Aug 17, 2022

Underbelly product design team lead Martin and product designer Michelle talk about tokenizing a design system. They cover what design system tokens are, who can use & benefit from them, & how to implement them into your design systems.

Jul 8, 2022

Discovery is the preliminary phase in the product design process. It's a crucial step in setting a project off in the right direction. It ensures you are focusing on the right problems so you build the right product for your end users.

Jun 13, 2022

In this blog, I will outline the role of UX Designers, why you should care about it, and some examples of why they're essential to your business.

Jun 9, 2022

Product thinking has a holistic approach to the problem-solving process, meaning that it sees the product as a whole rather than just focusing on some parts or features of the product.

Jun 2, 2022

Holding regular design critiques is a critical aspect of the design team culture here at Underbelly. Here are a few tips for running and attending good critique sessions—and presenting your work when your turn comes around.

Apr 13, 2022

The question of why companies need project managers for augmented work with agency partners is a valid one. In this article I'm going to provide some valuable answers to it.

Mar 17, 2022

This guide will walk you through everything you need to know to run a successful sprint planning meeting. We cover it all, from who should attend to how you organize and prioritize your backlog.

Jan 31, 2022

Working with 1% has given us an opportunity to expand our charitable network. Their network is far-reaching and only vetted nonprofits that meet certain criteria and drive real, measurable environmental outcomes can become partners.

Jan 28, 2022

Developing emails to perform well across different devices and clients can be frustrating for the inexperienced. Here are some tips on what to look for when creating your email so that your subscribers can see them as you intended.

Jan 13, 2022

Here are a few tips on planning your logo animations, plus a review of several of the age-old animation principles and how they apply to your logo animations.

Jan 6, 2022

Learn how to master the asynchronous nature of state setters in react that can cause unexpected behavior in the way your component executes.

Dec 22, 2021

Team member, Mackayla, rallied our crew and organized efforts to give back to our community with the United Way Sub for Santa program. With the money raised, we provided Christmas to children in need.

Dec 20, 2021

Let's discuss the relationship between brand and illustration. What is brand illustration? Who needs it? How do we define a brand illustration style?

Nov 18, 2021

Our Underbelly team knows a thing or two about intentional, beautifully designed products. We put our brains together and curated a list of our top recommended gift ideas - perfect for loved ones, employees, or even clients.

Nov 15, 2021

Email design can quickly turn an overlooked product into a catalyst for your company. Awesome emails can ease the burden upon customer service to answer further questions and let your company operate on a more self-service basis.

Oct 28, 2021

Salt Lake Design Week celebrates and promotes the impact of all design in Utah. This inclusive event recognizes all design disciplines, including graphic, digital, product, fashion, photography, architecture, interior, and more.

Sep 13, 2021

Finding moments to decompress and connect is so necessary as we adapt to the blending of remote and local team members. If we mostly talk through a screen, how do we grow and maintain relationships at work?

Sep 1, 2021

Underbelly is honored to have a spot on the 2021 Inc. 5000 list. Our team of designers, developers, and filmmakers had a 166% 3-year growth. Cue the confetti!

Jul 16, 2021

Designing a typeface and creating a font has been on my designer bucket list’ for a very long time. It was always one of those things I would tell myself I would do but would get put on the backburner.

Jul 8, 2021

For years, all of our project management documentation was being saved in a Google Drive folder with no clear identifier on when to use the document and why

Jun 10, 2021

Our days are filled with meetings and many of us ask ourselves, are they needed? Do I need to attend this meeting? Could this be covered over Slack?

Jun 8, 2021

Watch Eugenie Teasley, Social Impact at Uber, discuss how you can best influence social impact in your life and career. What fires you up? What makes you want to make a difference?

Jun 8, 2021

Nancy Douyon is a champion for the marginalized user. As a global design ethicist and consultant, she challenges problem solvers to rethink how they use design to scale impact.

Jun 8, 2021

"It's taking that thing that you are passionate about and knowing how to share that skill with a child. It's what causes that step to success, not only individual but as a community." - Danjuma Alcala

Jun 7, 2021

Claude Silver is the Chief Heart Officer at VaynerMedia and boy did she speak from the heart at this year’s Spring Drop-In! Her session was titled “Whatever You Believe, You Prove”.

