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FEATURED ARTICLES
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What Does AI Actually Take from Designers?
Less Than You Think.
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The most common question every designer is asking right now is whether
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AI will replace them. I think that fear is rooted in a misunderstanding that
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has followed design for years: the idea that design is a tool-based skill. It
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never was. Design has always been about creative thinking, problem-solving, and empath... Read more
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Understanding Consumer Decision-Making:
A Planned Five-Part Series
Part 1: People Decide Before They Read
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Value judgment begins before information is processed. This article is the first in a planned five-part series exploring how consumers make rapid judgments, perceive value, and move toward choice... Read more
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THE TRUE FACE OF DESIGN
It was there from the beginning, even if no one noticed. It manifested itself in different ways: shaping thoughts, evoking emotions, and quietly accompanying human life.
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Design grew with every stage of society, learning, evolving, and expanding until it became one of the great pillars of the modern world... Read more
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The Designer Who Wears Multiple Hats Will Win in the AI Era
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A perspective on how multidisciplinary designers are uniquely positioned to survive and thrive in the AI era, and why adaptability, creative direction, and cross-disciplinary thinking are becoming more valuable than specialization alone.. Read more
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The Hidden Cost of Generic Branding in Emerging Markets
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Walk through any major business district in Lagos, Nairobi, or Accra, and you'll notice something unsettling: a quiet epidemic of sameness. Tech startups with geometric, sans-serif wordmarks. Finance companies in navy and gold. Healthcare brands dressed in mint green and rounded corners. From a distance, you'd be forgiven for thinking you'd stumbled into a San Francisco pitch deck... Read more
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Pretty Doesn't Fix Broken
By a UX Design Student Who's Tired of Watching It Happen
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Let me tell you what nobody warned me about before I enrolled in a UX
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program. You spend months learning how to conduct user research; you study interview techniques, affinity mapping, journey mapping, and usability testing methods. You build mental models and personas from real data you know. You start to believe, genuinely believe that this is how things work... Read more
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CDN NEWS
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We are moving ahead with our 2026–2027 priorities, which will be shared in early September.
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• Our website refresh is underway. Take a look and let us know what you think.
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• CDN Membership is now available, and we welcome applications.
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• Ask a Designer is now active, offering professional advice and support for design projects.
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• Our Instagram presence is being developed and should launch later this month.
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• The CDN community continues to grow and now stands at 9,058 followers.
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• We will be releasing our first FIELD NOTE early September
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