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My design agency is finally live at 🚀 P.S. Spots are VERY limited right now - as I want to give my full attention to the projects. Lots of case studies coming soon. A share would be awesome! 🫶🏻
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Here is a tutorial on how to use Color in UI/UX + how to create Color Design Systems Thread 🧵 1/10
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Figma, Framer, Spline (for the last card) combo!
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Design agency - WIP, thoughts?
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List of my favorite fonts: - Anderson Grotesk (Free) for UI/Web/Posts - Clash Display (Free) - for Graphic Design/Posts - Editor's Note (Paid) - for Graphic Design/Posts - Inter (Free) - for UI/Web - Plus Jakarta Sans (Free) for UI/Web - Poppins (Free) for UI/Web Author of
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Big Figma Update 🔥 Now it's possible to create responsive designs right in Figma. So let's do it 📍
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Make it "pop up" more
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Another one, just as part of testing the visuals You see VS what Figma sees. Inspired by @designloomco
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CTA - Footer 🪄
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I'm looking for mid/senior UI/UX Designer to join my team ❤️ If you have vision and can create clean & modern designs - send me your portfolio/dribble link. [Not for Junior or Beginners, Not internship, I need independent, skilled designer]
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Crafted in Figma under 20min. Colorful or B&W? I'd probably go with right one. Btw, if you want to create such cool light effects, check tutorial by @stoitec ->
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As promised, here's the tutorial ✨
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1 year
How to create Button Component using Variables in Figma? Part 1.
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Made this website page without any no-code tool. Simply designed in @figma , added interactive "hover" prototype for button compinent and hit Publish button using @figma_to_web plugin. And yeah, of course - added @splinetool scene from community [thanks to @Aximoris ] using embed.
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I'm Marina 👋🏻 Real Story. That's what I want to share. Not just success results you see everywhere. My journey from 0 till openning my Design Agency. 🧵 1/26
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I’m looking for talents Share your best work in the comments 👇🏻
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Exploring some Visual Directions for a new project with the @seestemagency team
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I use @spline in web design quite sometimes. It's actual, interactive 3D scene. So here is the Spline Tutorial. 🧵 Open the Thread 🎁 Find Files at the end (3 different styles)
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2 years
How to use Typography when you create responsive designs? Should Desktop & Mobile styles be the same? Let's see 👇
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Calendly or Cal? Which bookig tool you prefer as a freelancer/enterpreneur?
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Created a short thread on shadows 🧵 Great Design isn't just visuals. Yet attention to detail should still be top-notch. Good shadows can improve even minimalistic designs.
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One of my Top Performing posts on different social media platforms is here 👇
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Last 3 months Recap📍 [coudn't help - created a design shot for that] - Car trip around Montenegro - Flew to Kazakhstan - Lived 2 months in Almaty - Started running - Got Invisaligners - Applied for Schengen - Started posting on X - Celebrated my 25th birthday in nature - Moved
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Not magic, just technique Duplicate Component -> Use Skew Plugin -> place inside mockup.
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Designed in Figma using simple shapes, linear gradient and skew plugin -> exported to Framer -> added hover state by simply moving elements aroung.
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3k followers 🫶🏻 I arrived a bit later on X, and within last month started to post here regularly. (I was mostly active on Instagram last years and build there 100k audience) Really glad to see the progress and meet new like-minded people here. X is a good space to find great
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Just few tweaks. Yet few tweaks can change a lot. Onboarding screen for Sunny People Project.
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Celebrating my 25th year today ✨ How it started: thunder roaring, windows rattling, power out, only flickering candlelight, bats flying in maternity hospital in a small city/village. How it’s going: building my design agency, teaching students worldwide, earning good money
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3h after launch - already 3 clients booked a call for tomorrow 🫶🏻
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4 basics you must nail to become a better designer: - color - typography - layout - spacing Even text-only page can look stunning, if you do it right.
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New Technique. How I create a Button Component for my Design Systems. Easy to maintain and update 👇
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Responsive - right in Figma 🔥
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Side note: for web design projects you won't need complex systems. Yet for big apps and dashboard - that's the bare minimum.
