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I believe design is just good engineering. That’s why I tell my designers to always think like an engineer. So I set up really strict rules on how they are allowed to work. So for example, we’re only allowed to use six or eight colours in total, same with the typeface, we only write in lowercase with one font in a set of sizes that is in a system
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We produce and deliver work in a week-to-week, iterative cadence and meet with client teams on the same day every week throughout the duration of the rebrand. There is rarely, if ever, a moment when a client might think, “I wonder what Focus Lab is working on or when we are going to get it.” This has a huge impact on the general momentum, feel, and
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Landscape architects are increasingly embracing desire lines from the outset, allowing desire lines to emerge in parks and campuses over a period of many months, and then paving the lines to make permanent walkways. The approach is certainly preferable to the more common alternative: Attempt to predict how people will navigate a landscape, render
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Guidelines: In reality, the probability of development teams compromising the architecture is greatly reduced if they are given clear guidelines to adhere to.