This week’s pick: Ditto plugin for Figma. It’s a UX copywriting plugin that integrates with free to use Ditto app where UX writers can easily manage and maintain copy across different UI artboards. The best bit about this plugin is that working within bigger teams you can track the...
This week’s pick: Attention Insights Sketch plugin for design analytics. It’s a recent discovery that I plan to adapt to my Sketch product and UI design workflow. It allows to quickly produce interesting and actionable attention heatmaps for each of your design artboards. In this video, I’ll test the...
The following 7 design, inspiration and other bits of interest bullets that kept me pondering during last month: While designers still struggle to understand the difference between trends and fads, I do like this new wave of style (which I would still consider a fad to pass within a...
This week’s pick: Details design system. A kit that I’ve used to start scalable and powerful UI and product design systems in an Atomic Design framework for quite some time. Details kit provides a simple yet structured starter for any designer to customise. Better yet, you can download Sketch...
Goodbye Adobe CC – Why I Stopped Using Adobe Products as a UX Designer is a quick take highlighting the reasons that made me stop using Adobe CC products as a UX designer. Note, that I’ve been using Adobe since the early days of Macromedia (way before it was...
This week’s pick: AI photo generator experiment from NVIDIA.Not the most user-friendly, but surely powerful and impressive machine learning piece. By selecting a sample bitmap and drawing a rough sketch you’ll get a quickly generated output. Most of it looks a bit watercoloured or washed out, however some landscapes...
A design system is a collection of reusable product design components, that are guided by clear standards. Atomic Design System patterns are usually tested with users, the commercial side of things and have been proven to be successful to assemble new features. Needless to say, design systems are UX...
In this new weekly UX design, user research and product design tools series I’ll share some of the best picks I’ve encountered to date. You’ll find out about the best apps, extensions, websites and other helpful tools. This weeks pick: Gifox, a .GIF (hard G) recording and sharing app...
Non-disclosure agreements and UX portfolios is one of the trickiest parts of any UX and product designer work. If you work on sensitive intellectual property work you almost never allowed to showcase it. This is one of those things that designers tend to either cover up with private portfolios...
I’m a terrible writer. Per my past editors, I assemble my sentences like a robot. The mild dyslexia doesn’t help either. But here’s the thing. There is a bigger copy sin than one’s inability to make the text flow smoothly. It’s the thing that causes boredom and immediate glazing-over...