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UI/UX for Playtrade at
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1 year
With Figma Update came Variables: native Figma tokens 🔥 Let's take a quick overview:
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Thank you, Figma
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Checkboxes Interaction with some magic 😁✨ Just crafted these in Figma in about 10min. Should I create a tutorial?
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My 10 steps of UI/UX Design Process Step 10 isn’t finish though. UI/UX design is never finished ;) Product design is an ongoing process that requires constant maintenance.
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I'm checking your portfolios in the Free Time for UI/UX Designers position 🙌 I'll keep you posted regarding the process ✨
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There are 2 type of designer Simple mockps or 3D scenes?
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These are the basics. I've created more in-depth Practical & Theoretical lessons in UI Design & Systems course at
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While you see a big picture of success everywhere on X Everything is actually done through small steps and tasks There is no magic and no “one big move”
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I have One. Big. Plan. Agency - just part of it. Just one of the steps. Yet even that one step has bunch of tiny steps. My plan includes: agency, education, content creation, YouTube, design assets, templates… all interconnected and related. Yet it’s impossible to handle
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Updating website for UI Design Systems Mastery ebook 💃 Love the process & results. Plan to cover all of these in the upcoming Web Design Crash course 🔥
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Solo traveling is never solo, meeting so many people on the way. Today Spending the last days in Barcelona. Love it! Tomorrow heading to Madrid for 4-5 days.
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It’s good to know that none of comments like “what devs will say”, “devs will hate you” will ever bother me. Since I can do my websites - myself 🤷🏻‍♀️ Used Wordpress before, now @framer 🫡
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Before -> After Website ReDesign Changing copywriting, logic, structure, UI & UX.
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2 years
You don't have to create dark mode manually, did you know that? 👀 PRO designers and big companies use this technique with tokens, as it allows them to automatically scale, update and create many themes! Developers love it🔥
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Part 2 for the post about creating Button Components in Figma 📚 Let's build Style Components on top of Master components [check previous post]
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At times, I feel like I haven’t achieved much. As all of us. Remind yourself of how far you’ve come from 0.
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Had 2 calls today: 1 from Linkedin - Saas, Dashboard redesign 1 from Instagram - Several projects, been on a call for 1,5h - and completely happy about it 2 calls tomorrow 1 Call on Monday 1 on Wednesday So good to realise that none of my calls are about selling. Just
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1 year
Create Isometric Box in Figma to showcase products. Link to Figma file:
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Can’t hold my tears. Barcelona is so beautiful… Architecture, trees, clean and neat, so many beautiful places. I plan to create meetings in every city I’ll be during this month - so that creatives can connect with each other 🫂 I created telegram group for that:
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I’m coming back from 3-weeks car trip to Montenegro. It’s been amazing. Freedom. Adventure. You get a chance to see as many spots and places as possible and compare. You meet people in camps. It’s so much different than living in hotels. I plan to share all itinerary, apps,
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Left or right? 1st - just image scroll 2d - video from the website with all interactive animations
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2 years
Animation on Hover Tutorial 🔥 Done in Figma 🚀
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I will share updates in regards to hiring UI/UX designers starting next week. Meanwhile What do you want me to share the most? 👇🏻
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Main client red flag to avoid: Bargaining, cutting the price, and saying "I can do it myself for such budget" Share yours.
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Interactive Parallax Website - breakdown. Tools: Spline & Framer. Files:
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2 years
Let's create cards in Figma using Auto-Layout 🔥 I use predefined typography and color styles, which are part of a design system. It saves you so much time. I talk about that in my ebook, link in bio ❤️ Meanwhile, check out the tutorial👇
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Fluid Grid. Step-by-step Figma tutorial.
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Naming layers doesn't matter Proper system doesn't matter Auto-layout doesn't matter Just wait until you start building a huge project and you'll spend all your time and energy fixing your mistakes Key point: if project scales, without clean set up everything will become a
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1 year
Should You use Bento Grids in UI/UX?
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Best steps to spoil your morning: - open social media before your eyes open - scroll - be led by others thought & pictures - never journal - don’t plan - don’t save space to learn And finally: - don’t take time from the routine of the movement to reflect on the meaning of the
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Giveaway 🔥 Course & eBook absolutely for FREE 💎 I want to share and gift my "UI design & Systems" course and "UI Design Systems mastery" ebook. 3 Winners will be chosen randomly on November 10. Terms: follow & fill out form - link in BIO.
