Twitter Design

Tools aren't going to make you great designers. Your way of thinking, attention to detail, and ability to see the bigger picture will.

Good design gives you as much competitive leverage as good sales or technology.

It’s amazing that so many product/design teams still fail to understand the following: Over time, your customers/users will conflate “familiarity” with “good design”. And prefer “familiarity” to “good design”.

Good design makes people feel empowered, understood, happy, smart, included. Bad design makes people feel irritated, guilty, insecure, anxious, helpless, dumb. That’s why good design is important.

When you visualize it in your mind and can’t wait to see it in Figma

I don't like telling people how to live their lives, but you should probably learn how to use Figma.

Stranger: So what do you do for a living? Me: I’m a web designer. Stranger: So can you fix my laptop? 🤦‍♂️

when I was young my parents didn’t let me play video games so I would just... draw the UI in my sketch book and play pretend. Overtime I began tweaking the UI into how I thought it ought to work instead—fastforward 15 years thank you tiger mom I’m a designer now lol

Designers are translators. They translate complex information into something easy to consume, understand and access. They translate problems and needs into solutions that are helpful, usable, delightful and empowering and if done well: invisible.

The tough acceptance that 99.9% of users will never notice if a button is 1pt off, even if it keeps you awake at night

Designing footers is the worst thing about web development.

When you have an idea: Immediately make a logo. Build a simple website. Make it real. Give it tangible momentum Skateboard🛹 -> Bike 🚲 -> Car 🚗

Remember when we had the mental energy to hate a new logo?

Indie founders, how did you get your logo? Any logo designer recommendations?

Finally figured out a concise way to sum up my job title 🙃 - part-time product designer - part-time graphic designer - part-time web designer - part-time photographer - part-time storyteller - part-time marketer - part-time copywriter - part-time operations - part-time manager

Dev Twitter is all about React vs Vue. 🧑‍💻 Design Twitter is all about UX vs UI. 💀

How to design almost any UI element. A curated list of 58 articles 👇

UI/UX Tip 💡 Don't use hamburger menus on desktop. They are less noticeable than on mobile. Plus hiding navigation is considered a bad practice. It depends on the case though, but hiding it completely under the hamburger icon is not that great.

Good product design has finally arrived in crypto. I've been waiting for this since 2015.

Should I start a new design speaker series on Clubhouse? Would you tune in?

Being creative is not reserved for specific roles or industries - it’s required for all of them.

It doesn’t matter what design tool you use if it gets the job done. Denigrating people publicly because of the tools they use is immature and reinforces the elitist behavior people often ascribe to the design profession. We can do better.

If your designer isn’t French, is your startup even real?