Design systems as a field have matured over the past few years. Now you can find hundreds of examples of them, as well as fantastic resources, communities & new tools. I have been working as Design System Lead at Ruter for a few years now, and I’m proud of how our design system has become a truly collaborative cross team effort. I thought it was about time that I shared a few tips, tools and essentials to help others getting started.
The European Design Awards, also known as the ED-Awards, celebrate European designers for the best work in the field of communication design.
Visuelt is an annual competition in visual communication, highlights the best of work in graphic design, illustration, digital design and moving image and aims to inspire new thinking and high professional standards.
Every year, DOGA Norway honours the best design and architecture in Norway. Our team at Ruter were totally thrilled to receive this years award. Together with Bakken & Bæck and NoA Ignite, we’ve have been working on a new digital visual universe and a completely new mobility app designed to help millions of travellers on a daily basis.
Illustration has helped me through the pandemic. I love working in procreate on my iPad in the evenings. You can see more of my illustration work here.
If you are the parent of a child with milk or egg allergies or if your family follow a vegan or vegetarian lifestyle these bars are perfect, they’re packed full of nutrient rich ingredients and can be customised according to preference.
Everyone who works with me knows I’m a massive fan of Google’s Material design icons. I designed place category icons for a map to match the Material design style.
For the past few months my team have been developing and designing a brand new streaming service across browser, tvOS, iOS and Android. It has been a fun project in which we have achieved a lot. A big part of that was making everyone part of the design process. Here is how we did it…
Since I moved to Oslo I have lived in 9 different places, taken care of 5 cats, had one operation, been to 3 funerals, 3 weddings, and fallen deeply in love. There are so many special places here, that I have come back to over and over again. Places that might not make it onto a usual tourist blog, but personally make me feel so much love for this city.
For the past few weeks I've been planning, baking, and buying ingredients. I'm getting ready to do a pop up cookie cafe at Oslo Vegetarfestival and let me tell you, I am SO happy to be back in the kitchen doing what I love.
I started my baking project: Sally's Cookies last year as a fun way to do something which helps people. The point of the project is to donate the profits away to organisations which make the world a better place. Every time I sell a cookie, someone gets to eat something delicious, and they also get a good feeling from knowing that they have donated to an important cause. I see it as a non confrontational form of activism. it's a good way to inspire people and spread awareness.
As I'm getting ready to do it all again, I thought it might be cool to look back at my first event in July last year in which I raised money for an LGBTQ rights organisation; Skeiv Ungdom.
Have you ever seen a post on the internet about something awful which starts with the caveat: Trigger Warning? A few years ago I would post ‘trigger warnings’ on all my posts on social media. Now I understand what triggers really are, I don't think trigger warnings are a good idea anymore.
Since creating our app the amount of places with veggie options in Norway has increased dramatically. We now have over 1000 places listed in the app, and over 20,000 users. I have learnt so much about app development, the restaurant scene and the vegan scene, and most importantly I have made some friendships that I hope will last forever.
I had always longed for something that would be powerful enough to switch off the thoughts that plague my mind. Listening to music was always one of my coping mechanisms, but it had to be the right kind of beat. When I’m dancing to techno, I feel it, I’m free.
Hello and welcome to my blog and very first blog post! My name is Sally Renshaw and I am a young(ish) British woman who lives in Oslo, Norway, with my boyfriend and three cats. I've had a funny old life, and when I started to open up about it recently, the people around me started telling me about their lives too. I realised how important it was to talk about our personal experiences, reaching out for help when times are hard, and sharing wisdom on how you can go from coping to thriving. I used to be scared of being honest and vulnerable but I'm not anymore.
