9 essential design books

Book 9 essential design books We have compiled a list of books that we recommend to read for everyone involved in design. By the way, some of these books were collected by the guys from the @dbooks telegram channel – you can read them for free 🙂 The World of ...

How to create a great app icon

Design How to create a great app icon Translation of an article from the studio Gapsy “How to Design a Great App Icon” about tips, rules and principles that should be followed when developing another icon for a mobile application. Did you know about this shocking fact? Users now spend ...

How to get the first orders in design when there is no portfolio and experience

Design How to get the first orders in design when there is no portfolio and experience How to find the first clients? This is one of the most popular questions that aspiring designers ask me. And this question is absolutely logical, because it worried me too, when I was just ...

How to design a case on Behance: 8 practical tips for beginners

Design How to design a case on Behance: 8 practical tips for beginners Translation of the article “How To Build a Better Behance Case Study ?»About how to correctly arrange a case for Behance: from thinking through the structure to designing the cover. After 3 years of being a part ...

6 tips for budding designers

What does it mean to be a designer in 2021? Roughly speaking, the main task of the designer is to convey information to the viewer or reader using an image. Graphic designers find themselves in marketing, various fields related to technology, art. And everywhere they do about the same thing. ...

10 prototyping tools for designers in 2021

An interactive prototype is the best way to demonstrate to the customer and the team the idea of ​​user interaction with the interface. Collected 10 of the best tools to help UI / UX designers develop the perfect interactive interface prototype. Adobe XD Adobe XD is one of the most ...

Dribbble by the numbers

Design Dribbble by the numbers The design community has already said a lot about dribble and how you can upgrade your account. But all articles are limited to the usual thesis, with no facts or statistics to check. I wondered if these theses work and how you can upgrade your ...

Creating complex variable components in Figma

When I started tinkering with variants containing many properties, I realized that a project could grow exponentially more complex. With the help of my team, I was able to narrow the scope of the component being created and test it thoroughly. This article is for designers who have a basic ...

How I programmatically created 256 new design system components in Figma

Design-system Uber Base offers a set map marker componentswhich are widely used in our products and are displayed whenever we show the card to the user. Recently, we were faced with the need to show additional context and decided to add badges for this – an existing base component. The ...