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Traditional brand guidelines only take you so far. Learn how we helped "arm the rebels" on Upwork's design team by creating an actionable set of guidelines.

These are the ten areas we recommend founding teams invest their time and money to get their product to market in today's challenging economy.

MetaLab has worked with many health companies over the years. We've seen some great, and some not so great. Most of the time, the difference comes down to how human the interaction feels. Which is why we've shaped 5 guiding principles to make our health products more human.

Modular is changing AI as we know it by reinventing and rebuilding it from the ground up. They called us to help them establish a brand identity that connects to the human side of the technology. Here's where we landed.

Wanting to create category-defining work? Forget the double diamond. We have a new model for you to try.

We'll be the first to say we only do product but does brand have a role in product? We answer that, and more, in our latest Ask MetaLab Anything.

A quick peek at our project with Section to design Traffic Monitor, including three big lessons we learned along the way.

Icon connoisseur, Noah, explains the fundamentals of icon design and how they can elevate any product.

We interviewed the former Stitch Fix COO on why e-commerce is broken and how she plans to fix it.

Some tips on how we've made remote work, work for over a decade.

Forget budgets and milestones. It was just us, the Pitch team, and a whole bunch of unconventional ideas. Read on to find out what happened next.

Our highlight reel from 2019 is a little realer than the rest. Here’s what we learned about ourselves, our business, and doing better for our team.

We built the world’s first notarization platform. Our Director of Engineering reveals the lessons we learned along the way.

How “human” is human-centered design? We open up about vulnerability, mental health, and embracing the messiness.

We helped Pitch give presentation tools a modern makeover. Here's what we learned about Figma in the process.

In this edition of Ask MetaLab Anything, we chat about culture, how we make it work remotely, and why we take our "no assholes" policy so seriously.

What we learned from designing in three dimensions for the first time.

In the second edition of our Ask MetaLab Anything, we share how our design and development teams work together.

We make interfaces for some of the world’s top companies. But we don’t all do it from the same office. Here’s how our distributed teams work together, apart.

For our first edition of Ask MetaLab Anything we connect the dots between research and design.

Think remote work is less than ideal? Here’s why you’re right (and so, so wrong).

Life is way too short to miss out on the moments that matter. Here's how our MetaParents (I know, I know) make it all work.

We’re pulling back the curtain and fielding all your questions about product design. Read on to learn how to get yours answered.

What’s a developer to do with little time and lots of features? See how we shipped a top-rated app by practicing less is more.

Research is our not-so-secret sauce to shipping great products. Here's everything you want to know about our research process.

We recently gathered our team from around the globe for a company retreat. Here’s how we made Summit ‘18 our best one yet.

If you're looking for a career in the wonderful world of product design, we have 5 tips for you. Let's get started!

We built a blog, our blog— from scratch. Here's why we did it and what we learned along the way.