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A basic sticker sheet and workflow for animating user interfaces

Have you filled out an online form recently?

My favourite design element is the buttons. In fact, I [insert swear word of your choice] love buttons. In this cheat sheet, we will go…

Adobe recently announced their updated version of Adobe XD at Adobe Max in October and introduced a new feature called ‘Auto-Animate’.

If you’ve ever watched The Joy of Painting, you know how Bob Ross’s broad strokes of blue, black, and green, expertly placed and blended over the course of 25 minutes, come together to form a masterpiece.

To help you move fast and easy, we’ve put together a list of tips and tricks for getting the best out of Craft. Read on and work better.

Choose Fonts, Set a Hierarchy, and Integrate with Components

Laying out text used to be fairly straightforward. Then computers came along and ruined everything.

A crash course for UX newbies to setting up your own UX process.

I delivered the 5th Design in Tech Report at SXSW in Austin, Texas on March 9, 2019. This report covers the latest trends in the technology sphere with respect to computational design and its continuing evolution. At the event I miked myself up to make a private recording, and I also did a screen capture. There were a few technical difficulities, but luckily they resolved themselves or a bit of MacGyver-ing fixed the situation.

A framework for building enduring products

A couple of days ago made a free UI Kit in Figma of not existing online magazine Wunderzine. I made it for a demonstration. And today I…

Your team's guide to using design sprints to reduce politics, increase collaboration, and focus on answers (outcomes) and not just assets (outputs).

Nowadays it’s hard to impress or even surprise with an interface animation. It shows interactions between screens, explains how to use the…

Skip the introduction: 1:47. Good luck and have fun! Software and services used: Abstract: https://www.goabstract.com/ Sketch: https://www.sketchapp.com/ Medium article about Design System Preparation mentioned in the tutorial: https://medium.com/creative-controller/design-systems-preparation-software-services-and-plugins-e269c05db20 Sketch file created in the tutorial: https://sketch.cloud/s/gJJwJ #Sketchtutorial #Designsystems #Designtutorial

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This new version of the Design Sprint includes some pretty major developments that your clients and team will love.

Even a basic understanding of contrast and font size adjustments are enough to make your sites consumable by a wider audience.

Product/market is less intuitive than it should be. When founders ask me whether they’re ready to start a growth team, I often spend the…

Common mistakes designers make and how to fix them

The study found that by the end of 2016 there will be roughly 168 million devices that utilize motion or gesture tracking, including wearables, VR and more.

Design tokens are mainly used for “core” properties (colors, typography, spacing, etc). But trust me, they can do much more than just this.