In Product Design, and Possibly Life Management

The Most Important Rule in UX Design that Everyone Breaks

https://blog.prototypr.io/the-most-important-rule-in-ux-design-that-everyone-breaks-1c1cb188931

Atomize is an advanced UI design framework for Figma. It helps designers create visually appealing and consistent user interfaces for the web.

Atomize Design System

Qualcomm Ad - Things Change with Justin Long (The "I'm a Mac guy")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYJT4zo_Xrk

Improve your front-end skills by building real projects. Solve real-world HTML, CSS and JavaScript challenges whilst working to professional designs.

Frontend Mentor | Front-end coding challenges using a real-life workflow

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Today we have some important news to share: the Pixelmator Team plans to join Apple.

A new home for Pixelmator - Pixelmator Blog

https://www.pixelmator.com/blog/2024/11/01/a-new-home-for-pixelmator/

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Bear is a beautiful, powerfully simple Markdown note taking app to capture, write, and organize your life.

Bear

A free yet powerful online vector graphics editor for designers

Provector | Online Vector Graphic Editor

Hint: V isn’t for viable — it’s for valuable

MVP is Over. You Need to Think About MVE.

A question we should always ask ourselves is: who are you building for? Are you doing it for your stakeholders, or are you really designing for people? This question became even more relevant to me when I started reading "Ruined by Design" by Mike Monteiro.

The truth is that I find it funny how many are getting into the world of experience design and visual design, at a learning stage, and already want AI to "help them improve their work."

This really does make me laugh and worry...

I recently started using Blender again, and I feel like I'm remembering more and more things each time. Of course, a lot of things have changed, but we're progressing quite quickly.

Hey Hey Hey 👋, UI community updates under construction:

- Name Defined.
- Chat Platform (selected).
- Logo (working).
- Website (queued).
- Rules (working).
- Dynamics (working).

We are progressing little by little, I want a great place to grow and learn as a group.

To be honest, I have a big weakness with English, and it’s my poor vocabulary, i know I feel I lack confidence, but without knowing what word to use, it becomes really frustrating.

What technique, method, or app do you know to improve vocabulary?

My reading today was simply great. Building products for people should lead us to understand many human limitations.

https://blog.prototypr.io/the-most-important-rule-in-ux-design-that-everyone-breaks-1c1cb188931

I've been wanting to read this book for a while because I'm super interested in understanding how colors, light, and textures work, how we perceive them, and how to play with these elements in the field of design.

It's quite technical, but what I've read so far, I love.

According to my perception, we are in the Fancy era, with lots of beautiful and polished designs but lacking focus on people. I'm not saying you shouldn't care about the product's aesthetics.

But don't forget that we build to solve problems in a brilliant way, for the people.

Hey Hey Hey 👋, the world of 3D is magical, especially when you explore it. That’s what a friend told me a long time ago, and that’s when I started using #blender, a free software for 3D. 

This week, after some time away, I’m back to my adventures in the world of 3D.

The new Google phone looks spectacular, but I have to say that the camera module doesn't convince me! In my opinion, it clashes with the aesthetics of the design and doesn't seem to integrate well with the rest of the phone.

What do you all think?

I think we don't need more flashy names. I know we have that need to belong; it's a part of our nature, but I believe we have had enough of these ostentatious names.

Today I am starting my process of creating a pack of #icons for #mac, but a #dark version and a bit more polished compared to the originals, applying some concepts of #skeuomorphism style.

Before becoming a designer, I worked in technical support, where I learned to repair Apple products and video game consoles. 

Today, I performed maintenance on my trusty Mac mini and replaced the thermal paste with a Thermal Grizzly thermal pad, specifically the Kyrosheet.

Everything you can learn from examining one design system through another design system, and the best part is it's in editable mode and at an incredible price.

Only 9 dollars for a world of learning.

https://atomizedesign.com

They took a little while to make the Eyedropper useful, but this change is truly a great improvement and it's here now, it's a complete marvel. These little details greatly enhance the experience in the app.

It is surprising how simple and poorly executed this approach is; it doesn’t even reach the level of the old iconic MAC vs PC commercials.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYJT4zo_Xrk

Hey Hey Hey 👋, we keep moving forward, now it's time for Numbers for #macOS, and I already started organizing the tasks for the #website and the #branding of the icon pack. There's still a lot of work ahead while I build the first 50 icons. This one still needs some details.

Hey Hey Hey 👋, today we add an excellent one, with this are 9 books in 2 and 1/2 months, today I finished a book that provides a powerful decision-making tool, integrative thinking.

Then to record the tags in a note in Bear App, for quick reference.

Hey Hey Hey 👋, One defines their habits in a very mistaken way, that's why it is so hard to be consistent; that's what I realized when reading this book. I had built some habits based on a personal OKR, but I see that I need to adjust them a bit.

Hey Hey Hey Hey 👋, today we add one more book to this goal of 40 books in the rest of the year, at first it was difficult to achieve the habit, but we already have it, now I'm about to finish all the books in the world, but we go smoothly, reading between digital and physical.

Hey Hey Hey 👋 I finished two amazing books this month! 📚

Shape of Design by Frank Chimero: A poetic reflection on the role of the designer.

The Product Design for the Web by Randy J. Hunt: Practical and full of valuable tips.

