In this article I’ve compiled 10 of my most popular UI & UX Tips — When creating efficient, accessible, and beautiful UIs, it takes only the tiniest of tweaks to improve your designs. Here I’ve compiled 10 of my most popular UI & UX Tips that can, with little effort, help improve both your designs and the user experience. Let’s check them out… 1. How darkening your Text can improve Readability. When it…

I remember reading an article a while back, and it was about how people get super hyped up about their preferred design tool. But… …The article also made an even more significant point that a designer’s creativity is the primary factor in successful design. …

Nothing you see is 100% original, so take someone else’s ideas, improve it, and make it your own. — Nothing is truly original. Every design you come across is influenced by something that came before it. There’s only so many building blocks to go around right? The key thing is how you assemble those pieces and give it your own voice, and style. I’m guilty of pinching an idea or 2 (or 3, or 4…) Just a quick heads up.

Embrace your uniqueness, whatever stage you’re at on your journey, and just do ‘your’ thing. — It’s very true that us designers, especially those of us early in our career, are guilty of looking at that ‘superstar’ designer thinking their work is the greatest thing seen on a digital device, and that our work, and our skills are in some way inferior to theirs. Imposter Syndrome…

If you didn’t already know, a new (kind of) tool is taking the design community by storm; Framer. Going from design, animations and interactions to publishing is blazingly fast, and it’s the one tool that you need to take a good look at. The community that has sprung up around…

So. This Framer thing that’s exploded recently in the design community (especially on Twitter) it’s a new tool, right? Well. No. Not exactly. Framer has been walking amongst us since 2015. When that darling of the UI Design tool world, Sketch, was sitting at the top of the mountain, Framer…

A collection of handy tips to help improve your designs instantly — When creating efficient, accessible, and beautiful UIs, it takes only the smallest tweaks to improve your designs. In this latest article I’ve brought you another selection of easy to put into practice UI & UX micro-tips. …

Handy tips to improve your understanding of Component Props — Component Properties. The best thing to happen to Figma since Figma? After spending nearly two months working with the new Component Properties in Figma and experiencing the pros and cons of working with this significant feature, I’ve compiled a quick list of super-helpful tips for when you start applying them…

Component Props are amazing… when used correctly — Ok. So I’ll not be the first one here to draw your attention to the new features that Figma announced at Config2022. It was back in early May, after all. Figma launched around 15 new features at Config, including improved Auto-Layout (gotta love that Absolute Positioning option), Variable Fonts, and…