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Great Interfaces Are Made Of Good Typography
Digital interfaces make a huge impact in our lives. We frequently use websites or digital applications to accomplish certain goals. Indeed, when interacting with an interface, we are surrounded by...
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Ever Wonder Why The Most Popular Apps Are Starting To Look The Same? It Might...
Header image: Copyright MSTQ, Inc. Open Instagram, Airbnb, Apple Music, Twitter, Dropbox or Lyft and at first glance it might feel like it’s hard to tell the difference between which app is which: big,...
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Four Reasons Why You Should Design Without Color First
Creating your screens in grayscale before adding color forces you think clearly and prioritize right when it comes to UX design. 1. You focus on layout and spacing When you start designing keeping the...
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Gradients in UI Design
For a long time, using gradients was the biggest no-no in design. Designers tended to avoid gradients because they created a strong impression of design from the 90s. [caption id="attachment_17643"...
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What I Wish I’d Known About Designing Conversational UIs
If there’s one lesson that has been validated in every conversational UI product I’ve worked on, it’s that building the interaction is just the beginning. Testing and iterating are the most...
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10 Cheat Codes for Designing User Interfaces
I’d probably assume that most of us started in UI design with the littlest knowledge or nothing at all. But even though the odds were against us at the start, we managed our way through numerous design...
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Generative Design for Graphic Designers
Problems can never be solved at the level they were created — Albert Einstein I will never forget remember as a young child being taught how to draw a tree. I was naturally gifted at drawing even at a...
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The 4px Baseline Grid
The Problem It drives me crazy that the text bounding box almost always brings in extra space above and below the actual text. Therefore, when the bounding box is used to measure space, it ends up...
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How to combine typefaces successfully to add personality to your digital...
In my first article “Great interfaces are made of good typography”, I explained some principles to master in order to create digital interfaces which communicate effectively with good working...
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8 reasons for using transparency in visual design
In 1890 the Milton Bradley Company published a historically significant manual on teaching color to children called Color in the School-room: A Manual for Teachers. It was exceedingly scientific for a...
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Choosing the right UI component for communication with your users
In this article, I’ll explain how to choose the right UI component for the type of message you want to deliver to your users. For this purpose, I created a friction scale which rates UI components...
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The 2021 Design Trends You Need to Keep Up With
When designing your marketing materials and website, it can be easy to rest on your laurels. However, if you don’t keep up with market trends, your materials will quickly become dry and outdated. As we...
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