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Building a New Illustration Style for Shopify

Over at Shopify, the illustrators have been busy. We’ve been working hard to find a new visual voice for Shopify. (And of course when I say we I mean Ryan Coleman & Holly Schofield. Think I’m being humble or whatever? Ask a first time design manager…

Virginia Start in Shopify UX

An illustration with a pink background with map contours showing a paper aeroplane flying through three address-stamp shapes and leaving a dotted trail.

Designing address forms for everyone, everywhere

A 5-step guide to designing global addresses

Meg Robichaud in Shopify UX

You can’t just draw purple people and call it diversity

Meg Robichaud in Shopify UX

Empty States? More like You-Have-No-Idea-How-Much-Work-Goes-Into-Those States, amirite??

Tetsuro Takara in Shopify UX

Lessons from building mobile-friendly, accessible data tables

This is the fifth post in a series on accessibility from Shopify’s UX team. We’re publishing posts every two weeks. You can check out the introduction here.

José Torre in Shopify UX

Uplifting Shopify Polaris

The process of evolving a large scale design system

José Torre in Shopify UX

The author between the words “problem” and “solution”, entangled in a nest of lines trying to connect the words.

The design process is a lie

10 things people don’t tell you about designing products

Meg Robichaud in Shopify UX

Product Vs. Marketing Illustration

The language of illustration & how it is applied differently…

Kyle Peatt in Shopify UX

The system always kicks back

The effort required to build a design system is tiny compared to the…

Scott Vinkle in Shopify UX

An illustrated graphic showing a Polaroid camera printing an incorrect photograph of dog with whiskers, with a cat as the photo subject in the foreground, and a pile of printed Polaroid pictures to the side.

Considerations when writing alt text

Find out what alt text is, why it’s so important, and how to…

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Edward Ocampo-Gooding

Steven Michael Thomas

Kevin Finlayson

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Rachel Robertson

Jacinthe Ricard

Guillaume Granger

Jeremy Hanson-Finger

Keyfer Patrik Mathewson

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Monika Piotrowicz

Cynthia Savard Saucier

Alaine Mackenzie

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Richard Yang (@richard.ux)

Alexandra Hunter

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Tina Richardson

Izzie Colpitts-Campbell

Danny J. Williams

Jimena Martinez Gerhard

Francine Navarro

Graham F. Scott

Robert Mousseau

Berceste (Berjesty) Kozanoglu

Jen Nicole Taylor

Rya Gershcovich

Rya Gershcovich

Yesenia Perez-Cruz

Kazden Cattapan

Holly Schofield

Marijan Šnajdar

Paisley Laurenzio

Prabhashish Singh

Katie Del Angel

Anthony Menecola

Keren (Veisblatt) Toledano

Sharon Moorhouse

Alëna Iouguina

Cynthia Savard Saucier

Alison Harshbarger

Vihar Kothamasu

James Findlater

Michael Overmeyer