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My Saturday morning vibes in the hometown
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I checked all comments & scanned 100+ portfolios. Saved about 8 candidates. Will reqch out tomorrow to chat. will keep you posted 🙌🏻
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Bonjour, merci, croissant
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Happy Birthday to my MOM ♥️ The person who actually had a tough moments & life, and stayed strong & optimistic. She deserves a lot. And I will make all of that come true. One of my goals is to make her finally comfortable, so she can quit her job. And travel the world.
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Motion.ed - great website that showcase the power of UI/UX animation. Here you can actually learn motion in interactive way. Follow @marina_uiux for more 🫶🏻 #uiux #designtrends #motiondesign #designtips
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Please send links in the comments, thank you ❤️ There are 2 positions: full-time UI/UX designer [5d a week, daily aligning calls, all tasks in Jira, 1 project ] part-time
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Really - it’s not about talent. It’s about nature/temper. It’s about discipline. It’s about values and goals. It’s about moderation. It’s about resilience. It’s about the willingness to learn and grow. It’s about consistency and small daily actions that align with your
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My Top travel destinations for young people with no money: - work - work - work …
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50k on Instagram 🎉 I'm so grateful 🙏
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Created custom cursor for "work shots" hover effect. Maybe it's a bit too much for this case.
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Design and publish websites without leaving Figma! No code, no extra tools required. Use “FIGMA TO WEBSITE” plugin 🔥 Al lFigma features supported: - Autolayout - Components and variants - Interactions (Prototype) - Variables - Animations... Find in Figma Community
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I got a Shengen! 🛫 But only for October 2 - November 7. I have no plan yet, no tickets, no booked hotels.. But 1st - I must enter Spain, then I think to visit Germany & Poland - that’s for sure. Opened to recommendations! Will also be happy to meet!
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Some Updated Versions for the Header Section of a website I'm working on. The goal is to keep it close to other pages colors. Which one you'd prefer?
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Trello or Notion for clients and projects management?
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Steal My Style 👇
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+1,5k people here in 14 days 🫶🏻 So now it’s already 4.3k 🫂 Just one last educational thread brought about 800 people. Quality. Not quantity. Will keep most performing content in highlights for you 🙌🏻
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Padding. Margin, Baseline Grid, Keylines, Container... What do all these spacing terms mean? And how do they look in actual UI design? Let's see 👇
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In detail vs what you see
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Some small, yet visible tweaks - create a bit differenet style and feeling. Which one would you go with?
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With any attention - comes bad attention. So funny that I receive negative comments from man mostly 😁 Luckily, I’ve grown my Instagram account to ~100k, and know how to handle that. Simply - not to care.
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Create this cool panel in Figma in 10 sec. And use it in your projects 🔥 There are many ways to play around this effect - add some playfulness & use your creativity. Figma file link:
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Interactive 3D Glass Cube following the cursor movements. Files 👇🏻 Spline: Framer: Figma: I designed simple wireframe in Figma, using plugin copied it into Framer - where I also added embed from Spline.
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Design isn’t just about aesthetics. Businesses seek design solutions to connect with customers. And Your design choices can bridge that gap. 📚 Learn more in “UI Design & Systems” course. 🔗 Link in my BIO
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I started creating & sharing design concepts. Just for fun. Just because I liked it. 1st two works I did & animated in Figma after ~4 days youtube scrolling. Designwise - it's not even a website TBH. 😁 But for 4 days - I was proud of myself. 6/26
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Get ahead of the game with the top keywords for ChatGPT: ✍️ Write ℹ️ Explain 📜 List 📈 Analyze 👩‍🎨 Design 🧠 Brainstorm 🧙🏻‍♀️ Act as a <insert anything here> 💥 Rephrase and iterate
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Number one thing that I’m constantly doing nowadays: 🔨Build processes ⚖️ Validate ⚒️ Build again ⚖️ Validate 🔨 Improve
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Here is how I'm testing and analyzing website performance using Clatiry. I can even see sessions recordings -> complete user journey on the website, as well as device, country, source etc. Then I can fix and improve website based not on assumptions but on real data.
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Cooking some small details for the website
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