Margaret Andersen

Margaret is a hybrid graphic designer/journalist based in Los Angeles. She covers design, technology, and accessibility and has written for a variety of print and digital publications including WIRED, Bitch Media, Gusher Magazine, Communication Arts, and AIGA's Eye on Design. She is also co-founder of TouchBot, a pleasure products brand that makes accessible toys and tools for diverse bodies and abilities.

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Articles by Margaret Andersen

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The queen of the teen skincare scene builds brand worlds, not identities

For a glimpse into where immersive, multi-channel brand design is headed, step into the Schott universe.

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The biggest web design trends of 2022

Featuring 50 stellar design projects from Pentagram, Buck, Collins, &Walsh, and more: this is the design report you don't want to miss.

A collage of images from the Nike move to zero campaign, and Wildish & Co.'s branding for web3 company Metaphor.

Cutout collages are making an online comeback

The analog feel of hand-assembled and photocopied 'zines are being revived in the current ‘90s and Y2K aesthetic reboot. (Thanks, TikTok.)

A screenshot of the level design in the video game Stray. It depicts a dark, narrow street lit up by a few neon signs, and a cat on the ground in front of them.

Level designers build virtual worlds. What does it take to be one?

UX lessons from the unsung heroes of gaming.

Everyone is copying Netflix's UI. But Hulu might be the next big innovator

Plus, what web designers can learn from the streaming wars.

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Can AI actually replace digital designers?

Not in the near future, anyway, according to these designers.

A screenshot of the West Coast Tasmania website homepage.

Designers are luring tourists to new hotspots. Here's how

Now boarding: design advice from agencies behind the web presences of destinations like California, Tasmania, and Iceland.

Images courtesy Softer and Somewhere Good. A portrait of the Softer and Somewhere Good founders and members, respectively.

The small group of creatives with big ambition: designing a kinder digital future

How a crop of new platforms are rewriting the narrative that tech must always be hard, fast, and optimized.

Four title card stills from the show Killing Eve, which read "Paris," "Tuscany," and "Vienna".

'Girls' premiered 10 years ago. Here's how the TV title card has changed since

Title card design has evolved to be more environmental and immersive since Girls. Thanks to streaming, it's still just as succinct.

Three mobile phones and multi-colored bubbles set over a 3d grid receding in space. Each phone shows a Letterboxd interface.

Is Letterboxd's UI changing the way we review movies?

Letterboxd's UI has shifted movie reviews from lengthy film critic think pieces to bite-sized takes designed to be shared.

Gather interface depicting 8-bit style avatars in a virtual space resembling a school hallway, and three people video conferencing in small squares.

Gather's UI looks a lot like GameBoy. It's one of the best visions for the Metaverse we've seen

Virtual platform Gather's vision of the metaverse is approachable and nostalgic. It already has a $700 million valuation.

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How this Webby Award-winning teen built a website to help Ukrainian refugees in three days

Efficient design decisions brought the site, by Avi Schiffmann and Marco Burstein, to life fast. It already has over 1 million active users.

An illustration showing a metallic red and fuschia pink blob floating between to mobile phones, each of which have a heart on the screen.

The "Love is Blind" dating approach is coming for your apps

A slew of dating apps are testing a new UI that emphasizes compatible personalities over photos—even Tinder. But will they catch on?

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How Wordle's genius game design helped it go viral

Game design psychology keeps Wordle players coming back for more, according to a UX and cognitive psychology expert.

An illustration showing black and white QR codes on one side, and a Gaussian blur in green and hot pink on the right-hand side.

Inside the QR code creative boom

QR code usage has dramatically increased since the pandemic. Now, designers are giving them new creative purpose.

An illustration with cryptocurrency and computer chip motifs in cobalt blue on a black background, surrounding a Beeple artwork called "Blue Valentine."

These digital creators are making the case for clean NFTs. Can they go mainstream?

How digital art is a culprit of crypto’s climate problem—and what designers are doing about it.

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The 10 biggest design trends of 2021

From visual nostalgia to expressive type, we break down the top trends of the year.

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