Carrie Cousins

A tribute to my best girl We always joked that “it was hard to be Ellie.” She was scared of everything, cautious to a fault, crazy intuitive, and she loved with every ounce of her soul. She loved so damn hard. Ellie knew she was supposed to be here.…

Microinteractions aren’t a new concept in UX design, but they keep getting more impressive. We’ve been talking about microinteractions here at Design Shack for a while because they are so vital to the overall success of web…

A website or app featuring dark mode might have a black background, but this design feature alone isn’t enough to constitute this interface. There’s a big difference in designs that use dark mode in a way that’s visually appealing and highly usable,…

The hourly rate. It’s the go-to billing plan for many freelancers, and it needs to stop. Hourly billing doesn’t incentivize you to work efficiently or charge clients what a project is truly worth. This is especially true as you gain more experience…

Marion Childress doesn’t want to talk about things like having run all seven Blue Ridge marathons, about being north of cancer, or about a nationally distributed video about him coming this fall. No, he wants to talk about how your running is…

When you examine the most successful interaction designs of recent years, the clear winners are those who execute fundamentals flawlessly, like Gmail’s autosave function and Uber’s credit card entry form. They feed off natural human behavior, then…