Carrie Cousins

Carrie Cousins is a freelance writer with more than 10 years of experience in the communications industry, including writing for print and online publications, and design and editing. You can connect with Carrie on Twitter @carriecousins.

What’s New For Designers, April 2019

We’re all about learning tools this month in our round of up new resources and tools for designers. From games to books…

3 Essential Design Trends, April 2019

Sometimes design trends take a little while to emerge and sneak up on you, others seem to pop out of the blue all at…

What’s New For Designers, March 2019

This month we are all about tools that make life easier. And that’s exactly what you’ll find in this roundup of new…

3 Essential Design Trends, March 2019

Typography, color and distinct layouts are all elements that contribute to any design project. They are also elements…

What’s New for Designers, February 2019

Get ready to create a new list of bookmarks! The new tools featured this month are perfect for saving; some of them…

3 Essential Design Trends, February 2019

This month, we are looking and some rather obvious visual trends in web design. While some trends are rooted more in…

What’s New for Designers, January 2019

New year, new design tools. As your start regrouping and reorganizing in 2019, why not make good on those resolutions…

3 Essential Design Trends, January 2019

New year, new design trends! While everyone is talking about big-picture trends such as designing for voice and…

10 Ways to Avoid Designer Burnout in 2019

It’s going to happen at some point this year; you will face designer burnout. One of the reasons that burnout is so…

What’s New for Designers, December 2018

Happy holidays! This collection of new tools and resources is our gift to you this season. And there are plenty of…

3 Essential Design Trends, December 2018

It can be hard to think about, and take on new design projects at this time of year. Maybe a little design inspiration…

What’s New for Designers, November 2018

Designers and developers are hard at work creating tons of new goodies to make work life easier. This month’s roundup…

10 Tips for Building a Visual Language

A visual language is just like any other form of communication. Where “language” refers to spoken or written…

3 Essential Design Trends, November 2018

When looking at good design, I often look for things that aren’t totally obvious. There’s an instinct that you like…

What’s New for Designers, October 2018

You might notice a theme this month in our collection of new tools for designers: color. There are lots of color…

3 Essential Design Trends, October 2018

This month’s trends have something in common: You’ve probably seen all of these ideas before, maybe just presented in a…

Loving & Hating the Hamburger Icon

I love the hamburger menu. I hate the hamburger menu. I am constantly contradicting myself about this tiny website…

What’s New for Designers, September 2018

This month’s collection of new tools and elements for designers has a common theme – productivity. There are so many…