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Francis Cortez
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Mar 2, 2015

Origami and Material Design

Getting a better understanding of both @makeshowlearn Origami 2.0 Facebook released Origami 2.0. (Note: I’ll refer to it as Origami to avoid interchanging between Quartz Composer and Origami.) I’m comfortable with Framer and can get along pretty well in Form. But I’m pretty much brand new to Origami. This is my first deep dive into Origami. Similar to what…

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Origami and Material Design
Origami and Material Design
Design

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Jan 16, 2015

Design Sprint III: Prompts

Daily writing app concept @makeshowlearn Like plenty of other people, I have a backlog of project ideas. This list of ideas is long enough—because being a good idea isn’t a requirement—that I know I’ll never get around to building them all. Design sprints are a great way to work through an idea enough to know…

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Personal Design Sprint III: Prompts
Personal Design Sprint III: Prompts

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Dec 22, 2014

Prototyping with Form for the first time

Learning RelativeWave’s interaction design tool — @makeshowlearn tl;dr — I wanted to learn how to use RelativeWave’s Form, so I broke an example down and created a few prototypes of my own. These are my thoughts throughout the process. First, some questions What is Form?

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Prototyping with Form for the first time
Prototyping with Form for the first time

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Aug 25, 2014

Material Design exploration: NBA scores

Applying the Material Design language to a concept NBA app. Google introduced Material Design a few months ago. I watched the Material Design reel more than a few times to re-create portions in Framer: the music player and the white box sequence. I enjoyed making those, but I wanted to…

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Material Design exploration: NBA scores
Material Design exploration: NBA scores
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Aug 3, 2014

Personal Design Sprint II: Food Tracking

Applying the design sprint approach to a side project. — About my first sprint In my first personal design sprint, I explored an interface for creating photo layouts. It was based on a series of posts by Jake Knapp (@jakek), which you can find in the Google Ventures library. Each sprint breaks down into five days: Understand Diverge Decide Prototype Validate The design sprint…

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Personal Design Sprint II: Food Tracking
Personal Design Sprint II: Food Tracking

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Francis Cortez

Francis Cortez

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