May 20, 2021

It seems that many organizations are growing and hiring project managers to support their growing business. Onboarding new employees can be challenging, time consuming and at times, even scary.

May 12, 2021

Git is fundamental to what developers do, but if you’re not a developer it can be hard to understand. This article makes understanding Git as easy as baking cookies!

May 10, 2021

The past year and a half has been quite the rocky one. At Underbelly, we have always believed in making a positive impact, and the last several months have only fueled that fundamental.

May 8, 2021

We went through a redesign of our site after three years. We wanted to bring the site into a more current look and feel to better match the evolving Underbelly brand.

Dec 16, 2020

It’s no surprise that 2020 has changed how we go about our day to day lives. As so many people have gone to work from home, the idea of even attending a professional conference has felt impossible.

Sep 16, 2020

Being able to see well has nothing to do with accessibility, rather, it’s the practice of looking through the eyes of those who can't look through yours.

Aug 17, 2020

While we are all extremely grateful to be in the position to still have our jobs and be able to do them remotely, working from home has presented some challenges.

Aug 14, 2020

Brad, our resident Illustrator extraordinaire, created a colorful and playful wildlife illustration piece for our common space based on native animals to Utah.

Jul 23, 2020

1 out of 5 people worldwide live with some sort of disability. This guide introduces four different types of disabilities and offers actionable steps that we as designers can take to ensure that our products work for everyone.

Jul 17, 2020

One of our ongoing goals at Underbelly is to "Do Good". Even though donating blood is TERRIFYING, we decided to host a Red Cross Blood Drive at our studio.

Jul 9, 2020

The design team has started to adopt Figma as its main design tool. With a host of new capabilities, Figma has helped us improve our workflow especially as we navigate working from home. Here are some of the reasons we’re not looking back.

Jun 26, 2020

Pairing has become an essential part of my workflow, and after six months of doing it daily, I have learned a lot. Here are my tips for making the most of your pair sessions as a junior developer.

Jun 25, 2020

Properly defining easing can be a confusing mess at times. In this post we attempt to clarify some basics so you can get back to animating without over thinking if you've applied the correct easing.

Jun 25, 2020

Working with designers and developers at Underbelly, we have found that we all do our best when we have clear goals and a strong understanding of the task at hand.

Jun 25, 2020

If you had told me in college that I would be a project manager, I would have said, “what’s a project manager?”. It was never even a job I knew existed.

Jun 22, 2020

There are many obvious ways to track productivity that I do feel confident in, but here at Underbelly we are always challenged to think outside the box

Jun 15, 2020

As a project manager, one of my primary goals is to support others in staying organized and keeping myself organized so that I am on top of everything going on. One way of doing this is through the Zero Inbox method.

Jun 10, 2020

Project managers are in a unique position. On the one hand, we are responsible for managing the budget and timeline of a project. On the other hand, we are responsible for managing people and our interpersonal communication.

Jun 10, 2020

As we are still in the midst of this Covid-19 pandemic, we've focused our charitable efforts to organizations that are making a difference. This is where we have been seeing a need and have been jumped in to support over the last month.

Jun 9, 2020

Watch the story of how DPS - an SLC ski manufacturer - worked with the local community and got innovative to save their business and help medical workers during COVID-19

Jun 9, 2020

Our employees are our greatest asset and we believe the stronger our teams, the better our outcome. At Underbelly we are always looking for ways to grow our recognition efforts.

Jun 5, 2020

Each quarter, we challenge ourselves to become more efficient, ensure client satisfaction and prevent employee burnout. In setting challenging goals, we research and test many new methods, one of which is Lean.

Jun 4, 2020

Have you ever taken a look at your ever-growing to-do list and felt so overwhelmed that you don’t know where to start? Don’t worry, so have we.

Jun 3, 2020

At Underbelly we are always striving to enhance our client and team experience. In order to do so, we recently took a 22 hour agile bootcamp

May 27, 2020

App Ideas come to me randomly at any time. As a software developer, I have the power to turn some of my ideas into reality. But I’m working a full-time job programming for 8 hours a day, I want to make sure I’m not wasting my time.

