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Create a Better Slideshow Deck: Use Visual Waypoints
Reusing layouts or styles through a slideshow deck can have many great benefits. Like putting up informative guideposts as you walk your viewers through your presentation. A Familiar but Powerful Concept for Presentations You won’t be completely unfamiliar with this concept. A popular use of it in slide decks is the title slide. Often different…
Read MoreDesign Trick: How to Create a Better Presentation by Reusing Design Elements
A simple way to make better designed and more professional slides? Reuse the same design elements throughout! Sometimes called a motif, once you’ve found a style you like keep applying it. In the example shown here, it’s a colored shape with an angled side. You can see how by using that same shape and color…
Read MoreDesign Answer: How can I learn to build cool websites?
Question: “As an independent front-end developer, how can I learn to design cool websites? I imagine the design in my mind and code it so it becomes bad. I feel that UI design courses learn you how to use the software like XD only, not the cool design itself.” Having a desire and curiosity are…
Read MoreHow to create a logo: What to ask for from a Designer
Logo design can be a true art form. The simplification of a company’s mission into a beautiful and recognizable mark. No small feat! Beginning the project can be exciting, but it’s important to know what to ask for as a deliverable. (Be sure to find plenty of inspiration at you begin!). You want to…
Read MoreDesign Answer: Should resumes, unrelated to design, ever be formatted creatively and graphic design heavy instead of plain and professional?
I would argue that no, a resume should never be graphic design heavy. To use design thinking itself to bolster the argument, what is the purpose of the resume? To relay pertinent information to the recruiter and show your competency. To introduce yourself and your skill set to the reader and land an in person…
Read MoreSimple Design Hack – How to give your layout nice spacing
A simple but critical element to ensuring the layout of your work looks great is spacing. Â One element of spacing that’s easy to measure and has a large impact is the consistency of spacing. Â Do you have the same amount of space: Â Around all elements? Between elements? Within elements? It may feel…
Read MoreCreate better looking work: Proximity
The human eye LOVES order, and you can use this in your work to make your message easier to digest and understand. By keeping pieces of information that are similar, like titles and authors (or subtitles), body copy, contact information etc. together, you lay out a flow and order for your viewer. You’re saying “here…
Read MoreAnswer: What do UX designers just “get” that other people don’t?
Empathy. One of the greatest things a good UX designer taps into is empathy. And this comes out in many ways. Empathy for the end user, the person who will use the product. How can I help them or make their life easier? Empathy for the developers. Can I reorganize my approach here so the…
Read MoreAnswer: What are the best apps to learn graphic design in our smartphone?
See the Answer on Quora Since you’re limited in what you can do on a phone, it seems best to use the format to learn from other designers. Loading yourself up with ideas and methods to put into use for future. I’ll suggest four apps you can use to find inspiration and learn from for…
Read MoreInspiration for Design: How to design better work
A truth of design is that so much of it is the act of inspiration. The act of finding interesting or cool ideas from other designers and mixing that for your own work. Creative ideas so rarely pop into a designers head. Rather they’re inspired from what others are doing and connecting the dots. What’s…
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