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Designing for calm: why the best products feel quiet
Attention is the scarcest resource your users have. Here is how we design interfaces that respect it, and why calm products convert better.
Elena Vos
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CompanyDesignIntroducing Polaris, our first desk lamp
Two years, forty prototypes and one obsession with even light. The story behind the lamp that started our product line.
Elena Vos
DesignTechnologyDesign tokens that scale across brands
How a three-tier token architecture let one client run five brands from a single component library.
Elena Vos
DesignGuidesAccessibility is a feature, not a checklist
Accessible products are better products for everyone. How we build accessibility into every stage of a project.
Elena Vos
DesignWhat we learned from 100 user interviews
Patterns, surprises and practical lessons from a year of talking to the people who use our clients’ products.
Elena Vos