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Generate UI with simple text prompts. Copy, paste, ship.

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Why your brand colors aren’t working in digital spaces

Color for brand designers working with product teams

My favourite productivity tools and how I make the most of them.

My productivity stack: apps that run my life

https://open.substack.com/pub/jennychu/p/my-productivity-stack-apps-that-run?r=4jjo8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Ein Anderes Duisburg (“Another Duisburg”) focuses on commemorating Duisburg’s migration history and addressing racism. The web documentary features historical documents, photos, and contemporary witness interviews that illuminate migration experiences, racism, resistance, a

Ein Anderes Duisburg

https://fontsinuse.com/uses/55969/ein-anderes-duisburg

Check out the Design Crit community on Discord - hang out with 24 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

Join the Design Crit Discord Server!

Inclusive Sans is a text font designed for accessibility and readability. It is inspired by the friendly personality of contemporary neo-grotesques while…

Google Fonts on LinkedIn: #googlefonts #fonts #typography #readability

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7108369316462387201/

Unpacking the art of trend forecasting, the reporting of trends, and the translation of ideas from concept to reality, niche to mass, and present to future in fashion retail.

The Thing About Trend Forecasting – Miscellanea Studio

https://www.miscellanea.studio/proof-of-concepts/the-thing-about-trend-forecasting?utm_source=postscv

Excalidraw is a virtual collaborative whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.

Excalidraw — Collaborative whiteboarding made easy

A free, virtual event of marketing and email development keynotes and best practices.

Email Camp 2023: Mission Control

https://hello.mailjet.com/email-camp/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=emailcamp_missioncontrol&utm_campaign=Ted_Goas

Projects and Posts from Nathan Manousos, software designer in Silicon Valley.

Chonky Menu Re-Creation

https://www.nathanmanousos.com/posts/chonky-menu

Inclusive Sans is a text font designed for accessibility and readability. It is inspired by the friendly personality of contemporary neo-grotesques while incorp

Inclusive Sans - Google Fonts

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Inclusive+Sans

How to stay fully booked, without burnout, and even take a maternity leave. How?  Joana Galvao breaks down how she productized her entire business to be able to take a 4 month maternity leave while her team ran the business without her; all while being more profitable, and how you can do the same as a freelance designer.   To follow along with us you can download the workbook here:  https://gifdesignstudios.ac-page.com/thefuturworkshop  The Instagram Guest post that was referenced: https://www.instagram.com/p/CANq9dlFKNR/  Want a deeper dive? Typography, Lettering, Sales & Marketing, Social Media and The Business of Design courses available here: https://thefutur.com/shop  🚀 Futur Accelerator The step-by-step blueprint and coaching program designed to get your creative business off the ground: https://thefutur.com/accelerator  🥇 Futur Pro  The professional creative community designed to grow your personal brand, your business, and your network: https://thefutur.com/pro  ✍️ Other Courses, Templates, and Tools: https://thefutur.com/shop  🎙 The Futur Podcast: https://thefutur.com/podcast  Recommended books, tools, music, resources, typefaces & more:  https://thefutur.com/recommendations  Music by Epidemic Sound: http://share.epidemicsound.com/thefutur  Shorts Playlist:  https://www.youtube.com/@thefutur/shorts  We love getting your letters. Send them here: The Futur c/o Chris Do 1702 Olympic Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90404  *By making a purchase through any of our affiliate links, we receive a very small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps us on our mission to provide quality education to you. Thank you.  — Host: Chris Do Producer: Mark Contreras Cinematographers/Editors: Stewart Schuster, Mark Contreras, MOCS Media Futur Theme Music: Adam Sanborne http://www.adamsanborne.com Typefaces: Futura, DIN, Helvetica Now, Calibre, Knockout, Champion Gothic

Become A Lead Generation Machine (Easy Way To Get More Clients) Masterclass w/ Joana Galvao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl2NEKUCZSg

https://github.com/antonijap/vue-figma-starter

Exploring the design of noteworthy products. Click to read Product Identity, by Itay Dreyfus, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Product Identity | Itay Dreyfus | Substack

https://adplist.org/mentors/jonathon-toon

SUMO #42 • School

seriously haven't heard from you in seven minutes please pick up we're worried about you not a joke please answer now hello?

hello, i love you, won't you pick up your phone???

https://open.substack.com/pub/botharetrue/p/hello-i-love-you-wont-you-pick-up?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=cwj9i

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTrnluaCOCU

Unblock teams and skip the overhead of hiring with staff augmentation.