May 20, 2020

Taking the time to go through Process Mapping helps evaluate, articulate, visualize, and document your processes, giving them life outside of your head.

May 18, 2020

Moving away from in-person stand ups allows us to be more flexible in terms of where we work, we have the tools in place which allow us to be flexible and remote as needed.

May 12, 2020

Underbelly has been working on supporting OSS for a long time, and we're finally doing it in multiple ways! Read about our journey with OSS.

May 11, 2020

2019 was a massive one at Underbelly. New space, new faces, new clients and lots of good times. Super proud of the work we've done. Here's a look at some of the highlights of the year.

May 7, 2020

It's important to determine if a company is a good fit for you when you're interviewing. Give this question a try during your next interview to see what insights you can uncover.

May 7, 2020

Ever wondered about refs in React? Are you curious what they do and how to use them? Here's a quick tutorial on how to use them for DOM manipulation.

May 6, 2020

As an agency, we get asked consistently, are you agile? With our mix of clients, it’s hard to be fully agile or traditional at an agency, so we do both.

May 2, 2020

As restrictions begin to ease up around the country, we wanted to create something to help remind people that staying safe is still important.

Apr 21, 2020

We wanted to have a design exercise for the team, and what's better than making a pile of patches? Seven of our designers jumped at the challenge to create a custom patch.

Apr 7, 2020

Underbelly Creative Director, Dave Keller, walks through Global Swatches in Illustrator in this video. Global Swatches allows you to be nimble when you need to make quick revisions from a client's feedback or finalize colors for a project.

Mar 19, 2020

As the Coronavirus (COVID-2019) pandemic is spreading at an exponential rate, tens of thousands of people have been impacted daily by losing work, have a lack of medical care and food supply.

Feb 27, 2020

An Underbelly designer was asked to share a presentation with the Salt Lake Motion Graphics Group. The event was hosted by Adobe on Thursday, February 27th, 2020. This is a short transcript of that presentation.

Jan 27, 2020

Recently, we put a match out with the hope that we could inspire as many as we could to support the efforts that are happening right now. Thanks to all of those that gave to the organizations that are on the ground helping in Australia.

Jan 8, 2020

Join us in an effort to help those affected in the Australia fires. By giving creatively and taking advantage of match donations, you could even quadruple your contribution.

Dec 19, 2019

As first timers to both Singapore and the UXSEA summit, we were excited to tune in on some of Asia’s keynote speakers, and learn about the UX culture in Asia.

Nov 1, 2019

Having kids shouldn’t be something that hinders your career, makes you fearful of losing your job, losing your health insurance, or stress over finances from being away from work. We want to make it better.

Oct 29, 2019

As October comes to an end, we want to give a huge thanks to all of our hack night attendees. We hope everyone who came was able to mingle with members of the community, learn something new, and get inspired about open-source software.

Sep 23, 2019

Underbelly has partnered with the IRC in Salt Lake City to contribute to the people within our planet who need it most. We strongly believe in our social responsibility to the planet, and to the people who inhabit it.

Sep 16, 2019

The crew at Underbelly took advantage of the beautiful state that we live in by celebrating our time off, with time outside. We spent our Labor Day weekend enjoying the sun and each other's company at Pineview Reservoir in Ogden, Utah.

Sep 4, 2019

This isn’t an expose about all the things we learned at React Training, because people paid to learn at the workshop. However, here are four hooks we’re using, or getting ready to use, and their most common use cases for the Belly team.

Aug 26, 2019

We learned more about the process and grit it takes to create a unique piece of artwork to enhance the outside of our new creative agency in Salt Lake City. Our neon sign dreams finally came true.

Jun 24, 2019

Underbelly Creative Director, Dave Keller, will walk you through some Illustrator shortcuts that he has been using for the last eight years, and show you some new tools with a plugin called Astute Graphics.

Jun 21, 2019

With a new cyc wall and several awesome motorcycles in the office it was a no brainer as to what we were going to shoot first. Here is a quick breakdown of how we pulled it off as well as a few things we learned in the process.

