11 practical tips for freelance designers

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 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 ...
Tricks and Tricks: Layout Elements in Figma

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

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

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

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

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 ...
Pictogram design

Pictogram design

 Design Pictogram design A few tips from The Noun Project, a large collection of pictograms and symbols. The peculiarity of the service is that everyone can add a pictogram that one way or another met in an urban environment. But how do you recognize a good pictogram from a bad ...

Colors, fonts and kerning

 Design Colors, fonts and kerning The method.ac website has released a small series of very useful utilities that will allow you to test your color perception, perception of the shape of letters and kerning in words. It will be very useful and interesting for those who are just starting the ...