How to train your designer eye & develop your design skills - my new course on
@udemy
!
Learn how to
โ get inspired by the world around you
โ collect design inspiration
โ analyze UI designs
โ practice & experiment
Enroll for 12.99 EUR (launch sale)
๐ I wrote an article about my favorite UI design books.
Iโm originally a designer with a strong focus on research / UX design.
Adding UI design to my skillset has been one of my professional goals since 2017.
These are the UI design books I really appreciate: ๐
Design Spells new site is ๐ฅ
A great showcase of little UI details that make a big difference: microinteractions, easter eggs and more.
By
@designspells_
I posted my 1st lesson in the
@10x_designers
community, it's a 20-min video about training your designer eye, noticing good and bad design & how to get inspired by the world around us. In the next part, I'll talk about getting inspired by digital solutions.
Watch my lesson here๐
My book, The 100-Day Long UX Visual Library Building Challenge has been published!
What started as a 100-day long newsletter chain back in 2017 is now available both in ebook-format (in my Lemonsqueezy store, on a pay-what-you-want basis) or in paperback format (via amazon).
I published my 2nd lesson inside the
@10x_designers
community: it is about how to train your designer eye: how to collect design inpiration, and what you should collect.
My Sketching for UX Designers Workbook has been (re)published!
Download it for free:
While it is a free resource, you can support my work by paying a couple of dollars - I'd really appreciate it!๐
#workbook
#uxsketching
#sketchingforux
#uxdesign
I created a Framer Study Guide to help designers who want to learn this awesome no-code tool.
My curation includes courses, tutorials, design systems, templates and more.
Thanks for publishing it
@uxplanet
@101babich
!
Some highlights๐
#framer
#webdesign
#uidesign
Iโm working on the final touches of my 100-day long UX Visual Library Building Challenge book.
Itโll be available as a pay-what-you-want (free) e-book & youโll be able to order it from Amazon, too.
I designed the book inside Figma, it was a great experience!
#sketchingforux
@nicolefranq
:) and as others mentioned, inspiration websites like mobbin, I also use the
@usemuzli
chrome plugin, and I read a lot of articles. (and the most used non-designrelated is google)
I added 13 new resources to my StartHereDesigner design resource database, now there are 486 resources in 19 categories๐ค
Here are the highlights of the new additions ๐
@LukeW
's just finished his talk, "How AI Ate my Website" at the Design & UX
@smashingconf
.
Luke's been creating content for 27 years, e.g. 2012 articles.
He created an experience that let's you ask questions from AI that has been fed with this data. ๐งต
My 2nd live sketchnote at
@webexpo
- Caroline Jarrett's book 'Forms that work' was the second UX book I read (around 12 years ago), it fundamentally shaped the way I think about user interfaces. So I was really excited about her talk ๐
@cjforms
#sketchingforux
#forms
#ux
My newest UX Knowledge Base Sketch is about Metrics, the 5th part of the Quantitative Research series. Here you can check out this and the previous ones in high resolution (+ useful links & recommended reading):
#ux
#sketchingforux
#sketching
#analytics
First live sketchnote of Design & UX
@smashingconf
: Design System Traps & Pitfalls by
@molly_hellmuth
Molly shared the most common mistakes she experienced during her courses, and answered many-many questions from the audience with
@vitalyf
Excited to join
@10x_designers
as a mentor! I'll be teaching UX research & design (and at the same time, I have been learning lot from other members, e.g. visual design, Framer, motion design)
Join the 10X design community here, let's learn together:
New week, new mentor introduction! Welcome
@krisztaszerovay
, a UX designer from Hungary who will teach the community UX Research and ideation techniques.โจ
Her first lesson "How to train your designer eye"
will be available in early March.๐
The 52nd weekly UX Knowledge Base Sketch is about the most important ways of using sketching in a design process. Download it from the in high-resolution, print it out & use it as a reminder & an inspirational poster in your office! :)
#ux
#sketchingforux
My newest UX sketch is about The Decoy Effect:
โ[โฆ] when we are choosing between two alternatives, the addition of a third, less attractive option (the decoy) can influence our perception of the original two choices.โ (The Decision Lab)
#uxdesign
#sketchingforux
#decoyeffect
Designing a digital product/service requires defining datatypes and their relationships. In my newest UX Knowledge Base Sketch, I explain why Data Modeling is important and what Conceptual Models are.
#ux
#uxsketch
#sketchingforux
#uxdesign
#datamodeling
Our Person of the Week is a UX designer, visual thinker, teacher, and mentor. Please give a warm round of applause for... Krisztina Szerovay!
Thank you for everything you do for the design community, dear
@krisztaszerovay
!
#smashingcommunity
As I recently mentioned, Iโm originally a designer who has a strong focus on research and UX design, so learning about typography is a constant, yet very enjoyable challenge for me.
I created a Typography Study Guide for UX Designers to provide a good starting point๐
Just like last week, I updated the database of my favorite design resources, โ 21 new resources have been added, some highlights ๐
#uxdesign
#uidesign
#visualthinking
Epic milestone reached: this is my ๐ฏth UX Knowledge Base Sketch! It describes a design workflow (not THE design workflow โ there is no one right way of doing this!). You can check out all the 100 sketches here in high resolution:
#uxdesign
#sketchingforux
I've just published my newest lesson inside the
@10x_designers
community, it is the final part of the How to train your designer eyes series, and it is about experimenting with existing designs and practicing UI design.