Forge | Staff Augmentation

https://mixed-soy-97d.notion.site/Design-for-Planet-Knowledge-Hub-8544294479474cdb87b90d6e00cbd4b7

Posted 3:43:54 PM. We’re on an ambitious mission to solve some of society’s toughest challenges — from eradicating…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative hiring Staff Product Designer, Education in Redwood City, California, United States | LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3719955257

https://jobs.lever.co/composer/b450a708-4913-43f5-847c-2a033731d98f

Simon Riisnæs Dagfinrud

Create grids and measure their distance easily.

Grid Ruler

Attended my first Chicago Camps(https://chicagocamps.org) event. High quality, low cost, just the way design conferences should be!

Looking forward to trying this out https://v0.dev

I've noticed that sometimes the notification tab doesn't work even though I've received a new response. If I don't reply to your message, it isn't intentional. 😢 Please let me know!

Brand designers, I have finally finished my article about what to consider when creating color palettes for digital mediums. I hope y'all find this helpful, and I'm always down to answer any questions.

https://tinyurl.com/3vu766rx

I want to build a simple web app, an open source ISBN API thing.

Is anyone interested in collaborating or does anyone know anyone who might care?

oops I feel like the cover photo is a bit of a spoiler but I wrote about my fav productivity tools AND there’s a free Notion template for all you creative ppl 💖

https://open.substack.com/pub/jennychu/p/my-productivity-stack-apps-that-run?r=4jjo8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

My typeface Arbeiter Neue in use! https://fontsinuse.com/uses/55969/ein-anderes-duisburg

❓ Per our analytics, a slight majority of DateStamp users are outside the US (India, then Russia, then Brazil). We're considering expanding our language options to better support these users—anyone have any knowledge or resources on updating date-related terms and fonts for this?

Another week, another daily stand up over in the Design Crit discord. Come tell us what you’ve been up to! - https://discord.gg/FgmYSUMn

As a dyslexic and designer who cares deeply about accessibility (A11y), I love fonts like this but love it even more when it is prioritized and promoted by foundries. This one is gorgeous too. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7108369316462387201/ #a11y #font

my first independent piece of writing, 'The Thing About Trend Forecasting' is now live, on my new website, Miscellanea https://www.miscellanea.studio/proof-of-concepts/the-thing-about-trend-forecasting?utm_source=postscv

Hey Hey SoyKallo Here ✌️, ¿Did you guys know about this tool? Honestly, I loved it. It's simple yet has everything you need to tackle those discovery sessions or brainstorming activities.

https://excalidraw.com

🌱 💌 Email design and climate change are both near and dear to my heart and I'll be speaking about them both at Email Camp on Oct 4-5.

It's a free, virtual event: https://hello.mailjet.com/email-camp/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=emailcamp_missioncontrol&utm_campaign=Ted_Goas

Monday always feels tiring, even if all I've done is check some emails. Have a great week, everyone!

Play with 11 interactive illustrations in my first interactive article.
https://www.nathanmanousos.com/posts/chonky-menu

Google has just incorporated into Fonts a beautiful and inclusive Sans Serif with people with dyslexia

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Inclusive+Sans

If you are a freelancer or an agency (regardless of how well you are doing), go ahead watch this absolute banger from thefutur.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl2NEKUCZSg

In case you are into making Figma plugins I have your back. Vue starter for Figma plugins.

🔗 https://github.com/antonijap/vue-figma-starter

Anyone in NYC interested in a ticket to see Death Cab / The Postal Service this coming Wednesday at MSG? We bought a spare one last year.. 
Ticket is up on stubhub for 80USD but happy to sell for less, I just wouldn’t want it to go to waste 😭 (section 223)

📣 It’s time for me to start a new chapter in life and look for new opportunities.

Looking for a curious, product-minded iOS/macOS developer who loves to craft beautiful apps using Swift and SwiftUI?

