Down from the hills of he came, holding two large tablets inscribed with the words of the unspoken truths for all designers to echo…. — 👀 Only share your work with relevant people — otherwise it’ll end up a shitshow of everyone giving their opinion. 🙋‍♀ Stop asking so many questions — but why? But why? But why? But why? Stop it. Just stop it. You’ll end up driving the rest of your team crazy…

Medium has become a great place to earn especially when a recession looms. All you have to do is read this article, very slowly! — Ok, so here we go. All this will take is you doing me a solid. Basically, Medium have a Writer Payment Feature, so the more time you spend reading this, and scrolling around and basically just moving the mouse, the more I’ll get paid. So let’s cut a deal. …

Ok, first off, they’re not secret, they’re generic. Also, maaaaan, writing this kind of article makes me feel old. Very old. I’m not old. Maybe I am old? Damn it. I’m old! How did that happen. …

A set of illustration of artists that have come and gone, but left a mark on the world forever. — I want to share a little project I worked on recently. As a designer, music is so important to me, it’s what I listen to all day as I work. It’s like the music is a part of my job. A few months ago, I got an itch. Generally these…

Ok, lets discuss branding. What it is, why it’s important, and how you can go about creating something that is going to be beneficial to your company. What is a brand? Let’s ask the most obvious question to kick this whole thing off. What exactly is a brand? So, this article is not going to be a step by step guide to creating your first brand identity. It’s not going to be a join the dots tutorial on how to create…

At Shortcut, we love writing great content, and who doesn’t love reading great content. Well, alongside the great content, we also create great illustrations too! — We here at Shortcut love our users but we also love getting more and more new users too. So, here’s our hypothesis. We write great content for our great Shortcut Blog, readers read the great content, learn about how great our product is and sign up to our great product…

We bring the flow to your software team’s workflow. We also bring illustrations to our brand identity. Here is the story of our illustrative style — The Challenge With an ever growing competitive landscape, we here at shortcut.com were challenged with creating a unique, illustrative brand style that helped separate us from the rest, as well as telling a unique, clear story of why Shortcut is so special.

A design team needs a place to call home. A place where they can share their innermost thoughts. Here at Shortcut we felt it was time to build our fort and here’s how and why we did it. — The goal was to create a site specifically for our design team, to share our views, opinions, values, our guidelines. A place for us to shout about ourselves, to tell others (and remind ourselves) what’s important to us, and why it’s important. …

Who is Dot I hear you ask? Well, Dot is the loveable little mascot of Shortcut, the Project Management tool everyone loves to love. Today, we’re going behind the scenes to learn more about our squishy little ball of love. — This is Dot. Be like Dot. So, let’s get started. Who is Dot? Well, Dot is Dot. Dot’s job is to be as much like Dot as possible. Part courageous guide, part indispensable teammate, Dot knows the way toward harmonious, productive work.