2 design lectures

Design 2 design lectures 2 lectures that will be useful for beginners and advanced designers. Nikita Mikheenkov – “Development of a designer” Lecture on the development of a designer: about self-education and your own plan that will lead to a profession and work. Specializations, possible places of work, ways to ...

How to understand that you have reached the desired level of project quality and stop

You can always do better. But in most cases, 80% quality is enough. … I was asked a reasonable question: how to understand that you have reached these 80%? If I write a post, then 80% of the quality comes when I conveyed my thought and structured the presentation in ...

11 practical tips for freelance designers

Robert Mayer, in his Medium article, has compiled a list of some of the things you need to know if you want to make the most of and improve your freelance lifestyle. 1. Find your niche You cannot be an expert at everything: to create something outstanding, you need to ...

Tricks and Tricks: Layout Elements in Figma

Tricks to make life easier for you and your front-end or QA. And most importantly, it will reduce the number of inconsistencies between layout and design. Problem Probably few people noticed, but if you go to Figma with “can view” rights and hover over an element that does not have ...

Prims and Chips. Layout of elements in Figma

Tricks to make life easier for you and your front-end or QA. And most importantly, it will reduce the number of inconsistencies between layout and design. Problem Probably few people noticed, but if you go to Figma with “can view” rights and hover over an element that does not have ...

The 10-20-30 rule

Lesson The 10-20-30 rule The 10-20-30 rule was invented by Guy Kawasaki, a successful Apple employee and author of many works related to presentations. So, below is a complete and accurate description of the 10-20-30 rule, which should always be used in a presentation if you want to be successful ...

Number or label?

Design Number or label? In fact, it depends not only on the artistic instinct of the author, but also on purely utilitarian things: Numbering is preferred: If the sequence of items is strictly defined: steps in the process that follow one after the other are listed, or items are listed ...

Talking headlines

Design Talking headlines As it was sung in the famous song: “Where does the homeland begin …”, and if you put it into the language of presentations and think, where does the slide really begin with? What is the first thing the audience sees and how does this affect the ...

Typographic portrait

Typography Typographic portrait Found some interesting verbal portraits (or as they are also called typographic portraits), which are made from words and phrases related to a particular person. In meaning, it resembles the usual tag cloud, however, which makes up a portrait. For example, Steve Jobs – the work is ...

How to create a typographic portrait

Lesson How to create a typographic portrait Earlier on the site, a user Astro published typographic portraits that many liked: Today I am publishing a tutorial that will tell you about one of the possible techniques for creating such a portrait. Preparing in Photoshop For example, let’s take a photo ...