Reach out! ✨

What book would you recommend to a designer, who was mostly working on "practical design" the whole life and now wants to learn Branding tricks without getting too basic information for juniors. Is there a book/course that's called "Brand Design for Senior Designers"?

I've been tinkering with writing a publication devoted to product design for a few years.

A few weeks ago I finally launched it. It's called Product Identity.

I strive to write about authentic products.

I invite you to come and join → https://productidentity.substack.com/

Headed to Boston next month - need some recommendations!

Samsung switched one of their laptop products to Type-C instead of Type-A. Now I've been struggling with all my USB cables.

In August I had the honor of mentoring 7 designers. Discussing topics from cultural differences in design to growth experiments. After a short break I am resuming sessions, so if you know anyone looking for guidance I would love to help.

https://adplist.org/mentors/jonathon-toon

If you are looking for inspiration you might be interested in SUMO. 

It's a free monthly newsletter collecting a bunch of cherry-picked links on design, creativity, and culture. And I'm pretty proud of it. 

This month's topic is school. 
↓ 

(subscribe link in the comments)

Funniest thing I read today:
https://open.substack.com/pub/botharetrue/p/hello-i-love-you-wont-you-pick-up?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=cwj9i

I realized that this place was crowded when I was asleep due to the time zone difference. It's great to read your posts while enjoying a cup of joe ;D

i've been scared for years of being judge, of failing and not being able to recover from that. 

i promised myself to ship my very first video on youtube. check it out here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTrnluaCOCU

Off the top of my head: EB Garamond, Space Grotesk/Mono, Anton, Plex Mono, the Instrument fonts though it feels weird to use ’em, Inter with a lil’ negative letter spacing, all-caps Red Hat Display, DotGothic16, Work Sans in 2016 — bonus: Kosugi & Kosugi Maru, Dongle, Jetbrains

I've come to realize that I'll be using this chill and friendly community for a long time, so I've decided to become a supporter. The only thing I need now is an Android app... 🥹

What metaphor can I use for "today" and "yesterday" icons? ⬅️ 📆 ??

🙋‍♂️ What are your favourite help desk / documentation sites and why? Easy to use? Good on mobile? Interesting layout? Unique etc?

(I’m not sure how many people will pick this up so I’d love you to like it and share as I’m trying to get a good sample size 😘)

Hi guys
Can anyone here help me out with the best practice for uploading a project case study to my portfolio?

Need design support? We, Forge Studio, offer staff augmentation for in-house product teams who are stretched thin. If your team needs to fill one or multiple roles, you can learn more at https://buff.ly/3rmz1FK or reach out to hello@forge.is.

Good morning and good evening! Today is Chuseok in Korea, our equivalent of Thanksgiving and a national holiday. Wishing everyone a lovely day!

I'm available to freelance. Digital & brand design. Starting now 

→ https://xaviercusso.com

I was struggling to learn about sustainability and Circular Design due to a lack of knowledge. However, I found this INCREDIBLE hub from the Design Council that might help someone:

https://mixed-soy-97d.notion.site/Design-for-Planet-Knowledge-Hub-8544294479474cdb87b90d6e00cbd4b7

Hey guys is there anyone that has some free minutes (about 10) on them to help me conduct an "ease to use" test? Thank you

I'm hiring a mission driven Senior Staff Product Designer to join the Education team at CZI! If you're excited about bringing more innovation to the EdTech space, let’s chat! ✨👇 https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3719955257

“Accessibility is the goal, inclusion is how to get there”

We’ll be releasing a proper blogging feature in the coming weeks, hold tight!

Job alert! We at Composer are hiring an iOS Dev. Join us or send your friends our way.

https://jobs.lever.co/composer/b450a708-4913-43f5-847c-2a033731d98f

👋 Farewell fintech! Hello edtech! 👨🏻‍🏫

Who are the edtech designers and product builders I should follow or connect with?

https://read.cv/srd Simon has some great work!

My orange pal staring at me for no apparent reason.

This chrome extension has been an absolute life saver ever since I started mostly designing in the browser. Anyone got other recs?

Anyone know any good resources on briefing or working with external copywriters? It’s been a while…

Oh, wow! I didn't expect this update. Do you guys think we can use this as an alternative to X? Now it looks like Bluesky.