Jun 11, 2019

Good food and drinks are great, but it’s the company that we love most. Underbelly recently moved into a new creative space, right across the street from our previous studio, and we’ve been itching to show it off.

May 13, 2019

How does one create a perfect portfolio, without the photo studio? At our recent workshop for students at the University of Utah, we created light box setups for them to photograph their work for their portfolios for less than $45.

Apr 29, 2019

Creating a positive website user experience is vital for businesses of every size. Here we talk about our experience teaching UX principles to local businesses in our community and all that we learned in the process.

Apr 4, 2019

Every season we put together a non-denominational-winter-festivities gift package for our friends and clients. Here we share the creative process that went into creating the artwork for last year's holiday gift.

Apr 1, 2019

When we heard that the Awwwards conference was in Amsterdam, we knew we had to attend. Thanks to Underbelly's focus on growth, we were able to attend; here are a few takeaways from Awwwards that we'd like to share with you.

Mar 11, 2019

Explaining just what exactly we do at Underbelly can be challenging at times. For the uninitiated, here are a few recent pieces of our work that exist in the real world that will help you understand what we do here.

Feb 28, 2019

Taking steps towards designing for accessibility can be easier than you might think. Here are three general themes that can help ensure that as a designer, you are frequently accounting for accessibility throughout your creative process.

Feb 19, 2019

Focus more on values than behaviors- values shape behaviors. It’s a lot more effective to shape the reasons you do something than it is to try to force yourself to simply act differently.

Feb 13, 2019

You can learn a lot about someone by what’s in their bag. Today Brad Edwards, Designer and Illustrator, shares what he hauls around to keep productive, entertained, and alive.

Feb 1, 2019

Good design solves hard problems. At Underbelly, we want to tackle complex challenges facing our neighborhood and community by using our creative skills to help others. What does that look like? We're on a journey to find out.

Jan 18, 2019

You can learn a lot about someone by what’s in their bag. For Dave Keller, that means all-weather gear that holds up so he can free his mind and body (by bike, by board, on the Jiu-Jitsu mat).

Jan 2, 2019

We've been working alongside the Facebook Events team to help people spend time together in the real world by developing a product that makes it easy to discover nearby movies, purchase tickets, and plan an outing.

Dec 11, 2018

You can learn a lot about someone by what’s in their bag. This month, developer Drew Delianides reveals why analog tools are still key to his software-based job.

Nov 26, 2018

What we learn and unlearn to become better designers. Some lessons on branding everything from a professional football team to a mysterious city on the edge of the world.

Nov 1, 2018

What does honesty have to do with creativity? We went to Creative Mornings to find out how exactly honesty can help us in our personal and professional lives.

Oct 10, 2018

Good design is objectively good. Whether you agree with this sentiment or not, we all inevitably engage with clients or stakeholders who believe otherwise. So let's learn how to measure it quickly and cheaply with guerrilla validation.

Oct 1, 2018

Epicurrence reminded us why it’s so critical to step away from your daily routine and engage with people who, while sharing similar passion for design, bring very different perspectives to the table

Sep 19, 2018

You can learn a lot about someone by what’s in their bag. Today, our very own Matt Scribner, Underbelly’s art director, reveals how, among other things, he maintains a growing sticker collection without breaking his back.

Jun 4, 2018

Being productive leads to professional achievements, personal and professional stress reduction, and more time to do the things you love. We found three common strategies that most use.

May 24, 2018

Every system needs a way to get its issues worked out. It’s not always the most glamorous work, but designing a good framework for error handling is crucial in helping users avoid frustration and reach their goals while using a product.

Mar 5, 2018

I have worked in the graphic arts my entire adult life, and I have learned more in the last 3 years at Underbelly Creative than at any other time of my life.

Feb 12, 2018

Let’s start with the truth: everybody lies. And of all the lies we tell ourselves, “I just don’t have enough time,” hurts us the most.

Jan 16, 2018

Designers are told to sell their work. That doesn’t mean we need to be pitching our work—at least not in the traditional sense.