Englund Design Works

Every product has moments where the user has to wait. A page loads, a search runs, a payment clears, a file uploads. […]

When dark mode became an expected feature rather than a novelty, a lot of teams reached for the fastest possible implementation: take […]

Most of the attention in product design goes to the moments of creation and discovery: the sign-up, the first success, the feature […]

Ask most people what a designer works with and they will say layout, color, and imagery. They rarely say words. Yet open […]

Most color decisions fall apart the moment a design leaves the comfort of a single mockup. A palette that looks confident on […]

Long before a viewer parses a sentence, they have already formed a judgment about the work based on its type. Typography is […]

Empty states are the screens a product shows when there is nothing to show: an inbox with no messages, a project with […]

Ask someone why a particular interface feels premium and they will often point to the color or the typeface. Ask a seasoned […]

Industrial design lives in the tension between what looks good and what can be manufactured at a price the market will bear. […]

When you look at a product you respect, you see the finished result of hundreds of decisions, but the decisions themselves are […]