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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.
Jon Moore
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?
Christian Beck
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?
Christian Beck
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.
Jon Moore
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.
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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.”
Jon Moore
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
Christian Beck
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.
Jon Moore
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…
Christian Beck
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…
Christian Beck
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.
Jon Moore
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?”
Jon Moore
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.
Christian Beck
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:
Christian Beck
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…
Jon Moore
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…
Christian Beck
Jan 24
How to Understand Code Like a Designer
How to Understand Code Like a Designer
Learn just enough to not embarrass yourself
Christian Beck
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?
Jon Moore
Jan 17
5 Types of Really Good Emails
5 Types of Really Good Emails
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Jon Moore
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
Christian Beck
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
Christian Beck
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
Christian Beck
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
Jon Moore
Oct 11, 2017
Tiny Trend #8: s̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶t̶h̶r̶o̶u̶g̶h̶ Selection
Tiny Trend #8: s̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶t̶h̶r̶o̶u̶g̶h̶ Selection
A striking new web trend
Jon Moore
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.
Evan Tank
Oct 4, 2017
Tiny Trend #7: Chunky, Overlapping Underlines
Tiny Trend #7: Chunky, Overlapping Underlines
1px underlines are so dated. Ew.
Jon Moore
Sep 26, 2017
Design a Reusable System Modal
Design a Reusable System Modal
The “Are you sure about that?” dialog that every app needs.
Evan Tank
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.
Jon Moore
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…”
Jon Moore
Aug 30, 2017
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