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A publication for stupid designer tricks, trends, and design humor.

A Quick Start Guide to UX Power Tools

A Quick Start Guide to UX Power Tools

It’s so easy you’ll wonder why you ever designed any other way.

May 15, 2017

How to Know When to Stop Designing

How to Know When to Stop Designing

You know that oft-quoted line from Antoine Saint-Exupery?

Apr 12

Suburban Tract Housing and the Death of Craftsmanship: A Critique of Digital Design Systems

Suburban Tract Housing and the Death of Craftsmanship: A Critique of Digital Design Systems

Are they truly improving the design craft?

Apr 5

A Day in the Life of DesignerNews 🙃

A Day in the Life of DesignerNews 🙃

This is a farce, so lighten up and try to enjoy it.

Mar 29

UX Power Tools is the most advanced Sketch design system ever made. It’s like Bootstrap for designers. All the hard work is already done for you, so you get to focus on the fun part: designing.

UX Power Tools is the most advanced Sketch design system ever made. It’s like Bootstrap for designers. All the hard work is already done for you, so you get to focus on the fun part: designing.

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Here’s everything I’ve learned from designing 10,000+ UI screens as a lead product designer.

Here’s everything I’ve learned from designing 10,000+ UI screens as a lead product designer.

Besides: “Yes, that is still misaligned.”

Mar 27

How to Present Your Design to Stakeholders

How to Present Your Design to Stakeholders

There’s a time and place to reference design principles, this ain’t it

Mar 20

How to make a color-changing logo symbol in Sketch so you don’t have to keep bothering marketing…

How to make a color-changing logo symbol in Sketch so you don’t have to keep bothering marketing…

Frankly, I’m impressed you made it through that title.

Mar 14

Design Trend: Offset + Overlapping Content Blocks

Design Trend: Offset + Overlapping Content Blocks

Designers are continuing to break out of the grid. It’s been a great evolution from the early days of responsive web design. 5 years ago…

Mar 7

How to be a Valuable Designer

How to be a Valuable Designer

Design school (and amazing design blogs) teach you the skills and theory to become a great designer. Your first big corporate job probably…

Feb 27

25 Fun Things You Can Say to Annoy Your Fellow Designers

25 Fun Things You Can Say to Annoy Your Fellow Designers

Not that you would ever do that on purpose or anything.

Feb 27

How to Make a Progress Bar Symbol in Sketch That Actually Lets You Resize the Progress Bar

How to Make a Progress Bar Symbol in Sketch That Actually Lets You Resize the Progress Bar

Or, “Why did it take me so long to figure this out?”

Feb 8

How to Get Out of Designing Another #@!%ing Dashboard

How to Get Out of Designing Another #@!%ing Dashboard

Disclaimer: If you enjoy dashboards, this article isn’t for you.

Feb 7

How to Contribute in Meetings

How to Contribute in Meetings

When you’re just starting out in design, you really don’t know much about anything. Of course…you leave grad school thinking the opposite:

Feb 1

4 Tricks for Fast Image Fills in Sketch

4 Tricks for Fast Image Fills in Sketch

Tiny Techniques are bitesized design tricks to make you a better, faster designer in Sketch. Sometimes you’ll already be doing it…sometimes…

Jan 29

How to Take Design Feedback from Non-Designers

How to Take Design Feedback from Non-Designers

There’s no shortage of great articles about how to give and receive design critiques. But what I’ve learned over the years is that most of…

Jan 24

How to Understand Code Like a Designer

How to Understand Code Like a Designer

Learn just enough to not embarrass yourself

Jan 18

7 Techniques for Better, Faster Layer Management in Sketch

7 Techniques for Better, Faster Layer Management in Sketch

If cakes have layers, and designs have layers, does a cake design have double the layers?

Jan 17

5 Types of Really Good Emails

5 Types of Really Good Emails

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Dec 11, 2017

Getting Started with UX Design in Sketch

Getting Started with UX Design in Sketch

A primer for new UX designers and design students

Dec 7, 2017

Tiny Trend #11: Organic + Digital UI Decorations

Tiny Trend #11: Organic + Digital UI Decorations

The blend of high fidelity and organic elements ain’t just for your grandma’s scrapbook

Nov 22, 2017

Tiny Trend #10: Gold UI

Tiny Trend #10: Gold UI

Long considered hard to use in web design, a new gold standard emerges

Nov 8, 2017

Tiny Trend #9: Framing Around the Entire Site

Tiny Trend #9: Framing Around the Entire Site

If you love it, put it in a frame

Oct 11, 2017

Tiny Trend #8: s̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶t̶h̶r̶o̶u̶g̶h̶ Selection

Tiny Trend #8: s̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶t̶h̶r̶o̶u̶g̶h̶ Selection

A striking new web trend

Oct 6, 2017

Design an Adaptive Notification Dropdown in Sketch

Design an Adaptive Notification Dropdown in Sketch

What’s behind the little bell icon in the top right corner of just about every application.

Oct 4, 2017

Tiny Trend #7: Chunky, Overlapping Underlines

Tiny Trend #7: Chunky, Overlapping Underlines

1px underlines are so dated. Ew.

Sep 26, 2017

Design a Reusable System Modal

Design a Reusable System Modal

The “Are you sure about that?” dialog that every app needs.

Sep 23, 2017

Sketch Libraries: How they work, and the crazy stuff you can do with them

Sketch Libraries: How they work, and the crazy stuff you can do with them

This new feature is even better than nested symbols. I promise.

Sep 1, 2017

50 Things You [Probably] Forgot To Design

50 Things You [Probably] Forgot To Design

Every PM: “I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed…”

Aug 30, 2017

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