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Principles for Design Principles
What rules should you keep in mind when creating design principles?
A round-up of design links shared in April
A collection of curated links for designers, UX professionals and design leaders.
Jordan Healy
8 May 2024
The unbeatable lightness of being... together at UX London
(with apologies to Milan Kundera!)
Chris Pearce
16 April 2024
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Some of the best free fonts
As a product designer I generally do my best to help people find and think about content, not fonts. My preference is for clear, practical typography that supports a product's visual identity and adds no friction between a person and their goal.
James Gilyead
10 April 2024
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UX London early-bird pricing ends soon
Get your ticket by March 14th, if you haven’t already.
Jeremy Keith
8 March 2024
Futures, features and fixes – Setting your product team up for success
Successful and sustainable digital products come from a blend of innovation and iteration. Yet most design teams and their digital product roadmaps are out of balance.
Chris How
26 July 2021
- Tiny Lesson
Designing a workshop for UX London
At Clearleft, we talk about researching in the open. We believe in being transparent about our work and processes. We love what we do and talking about how we work.
Luke Hay
29 February 2024
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The schedule for Patterns Day
Eight talks on design systems in one fun day.
Jeremy Keith
1 February 2024
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Improve your design leadership confidence with our new On Demand platform
Introducing our new On Demand platform offering exclusive access to a library of Leading Design talks
Rebecca Groves
1 February 2024
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Patterns Day and more
The Patterns Day conference, the workshop the day after, and an Indie Web Camp on the weekend.
Jeremy Keith
25 January 2024
Weighing up UX
A focus on user experience is good… “but if the cause be not good, the king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make.”
Jeremy Keith
8 June 2021
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Designing for Gen Z
Exploring the key principles and trends that define effective design for the most tech-savvy generation.
Michelle Winchester
28 November 2023
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So that was Leading Design London 2023
Leading Design curator and host Rebecca Groves reflects on the learnings and highlights from Leading Design 2023.
Rebecca Groves
13 November 2023
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Making the Patterns Day website
The joy of getting hands-on with HTML and CSS.
Jeremy Keith
10 October 2023
- Tiny Lesson
When planning a workshop start with the stops
Get more out of your workshops by giving the attendees a break.
Chris How
5 October 2023
5 themes from Leading Design Festival
In March 2021 we hosted the month-long Leading Design Festival. Themes started to emerge throughout the month. We have pulled out 5 of these themes to explore in more detail.
Rebecca Groves
21 May 2021
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Patterns Day is back!
The one-day event focused on design systems returns on Thursday, March 7th 2024.
Jeremy Keith
4 October 2023
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Service design breakfast club
The Service Design Breakfast Club is back! For the first time since the before-times, join us on October 5th 2023 in Brighton.
Richard Rutter
11 September 2023
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How UX has changed my approach to desk research
During a recent client project at Clearleft, I returned to my previous career specialisms: desk-based research and report writing. This is the story of how my UX experience changed my approach.
Sophie Count
17 August 2023
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Supporting your customer support staff with internal service design
Are your frontline staff wrestling with poorly designed digital tools held together with fragile processes?