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Building Comprehensive Standards
Design teams under pressure to prove their value don't often have time to build proper standards. In startup environments, that pressure is never-ending. As a result, teams are left scrambling to establish concrete standards after they've already shipped inconsistent work, or the work goes through several pointless iterations when an established standard would've meant producing quality work. Documentation is the lifeblood of a high-functioning team. I have written comprehe
April French
Apr 13 min read
A Note on Continuous Learning
Today I started learning how to fry scream. I don't particularly have a reason for it - it's not for work. It isn't something that I can or should put on my resume. I just grew up being that one goth kid in class that searched for new music. What did I listen to that made me decide to learn this seriously challenging vocal technique? I watched a YouTube video of a vocalist named Maphra perform a cover of Doomed by Bring Me the Horizon. When I was in high school, I wanted to b
April French
Mar 292 min read
The Text You've Been Reading
At the beginning of April, I started this blog as part of my weekly assignments for Learning Experience Design: Advanced Tools and...
April French
May 29, 20231 min read


Understanding How Color Relationships Affect Accessibility
In the last three lessons, we learned about the color wheel, about luminosity, and about saturation. But, how do we connect it to...
April French
May 14, 20231 min read


Tones and Saturation
Previously, we learned how white and black affect colors. But, what would happen if we mixed the two, and used gray to alter colors?...
April French
May 14, 20231 min read


Luminosity
When it comes to color, all colors have associated tints and shades. Let's revisit the color wheel from our last lesson: In this color...
April French
May 9, 20231 min read


Understanding The Color Wheel
Color wheels are visual aids for artists to see primary, secondary, and tertiary colors at a glance. Primary Colors are the only colors...
April French
May 4, 20231 min read
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