Creating a custom map is one of the most daunting tasks in visual design, simply because when you are using a program like Mapbox or Mapme, your canvas is the size of the world itself. As a designer, you will be faced with a series of complex decisions, ranging from how best to represent a lake as opposed to an ocean, a village as opposed to a country, or a bridge as opposed to a tunnel. …

For anyone involved in illustration, animation, or graphic design, creating an iMessage stickerpack is a great opportunity to put your work out there for people to use in the App Store.

I first got the idea to create a stickerpack earlier this year. In 2016, frustrated with the political climate, I created The Animated Donnie GIF Series and shared it as a joke with my friends. But as the months rolled by, my animations got buried in my newsfeed by what felt like an endless series of daily scandals in the news. …

In this post, I’ll be talking about how to create a custom loader in After Effects and export it to a .json file using a plugin called Bodymovin.

For a user of an app or website, a “page loading” icon may be the smallest of your concerns. But as a designer with betterPT, I’ve found that carefully curating small details like this actually goes a long way towards cultivating a more amenable user experience.

When I started thinking about how to create my loader, I knew that I wanted something easily identifiable with our brand, so I started playing with…