced. Logo design projects on crowdSPRING start at $200. MORE >>