A quick guide to setup a wallet and start collecting NFTs for noobs.
Believe the hype
You must have heard all the hype about NFTs everywhere, and you might be asking yourself how to get into the action. But also, like me, a month ago, you must have been faced with a steep learning curve to get started. In this series, I want to explain some of the basics of becoming a collector. We’ll begin with wallets!
Buying NFTs (non-fungible tokens) is a fantastic way to invest in digital assets and financially support artists. A lot of NFTs also give you usage rights to create derivatives. …
And some color tools to design for accessibility
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In this issue:
Tools: Photoshop on iPad
Resources: Glyphy
Design Systems: Chicago Design System
Communities: Elpha
Typography: Typographic Illusions
Category: Framer Guide to React
Thoughts: The Frequency Illusion
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Photoshop on iPad—Tools
OMG. Photoshop is finally on the iPad! Now we can do digital painting, build animations, and create beautiful cat memes on a tablet. Aww yeah!
Glyphy—Resources
Glyphy is a simple online tool that allows you to easily copy special characters & symbols (also known as glyphs) to your device’s clipboard so that you can then paste them to any document or…
Another Week of Design Stuff
In this issue:
Typography: Fontsmith Variable Fonts
More Typography: Hellvetica
News: No More Political Ads on Twitter
More News: Google Buys Fitbit
Resources: Line Awesome
Illustrator: Diana Stoyanova
Thoughts: Availability heuristic
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Fontsmith Variable Fonts—Typography
And it Affects Everyone
In this issue:
Portfolio: Bruno Simon’s Portfolio
Illustrator: Jade Purple Brown
Design Systems: Spectrum
Tool: Screen Size Map
Game: Can You Draw a Perfect Circle?
Resources: The Freelance Life
Collections: Awesome Design Plugins
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Bruno Simon’s Portfolio–Portfolio
Embracing Open Design as a way to learn and grow together.
Today I launched Open Doodles, a set of free illustrations that embraces the idea of Open Design. You can copy, edit, remix, share, or redraw these images for any purpose without restriction under copyright or database law (CC0 license.)
I hope that this kind of resource makes it easier for designers to show the value of illustration in their mockups. Maybe you use these images as placeholders before you’re ready to hire an illustrator. Or perhaps this will encourage others to create their own kit and share it with the world.
Spamming since 2019
In this issue:
New Logo and Site: Sandwich New Logo & Site
Just a New Logo: Twitch New Logo
Another New Logo: Yahoo New Logo
Good Read: Designing at Google
Personal Update: Profiles in Latinxs Who Design
Thoughts: Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them
This newsletter was originally sent on 09/30/2019.
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Sandwich New Logo & Site—New Logo
Sandwich is the most sought-after producer of videos for tech companies, large and small. They’ve made videos for Slack, Casper, Coin. They just changed their name from Sandwich Video to only Sandwich, featuring a bold, vibrant new logo that looks more… sandwichy.
Twitch New Logo—New Logo
Twitch…
Organic Design Goodies
In this issue:
Tools: Colorbox
Tools: Xcode 11
Illustrator: Nico 189
Illustrator: Brigitte Cronje
Tutorial: Creating an Illustration Library
Tutorial: Animating with Flipaclip
Resource: Smarter Patterns
Resource: Product Disrupt
Thoughts: The Ten-Percent Myth
This newsletter was originally sent on 09/23/2019.
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Colorbox—Tools
Colorbox is a tool to produce color sets with accessible contrast ratios between text and background. You can set the number of steps, and change the saturation, hue, and luminosity values of the start and end. Lyft’s design team open-sourced this excellent app. 🎨
Xcode 11—Tools
Xcode 11 brings SwiftUI, a new framework with design tools to enable a new…
