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Tutorial: Creating 3D typography with Adobe Dimension

You may have been browsing some of your favorite designers or artists on Instagram or Twitter, or perhaps you jumped online to find some inspiration and noticed a new trend in the design world: 3D text.

by Tobias van Schneider

The Kawaiization of product design

Over the last year or two, I’ve noticed a certain style emerge in brand and product design.

by Tobias van Schneider

The secret to designing great products

Every time I build a new product we work on the hard parts first: The technology, the basic functionality, making sure it all works without errors. We usually postpone any detail work for later. It simply isn't a priority at that point.

by Man-Ping Wu

The phenomenon behind great products and their fierce fanbases

I’ve always been a devoted fan of brands like Nike, Nintendo and Disney. It’s an ice breaker that never fails when you meet someone who also happens to be a fan. I used this as a social survival mechanism long before I thought about it as a concept. Then I learned about fandom.

by Jon Vio

Your first 3D design tutorial with Adobe Dimension

For many creative folks, 3D design is still considered a final frontier. In our minds, it's a landscape marked with steep learning curves, expensive software and overwhelming interfaces. Little known to most of us, Adobe has been quietly changing that story.

by Tobias van Schneider

My Jump from iPhone to Android: An Unsponsored Pixel2 Review

First of all, this article is NOT sponsored by Google. But if anyone from Google is reading this and wants to send me the Pixel XL, please do, because I’d love to test that phone as well.

by Lizzy Spano

Missed connection – we met on a street corner

Date of connection: July 7, 2016 - Lower East Side

by Tobias van Schneider

My Favorite Type Foundries to Find Typefaces

One of the questions I hear the most is “What are your favorite typefaces?”

by Tobias van Schneider

The Product Midlife Crisis

In the product world we often like to talk about something called product market fit (PMF). Product market fit usually stands at the very beginning and is considered the most important thing when building a new product. It's an abstract definition of course. Simply put it means that