Dive Design

Improving the UX of our advertising page

We took a step back from our advertising page and evaluated the UX based on the goals and desired messages.

By Natalie Forman • Sep 19, 2018

From sketch to vector, my illustration process

Five steps I take to create an illustration.

By Yujin Kim • Aug 20, 2018

Highlights from An Event Apart

Takeaways from the event on topics ranging from new CSS standards to defining metrics on site success.

By Natalie Forman • Aug 7, 2018

How to land a great design job

Five steps to help you standout in the design job application process.

By Ryan McKnight • Jun 8, 2018

New year, new Dive

A comprehensive breakdown of the Industry Dive branding redesign.

By Kendall Davis and Elizabeth Regan • May 9, 2018

Attending the Generate Conference

Our front-end designers traveled to NYC to attend the Generate Conference. Three concepts stood out to them and provided insight into our team's operations.

By Jordan Branch, Nan Copeland, and Natalie Forman • May 4, 2018

CSS Grid for editorial design

CSS Grid is becoming increasingly used in product development, but it can also be used for outlining narratives.

By Jordan Branch • Apr 29, 2018

Bringing music legends to the conference rooms in our office

A look at my process of designing vinyl wall decals for our office.

By Elizabeth Regan • Apr 15, 2018

Flex grid menu

Making Industry Dive's menu more dynamic with the flex grid

By Nan Copeland • Mar 29, 2018

Retemplating our newsletters

We converted our newsletters to a fluid-hybrid template so as to decrease file size and support all email clients.

By Natalie Forman • Mar 15, 2018

Dive Awards 2017

In 2017, we revamped the Dive Awards brand and our editorial strategy.

By Jordan Branch • Mar 8, 2018

Creating the Industry Dive Support page

Using JIRA ticket collectors to streamline internal requests

By Nan Copeland • Feb 26, 2018

Auditing our CMS and creating user flow diagrams

The second step in gathering CMS UX data. We created detailed user flow diagrams and audited our entire system.

By Natalie Forman • Jan 4, 2018

Redesigning our branded content landing page in phases

How design is working with the dev team to making progressive enhancements to the site's library page

By Nan Copeland • Dec 20, 2017

Starting a redesign, how we analyzed our UX interviews

How we aggregated and analyzed the data from our content management system redesign interviews.

By Natalie Forman • Dec 4, 2017

Working with corporate vs. playful illustration styles

By Elizabeth Regan • Oct 6, 2017

Approaching Page Performance

An introduction to how I assessed our publication site render time and approached improving it.

By Natalie Forman • Sep 3, 2017

Creating downloadable PDFs using the .print window

How to create and style a PDF using the browser print window that anyone familiar with code can use

By Nan Copeland • Jul 15, 2017

Restructuring our Sass into more maintainable parts

After our new publication sites were live, the team re-evaluated its Sass architecture and decided to break it up into more maintainable parts.

By Jordan Branch • Dec 3, 2016

Re-examining web accessibility at Industry Dive to improve the user's experience

When redesigning Industry Dive’s publication sites, we reassessed our use of accessibility best practices.

By Jordan Branch • Oct 10, 2016

Improving UI/UX and accessibility on Data Dive

How I went about designing our data aggregation tool to optimize the internal user's experience.

By Natalie Forman • Aug 10, 2016

Redesigning our Email Blasts

Systematically approaching the redesign of our email blasts from concept to execution.

By Natalie Forman • Jun 16, 2016

Stop Thinking About Tools

I'm a designer. Do I need to learn to code?

By Ryan McKnight • Feb 24, 2016