Distributed teams - teams with 100% remote workers - are on the rise. Though how many times have you heard (or said) "I could never work remotely"? We're working remotely at UpLabs, and we've found that the real obstacle really is to unlearn the traditional 9-to-5 grind.

As designers, we can fiddle and explore design ideas, but without developers, our work would be visible only as bare pngs. That's why I think it's crucial for us, designers, to learn more about developer's workflow so we can be more efficient together.

Snapchat announced Spectacles, their first hardware product, last Friday evening. Despite being the first hardware effort from ourcurrent social darlings, Evan Spiegel and company seem to be playing down the product. In a Wall Street Journal feature on Snap, only a handful of paragraphs touch on Spectacles.

Thinking about color schemes for the UI of your current design project? Here are three aspects to consider as you design your next interface, along with examples of different applications in the wild. Readability "...most studies have shown that dark characters on a light background are superior to light characters on a dark background (when the refresh rate is fairly high).

I think many of us are not using SVG to its full potential. I often see SVG used as an alternative image format or as a simple solution for icons, and whilst it's great for these things, it's also a lot more than that. SVG can solve problems that HTML and CSS alone can't.