#10Xdesigners
#uidesign
I finished all the recording & editing for my upcoming Udemy course, How to train your designer eye.
If you take my course, you'll learn how to train your designer eye, how to collect, analyze and practice designing user flows, layouts and UIย elements. ๐งต
Curious about design systems but don't know where to start?
Whether you're about to build your first design system or just curious about them, our new 4- part course, "Introduction to Design Systems," will provide guidance, real-world applications, and tools to help you make the
Understanding the evolution of product development processes is essential, my sketch outlines the main approaches
In reality, a process is always a mix of these approaches. But understanding the benefits & the shortcomings of each'll help you establish good practices
#uxdesign
How to find the perfect balance in UI design?
My new sketch is aboout how to remove / hide everything thatโs just noise at a given point of the user flow, and how to keep / display all the content and functionality thatโs needed.
#uidesign
#decluttering
#sketchingforux
#ux
I'll surely add this new design tool collection to my own design resource database, :) Great work
@uitoolz1
!
I'm planning to move my database from Notion to my own website, sites like these are very inspirational!๐
#designresource
#designtool
The Gorgeous UI Design course by
@pablostanley
&
@togeeether
got a new section: design principles.
I've never seen these explained in such an entertaining way, e.g. Pablo used the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to explain Hick's law, how awesome is that?!
I love the design knowledge shared at
@webexpo
, but what I love even more is the opportunity to meet like-minded professionals.
We talked about publishing online courses and creating posts on social media :)
@vitalyf
@RowdyRabouw
@nathanacurtis
@dawntraoz
@101babich
Thanks for sharing my sketch Nick!
It is the 100th UX Knowledge Base Sketch, it is basically a table of contents for all the other 99 sketches:
๐จBrand new UI design course: Master Gorgeous UI Design by
@pablostanley
& his team
โจ Short videos (great sense of humor + quality design advice)
โจ Practice activities (follow along with Pablo)
โจ Updated weekly
โจ Community
โจ Live events
Enroll here:
My latest UX Knowledge Base Sketch series is about Journey Mapping. It is such a versatile design tool with a wide range of uses! Here you can check out the sketches in high-resolution: &
#ux
#uxdesign
#servicedesign
#productdesign
@MobbinDesign
Their look is similar to Metro UI's tiles, but their purpuse is selecting one or more options, so maybe I'd combine these two things and call them "tile selector"
This is the 2nd part of the Design System series
& This is the 78th UX Knowledge Base Sketch, it means that I've started creating these sketches 1.5 years ago!
1st part:
2nd part:
#ux
#sketchingforux
#uxknowledgebase
#designsystem
Her design process in enterprise UX looks like this:
- Complexity: How am I supposed to design that?
- Analysis: Making sense of this complexity
- Research: Finding & understanding the puzzle pieces
- Solution design: Eventually, everything clicks into place
My newest sketch is about a method called the 6 Thinking Hats by
@Edward_deBono
I believe that it can make your design process & your design workshops more effective!
Here is a little intro to this thinking strategy ๐งต๐
#uxdesign
#sixthinkinghats
#sketchingforux
The next talk I sketchnoted is The Invisible Power of UI Typography by
@glyphe
at the Design & UX Conf
@smashingconf
@vitalyf
To the user, the UI is the product, and a big part of it is text.
How can you make type work for you? ๐งต
@fabriciot
, founder of
@uxdesigncc
delivered a talk packed with insights and ideas at the Design and UX
@smashingconf
, here is an attempt to summarize his key points. ๐งต
This is going to be an exciting week at
@10x_designers
, on Thursday I'm going to publish my second lesson inside the community๐คIt is about collecting design inspiration.
Join me on this learning journey here:
Another packed week on 10X! โจ
We'll have a talk about designing maps for events, learn how to use
@midjourney
as inspiration for UI design, have a live workshop hosted by our friends from
@Threads
and more...
Check out my newest article: I explain responsive design (& other related terms, e.g. fixed layout, fluidity & adaptivity, containers) by using sketches & a card-based layout featuring my childhood dog :)
#uxdesign
#sketchingforux
#FrontEnd
#responsivity
One of the best things ever happened to me in my professional life as a designer is being a part of the
@10x_designers
community.
After its soft launch last December, tomorrow it's going to launch on Product Hunt!
Get notified:
My newest lesson inside
@10x_designers
is about analyzing UI designs: what aspects you should pay attention to, my favorite resources, and a lot of examples e.g. from Booking and Wise.
#uidesign
#ui
#figma
๐ก Table of Contents โ UX Knowledge Base, by
@krisztaszerovay
I was blown away when I first saw Krisztina's fantastic article where she summarises important topics by her unique sketch notes.
Definitely worth bookmarking ๐
Using design inspiration seems to be an obvious activity, but there are a lot of things that can make it more effective, my advice:
E.g. choosing the right tool/method is key, currently my favorite is
@eagle_app
#ux
#sketchingforux
#designinspiration
#ui
Nice to see my almost 5-year old sketch getting some love, thanks so much for sharing
@101babich
- this sketch is part of my qualitative research series, check out the other ones on the website!
UX Metrics overview
Excellent summary of UX metrics, indicators that show whether your product design strategy is working or not.
๐ท:
@krisztaszerovay