Take part in the 2016 Design Tools Survey
We’ve partnered with the amazing team at General Assembly, and created this survey to better understand the state of the industry and get a clearer picture of the tools that designers use to craft the digital products that the world uses.
Why a dedicated UX researcher makes all the difference
Design practices – studios and companies with design teams – often ask designers to take on many roles: coding, research, usability testing, wireframing, visual aesthetics, and more. Smaller practices and startups must be conscious of resources. Yet, dedicated researchers are critical for growing design organizations to evolve.
Icons to the moon & back: creating pixel perfect icons and converting to icon font
Icons are elements found in almost every place you can think of on the web and on mobile devices. A good designer needs to know how to create icons that are pixel-perfect, clear, sharp and uniform. In this post I’ll give some of my favorite tips and advice on how to create perfect icons.
Introducing the all new: Resources by Hacking UI
Resources is the place for you to find tools, icon sets, UI Kits, articles, and interesting online services – both free and premium, to help you be more productive and produce high quality results.
Where do you stand? The analysis of the 2016 Design Salary Survey
We finished analyzing the results of the Design Salary Survey and we found a ton of interesting data from the overwhelming 3,167 respondents. We hope this gives you a better understanding of the industry standards and how salaries differ between countries, job titles, experience levels and more.
Introducing: Icon54 – a set of more than 2100 icons for designers
We are super excited to finally share with you the following items that we’ve been working on for the past couple months! We’ve been working alongside the amazing Adoric team to bring you this set of over 2100 high quality vector icons that have been carefully crafted and split to all the relevant categories of user interface design. Go […]
The open sourced results to the 2016 Design Salary Survey
Hey all, Thank you so much to everyone who participated and provided their input. We had an astounding 3,135 responses! We’ve officially closed the survey and have all of the data now. As we mentioned before, we are sharing this data freely. So we hope you use it to build cool things, or just to […]
Introducing: The Design Conferences Slack Team
After the crazy success of our two meetups last year in NY and San Fran, we’ve been wracking our brains trying to think of ways to facilitate more in-person meetups and offline gatherings. Several sleepless nights later, we figured it out: a Slack group for all things related to design conferences. To make this group as effective […]
Take part in the 2016 Design Salary Survey
Hey all, We’ve partnered with the amazing team at Hired.com and created this survey to better understand the state of the industry and get a better picture of the employment situation for creatives. Once we have the survey results we will publish them on Hackingui.com with our complete breakdown and analysis. UPDATE (MAY 2016): The […]
A Martial Artist’s approach to the whole ‘should designers learn code?’ discussion
This Design Code argument/discussion is a dead horse to a lot of you out there, I know. But… I still get to be asked by other designers about this, both newbies and experienced. So I thought I’d write about this topic now. When people ask me about this -this is what I say. I’ve been […]
