Evolution is important. That’s why we need to keep evolving. And with that in mind, let’s discuss how we’re evolving our brand style. — It’s been over 2 years since our brand here at Shortcut (formerly Clubhouse) had an overhaul by the creative agency Ueno, and to date, we still feel the project, as a whole, has been a huge success. It brought Shortcut up a level. It made us feel like a grown-up…

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.

We pride ourselves on aligning our values closely to the output of our work. Our design principles outline our core beliefs and we constantly refer back to our principles to make sure we‘re making the right decisions. — 1. We sweat the details. Design will ultimately decide if we succeed or fail as a business. As Charles and Ray Eames once said, “The details are not the details. They make the design.” This quote is remarkably accurate in the context of our competitive market.

Creating a logo is always such a tricky task for a design team. It can be so subjective, and trying to get out what’s in the stakeholders mind can seem impossible. Here’s how we went about it. — So let’s start at the top… Once upon a time, there was a company called Clubhouse. Clubhouse was a project management software that was great. People loved using it. Then, one day, another Clubhouse appeared. The other Clubhouse was a social audio app that was great too. People loved using…

Recently, there has been a big shift in designers turning their head towards working remotely, and rightly so. With so much benefits, I can understand why we are starting to lean towards wanting to work remotely. — For the last sixteen years, I’ve spent all of my work life as a full-time, in-house designer, heading to the office Monday through Friday. This was the norm up until recently when I started to notice more and more attractive remote design roles emerge.

Here’s a little exercise I gave myself to practice, to keep myself motivated and creative, as well as trying to put a smile on peoples face whilst in lockdown. — As a designer, it’s always important to keep yourself motivated, creative, and inspired. Unfortunately being locked in a house, for me anyway, has really put a pin on the opportunities to go out and get some inspiration. So I’m going to share with you a little project I gave myself…