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FreshStock
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Usability.gov
Information Architecture Basics
2 min · · Information architecture (IA) focuses on organizing, structuring, and labeling content in an effective and sustainable way. The goal is to help users find information and complete tasks. To do this,… · Shared by 14, including Bill Slawski ⚓ 🇺🇦
userzoom.com
How to create a UX research plan
7 min · · Elizabeth Chesters takes you on a detailed journey of the DECIDE framework. Research shapes everything in a business. The product, the target market, the future goals. And how we do our research… · Shared by 8, including Stef Walter
Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)
What is Design Thinking and Why Is It So Popular?
13+ min · · Design Thinking is not an exclusive property of designers—all great innovators in literature, art, music, science, engineering, and business have practiced it. So, why call it Design Thinking? What’s special about Design Thinking is that designers’ work processes can help us systematically extract, teach, learn and apply these human-centred techniques to solve problems in a creative and innovative way — in our designs, in our businesses, in our countries, in our lives. Some of the world’s leadi · Shared by 91, including Stefan Diepolder, Chris Agro | Agrotising, Justin Mifsud, Johannes Lenz, Tanner Chapman, Mark Kaigwa, Jakub Ferenc, Paul Sturrock, UX Mastery, Christian P. Stobbe, ilaria defilippo
UX Collective
How to incorporate content design into your design system
12+ min · · Looking to create a truly amazing and useful design system? Read on. · Shared by 9
blush.design
Blush, Illustrations for Everyone
2 min · · Create, mix, and customize illustrations made by artists around the world. · Shared by 138, including mitimiti, Andrew Wilkinson, Oscar MacDonald, Rick Ramos, Jonathan Kogan, Pablo Stanley, Ines Bieler, Jess 🇺🇦, Mike Taylor, Sara Soueidan, mastodon.social/@renestalder, Kevin Marks 🏠kevinmarks.com xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks, Stef Walter, Alain, Niklaus Gerber, Meng To, Sachin Gawas, InterfaceLovers, Benoist Lawniczak, Aarron Walter
designsystemsforfigma.com
Design Systems For Figma
4 min · · A collection of Design Systems for Figma from all over the globe. · Shared by 41, including Mohamed Azazy, Chris R Becker, Marius Bleuer, Matt, Stef Walter, Adham Dannaway
designsystemsforfigma.com
Design Systems For Figma: Bringing Context To Design Systems
5 min · · Hayley Hughes, UX Manager working on the Polaris Design System at Shopify discusses the importance of context in working on design systems. · Shared by 13, including Gabriele
Stripe
Designing accessible color systems
9 min · · How we designed a color system with hand-picked, vibrant colors that also met standards for accessibility and contrast. · Shared by 650, including Kevin M. Hoffman, HeyDesigner, Women Who Code, Trent Walton, Max Stoiber, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Helmi, Jonathan Hassell, Veerle Pieters, Simeon | @dotproto@toot.cafe, Stu Collett, Paul Irish, BrendanEich, Dominik Grolimund, maggiefox 🇺🇦, Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane, Gabriele, Casey Smith, Val Head, Una 🇺🇦
InVision
6 ways you can make your design more inclusive and equitable
4 min · · Learn how to implement Designing for Diversity (D4D), a codified methodology that helps illuminate blind spots around cultural and racial biases, into your creative processes. · Shared by 7
thecreativeindependent.com
How to begin designing for diversity
12+ min · · A guide to get you started in building equitable products, services, and content, written by Project Inkblot with illustrations by Fanny Luor. · Shared by 19, including Stef Walter, Joelle Emerson, The Creative Independent
baymard.com
Readability: the Optimal Line Length
13+ min · · Having the right amount of characters on each line is key to the readability of your text. It shouldn’t merely be your design that dictates the width of your text, it should also be a matter of… · Shared by 300, including Esther Schindler, Dennis Lembrée, Stef Walter, Jonas Hartmann, Steven Sinofsky, CSS Weekly, Caroline Jarrett, Ross Hudgens, Gabriele
UX Planet
Designing Emotional UI
8 min · · Emotions play a massive role in our life. People are both rational and emotional. And when it comes to digital products, many people want… · Shared by 156, including KOstas, Nick Babich, George Waititu
It's Nice That
Pentagram’s Natasha Jen rebrands Esprit, turning its logo into a stencil typeface
· The designer and her team have redesigned the fashion brand’s visual identity to reinvigorate the vibrancy of its 60s beginnings. · Shared by 40, including tcherno
Creative Bloq
45 free retro fonts
8 min · · Add age, texture and depth to your designs with this compilation of retro fonts – and they won't cost you a penny. · Shared by 92, including Marius Bleuer
InVision
37 business concepts every designer needs to know
11+ min · · If you understand the basics of the business model and strategies in which you’re working, you’ll be able to spend less time explaining the value of design, more time actually designing, and increase… · Shared by 117, including Aarron Walter, Johannes Dornisch, Sachin Gawas, Niklaus Gerber