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A Year in Review: Our Experience with a Four Day, 32 Hour Work Week

March 6, 2023

We're moving to a permanent 4 day work week 🎉

June 14, 2022
I have to confess that since March 1st of 2022, we’ve been running an experiment. Every week at Halftone we’ve been working 32 hours, not 40…Monday through Thursday… We’ve had every Friday off.

Animating Curved Paths, Wheels, and Arcs in Adobe XD

August 27, 2021

Faster Render Using the View Port

August 27, 2021

How to Clear System Storage on Mac

August 27, 2021
For when you're always running out of storage because "System" or "Other" is taking up half of your disk space.

How to Put Images in JSONs

February 17, 2021

Prototyping Websites With Both Horizontal and Vertical Scrolling

February 17, 2021
Multi-directional scroll techniques in Adobe XD

Figma to Webflow | Part 3 — Building the Landing Page

January 6, 2021

Reviewing Common Adobe XD Auto Animate Glitches

January 6, 2021

Figma to Webflow | Part 2 — Colors & Elements

December 11, 2020

Maze Design - Product Walkthrough & Review

December 11, 2020

Figma to Webflow | Part 1 — Typography

November 27, 2020

Masking Scroll Groups in Adobe XD

November 27, 2020

JSON for Android, Overlapping Masks, and Type in Bodymovin

November 23, 2020

How to Add 3D Models in Webflow

November 10, 2020

Fixing Keyframe Glitches in After Effects

November 10, 2020
How to fix the boomerang keyframe issue in After Effects

Creating Systems Out Of Goals

October 22, 2020

Working With Keyframes in Adobe After Effects 2020

October 8, 2020

Working with Layers, Assets, and Shapes in Adobe After Effects 2020

October 1, 2020

Better Process for Rendering and Exporting From After Effects

September 25, 2020
Lunch 'n Learn

Creating a New File in Adobe After Effects 2020

September 25, 2020

Where in the world? The History of the Google Maps Pin

September 25, 2020
Born in 2005 as a way to mark a point on the map without obscuring the location

How In-Browser Apps Are Changing Tech (For the Better)

September 25, 2020

Myths, Tips, and JSON Tricks

September 25, 2020
Get The Most Out Of Your UI Animations Using JSON

Speed Graph in After Effects

September 25, 2020
Digital Tricks

Using the Figma Community to your advantage

September 25, 2020
Design Resources

What was learned at Figma’s Config 2020

September 25, 2020

Visual Accessibility in Web Design

September 24, 2020

Adobe XD vs Figma: The Final Boss Battle

September 16, 2020
Which UXUI tool will be the champion?

Bridge the Gap with Illustrator's Blend Tool

September 16, 2020
Let it do the work for you.

Developing a Website with a Dev Site Platform

September 16, 2020
Digital Resource

JSON Exporting From After Effects

September 16, 2020
Digital Tricks

Jazz Up Your UI Using JSON Animations

September 16, 2020
The who, what, where, when, how of JSON animations

The Upside to Single User Files in Sketch and Abstract

September 16, 2020

Streaming Setup with OBS

September 16, 2020
Getting to know OBS

The End of the Game Console

September 16, 2020
How Xbox is Betting Big on Traditional Game Systems Becoming Extinct

UXPin Basic Comparisons

September 16, 2020
Lunch 'n Learn

CMS Related Posts in Webflow

September 14, 2020
Lunch 'n Learn

Custom Key Commands In After Effects

September 14, 2020

Compressing Images in Figma For Webflow

September 14, 2020
Digital Tricks

Figma Favicon & Browser Mockup

September 14, 2020
Digital Tricks

Our Top 5 Figma Plugins / Summer of 2020

September 14, 2020
Design Resources

Stay up to date by versioning components in Figma

September 14, 2020
Digital Tricks

Creating Custom Mobile Navigation In Webflow

September 11, 2020

The Pandemic’s Impact on Halftone and Our Industry

September 3, 2020
Pivoting our services to help our clients

5 Reasons For New Branding

September 1, 2020
How to know when it’s time to update your brand

Refreshing Your Brand

August 12, 2020
The right time to update the voice and visuals of your brand

Importance of Research Before, During, and After Designing

August 6, 2020

Start With Design

July 31, 2020
How we helped Bella Scena create a productivity platform focused on individuals

Mass renaming layers & components in Figma

July 22, 2020
Digital Tricks

A Short Guide to Inclusive Design Resources

July 14, 2020
Web For All

UX Design & Research Education in the Twin Cities & Beyond

July 14, 2020

Becoming Visually Accessible

June 29, 2020
The Nuances of Picking Accessible Color Combinations

Being Good vs Being Perfect

June 28, 2020
In order for human centered designs to work, you need humans to use the product.

Why Am I Here?

June 28, 2020
Creating Actionable and Measurable Metrics
With ❤️ from our small team located in the US (Minnesota, Illinois, California) and sometimes abroad
  • Product Strategy
  • U/X, User Experience
  • Interface Design
  • Design systems
  • Vector Animation