Practical tips to continuously improve your visual design skills

To align design and business, visualize the shared narratives

Figma was the latest company to mishandle AI and design — foreshadowing the loss of a vast array of design jobs. We should demand better from our tools and industry.

As designers, we should challenge fragmentation rather than foster it.

Find the visual center of your images. Upload your logos and images and find the visual center.

We reviewed the biggest apps in the world - here's what we learnt.

TL;DR: Be careful when using the word menu. Be certain you have chosen the term that accurately describes the control you want. If this post looks familiar to you, that is because it is essentially a redress of my 2020 post Stop Using ‘Drop-down’. It is not as divergent as…

Simple brief, complex executions: UX Motion Designer Ade shares his journey on bringing 2022 Wrapped's data stories to life.

Design handoffs are inefficient and painful. They cause frustration, friction and a lot of back and forth. Can we avoid them altogether? Of course we can! Let’s see how to do just that.

How can we make disabled buttons more inclusive? When do they work well, and when do they fail on us? And finally, when do we actually need them, and how can we avoid them? Let’s find out.

Slack’s accessibility team recently launched a series of changes to make navigating around Slack more reliable and efficient for keyboard-only and screen reader users. While our accessibility had significantly improved over the last few years, we were still hearing from blind and low-vision users that moving around the interface felt disorienting and noisy. One user […]

What is Juice in software development. What is Game Feel & how it can it be used in non-game software. How software can fulfil emotional requirements. How to create software with soul. Examples of Juice on the web.

A new typeface from Shantell Martin

An in-depth course on images for the web.

How can we make disabled buttons more inclusive? When do they work well, and when do they fail on us? And finally, when do we actually need them, and how can we avoid them? Let’s find out.

The Gestalt team tells us how they used Figma’s REST API to create FigStats, a dashboard for visualizing component usage.

Meet design mentors from over 40 countries for portfolio review, career advice, mock interviews or leadership advice — all in this global community.

Support right-to-left languages like Arabic and Hebrew by reversing your interface as needed to match the reading direction of the related scripts.

Figma Community plugin - ⭐️ SimpleFlow makes it easy to create native FigJam connector inside Figma file, have fun! To use: Open SimpleFlow pluginClick on the button to copy the connector elementPaste it into the canvas and edit it! Feature: 👉 Automatically update the position 👉 Add extra label on the connector 👉 Custom...

Design systems are not pattern libraries, and abandoning them for "experimental" AI won't free us from constraints.

Unlocking the full potential of your design system with the power of chat GPT

Advanced courses for designers who never stop learning.

Generate all possible instances for your components, including every combination of variants and component properties, all in a tidy labelled table. Creating tables Select one or multiple components or component sets.Run Propstar.That's it! A table of instances will be generated behind your comp...

Includes info on title case vs sentence case. For Intuit content designers, the words on their own should guide customers, but sometimes financial and tax language needs special formatting for clarity.

An overview of the new WCAG 2.1 Success Criteria broken down by user groups that they accommodate and other helpful resources.

Making text accessible should be part of everyday practice. However, general typographic practices of optimizing legibility and readability don’t necessarily go all the way towards making text accessible.

A simple but thorough checklist to reference every time we need to choose a new typeface, with each item explained in detail.

A detailed approach to combining typefaces based on their construction.

Applying the principles of WCAG 3.0 to some current visions of the future