A collection of 18 tips to help improve your designs.
When creating efficient and beautiful UIs for your next project, sometimes it takes only minor adjustments to help quickly improve the designs you’re trying to make.
Just simple tweaks are sometimes all it takes to produce something that your clients, users, and yourself are delighted with.
In this article, I’ve put together a collection of my most popular UI & UX tips from the past few months that can, with little effort, help improve both your designs and the overall user experience.
Quick Note: You can check out Volume One of the UI & UX Tips Collection here.
Let’s dive…
A collection of handy tips to help improve your designs instantly.
When creating practical, accessible, and gorgeous UIs, it takes only the tiniest tweaks to improve your designs.
In this follow-up article, I’ve brought you another selection of easy to put into practice UI & UX micro-tips.
Tips that can, with little effort, help improve both your designs and the user experience.
Quick Note: Want even more UI & UX Micro-Tips? Then check out my previous articles here, here, and here.
Let’s dive on in…
1. Be consistent with your design elements.
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 follow-up article I’ve brought you another selection of easy to put into practice UI & UX micro-tips.
Tips that can, with little effort, help improve both your designs, and the user experience.
Quick Note: Want even more UI & UX Micro-Tips? Then check out my previous articles here and here.
Let’s dive on in…
1. Want to speak in a more informal tone? Try going all lowercase.
Getting started building your own system.
Do you like staring at a blank canvas every time you start a new project in Figma?
I’m guessing you’re not a big fan right?
Wouldn’t it be better if you could kick-start your design projects faster, and save yourself so much time?
Well. This is where a Design System can come to your assistance.
So, what is a Design System you may ask?
In its most basic form, I like to think of it as a Component Library and Style Guide rolled into one.
Something which enables you to have those core UI elements pre-built, ready to go, allowing…
A collection of 6 amazing tips to help improve your designs instantly
When creating efficient, accessible, and beautiful UIs for your projects sometimes it takes only the smallest of adjustments to help quickly improve the designs you’re trying to create.
In this follow-up article I’ve put together another selection of easy to put into practice micro-tips that can, with little effort, help improve both your designs, and the user experience.
Quick Note: Want even more UI & UX Micro-Tips? Then check out my previous article here.
Let’s dive on in…
1. Use established icons in your UIs to avoid confusion for the user.
A collection of 6 amazing tips to help improve your designs instantly.
When creating efficient, and beautiful UIs for your next project sometimes it takes only the smallest adjustments to help quickly improve the designs you’re trying to create.
Just simple tweaks is sometimes all it takes to produce something that your clients, users, and yourself are truly happy with.
In this article I’ve put together a small, and easy to put into practice selection of micro-tips that can, with little effort, help improve both your designs, and the user experience.
Quick Note: Want even more UI & UX Micro-Tips? Then check out my previous article here.
Let’s dive on in…
1. It’s perfectly OK to use purely decorative elements from time to time.
A collection of Figma resources all in one place.
Originally published at marcandrew.me
Oh, Figma! What an amazing design tool you’ve become.
A tool that keeps on impressing with each new release and one that I’ve become very fond of over the past few years.
I really commend what the team at Figma have accomplished these past 5 years and have created something with its own identity and willing to try different things against other tools on the market, and in the majority of cases doing them much better.
Over the past few years, I’ve come across many Plugins, Tutorials, Tips and more… that I feel can definitely help…
A collection of simple tips to help improve your design workflow in Figma.
Originally published at marcandrew.me
In this article I’ve compiled a handful of quick, and easy tips to help speed up your design workflow when working in Figma.
Most of these tips are perfect for when you’re working with design systems or large design files, but they’re also equally suited to just general day, to day usage when working inside of Figma.
Some you may use already, but hopefully you may find the odd undiscovered gem in here too.
Let’s dive on in…
1. Use Math in the Inspector. Save your brainpower for more important stuff.
Don’t waste your time trying to resize elements manually to find that correct measurement.
Just use Math in…
A collection of 34 tips to help improve your designs instantly.
Originally published at marcandrew.me on November 19th, 2020.
Creating beautiful, but also practical UIs takes time, with a lengthy amount of design revisions along the way. I know. I’ve been there before.
But what I’ve discovered over the years is that by making just a few simple, and quick adjustments to your designs you can improve the end-result massively.
In this guide I’ve put together a collection of my popular UI & UX tips from the past 12 months that can, with little effort, help improve both your designs, and the overall user experience.
Let’s dive on in…
1. Make your elements appear more defined with a subtle border.
A small selection of tips to help you keep those large Sketch files in great shape.
In this article I hope to bring you a few valuable tips for when you’re building a Design System, or working with any large file in Sketch for that matter.
The tips compiled below I’ve used frequently myself, and I’m sure they’ll also help you in producing cleaner Sketch files, as well as improving your workflow considerably.
Let’s dive on in…
1. Rename, and organise those Layers often. Your sanity will thank you.
When you’re building your own System it really does pay to name your Layers as you go.
With an-all singing, all-dancing System, with its many Text Layers, Symbols and more… You’re guaranteed to end up with a ridiculous number…