Have you read them? 💬

Hey hey hey! 👋 Yesterday I started reading this book that I've been highly recommended, and so far it's been quite an interesting read. Right from the beginning, it has confirmed some theories I had about habits. I'm excited to see how this knowledge will improve my habits.

I've almost reached 20 out of the 30 books I set out to read this year 📚🎉, not counting the ones I've read in physical form.

Since Steve Jobs left Apple, there has been a tremendous complexity in all its products; there's no innovation, they just want to take as much money from your pocket as possible.

Who hasn't copied something? Whether for studying, learning, or simply for the challenge. I'm telling you that the oppo team is developing its own operating system that has "a very subtle touch 😏" in the style of iOS.

This whole thing about 10X designers seems a bit funny to me. I know we want to belong to a group and feel part of something; okay, I can accept that, but it's completely unnecessary, we are designers, we solve problems and that's it.

I love the new Mac Mini. Its compact 5x5 design for $600 with 16 GB of RAM is impressive, although the 256 GB of storage is limiting.

However, I wonder what is happening with Apple. I don't understand why the power button is on the bottom.

I can't believe it, I'm almost to episode 500 of onepiece.

Tremendous update from the #Penpot team, we now have a #plugin #system and a whole new wave is coming. This significantly expands the possibilities for #users and those interested in creating their own plugins to streamline their work.

Hey Hey Hey 👋, And this is how the first icon turned out, in this case, the Finder from my #icon pack in progress called DarkOS or DarkMaul; I still haven't decided on the name.

Version 1.0 will have around 50 initial icons, but I plan to add more later.

You are one of those who complained about that poorly placed button on the MacMiniM4. Let me tell you that a brilliantly simple solution has been shared on Reddit. For me, it has the most beautiful form of interaction: a push and that's it, your Mac turns on or off.

Today I decided to start with the Newbie challenges of FrontEnd Mentor. Because programming is like designing, practice makes perfect.

https://www.frontendmentor.io/

This has simply got me excited since I read it, I can't wait to see it in sketch, it would be great to have an online version of the tool as well, but I know that requires more work.

I hadn't noticed this, but Jaguar has entered the world of fashion and perfumery 😂. With this teaser, we can see everything that's coming from this great car brand.

If you were considering leaving Adobe, now is the perfect time. The folks at Serif are offering a 50% discount on their tools. In fact, they are already quite affordable, and with this promotion, they become even more accessible!

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/

At Apple, they went shopping this time and acquired the great app @Pixelmator. Let's hope that it's to take this app even further than where it currently stands.

https://www.pixelmator.com/blog/2024/11/01/a-new-home-for-pixelmator/

I told you so, but everyone said that you would only turn it on once and that’s it. It doesn't matter; what's done not well is done not well, and that design decision wasn't very good.

That position of the button on the Mac Mini is problematic; it's uncomfortable.

Hey Hey Hey ✌️, Practice makes perfect, that's something you can't avoid. Only constant practice and taking action will give you mastery.

Just finished a session with the new client, haven't built the agency yet and clients are already coming in. Interesting what's happening.

Decided to do this project in Framer, let's give it lots of love and amaze the client with the visuals and functionality.

Reading at least one book a month is a great learning adventure. Here are the books I finished in November.

 - "Keep Going" de Austin Kleon.

 - "Information Architecture" de Luis Resenfeld

 - "Design for How People Think" de John Whalen

 - "The Personal MBA" de Josh Kaufman.

Al final sucedió lo que tenía que suceder, esto pasa cuando no se’crean las cosas pensando en las personas.

Pero’es bueno que Figma acepte que su UI3 no funci’nó como esperaban.

No more excuses not to try this powerful tool. Six months of trial! It's the first design tool to offer such an extensive trial, providing ample time to evaluate it in a real environment and make an informed decision.

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/trial/

I've been using the Pomodoro technique to make progress on many tasks and solidify habits. Now I'll switch to #TimeBlock and see how it improves my use of time.

And with that, I'll avoid using many apps, I'll only use the Calendar 📅 and Things for task management.

Yesterday I made a change, I am not much of a writer, in fact it has been hard for me to do Journaling, although I have many crazy ideas in my head going around, but I want to take this seriously and for me that means defining a tool to do it.

And this was👇
https://bear.app/

For those looking for a simple and accessible vector design tool available online, I have discovered this gem.  

It is completely free and is perfect whether you need to create icons or want to make illustrations.

 https://start.provector.app

Hey Hey Hey 👋, MVP or MVE, this concept I didn't know about seems to me much more interesting and humane with respect to the much used MVP, a really interesting and easy to understand reading.


Minimal Valuable Experience, I really like this approach

https://tinyurl.com/themve

Hey hey hey! 👋 Why do they make decisions for me? Why didn't I receive a notification? What actually happened was that by default, they accepted to use what I posted to train their AI. Simply put, LinkedIn is becoming a declining product.

Simply put, the Japanese are on another level. I love, love, love the covers of their technology books; they are a complete beauty. Honestly, one doesn't know whether to read them or just admire them.

This is not a lie, but that web clipper from NotionHQ is simply unbearable. It's a plugin that just saves a link, and everything that can be done with Notion and its extension is simply a joke.

It's very funny to use this plugin for Chrome.

Hey Hey Hey 👋, now after finishing a new one, another book is added to be read, this time I add a book that I had pending for a while, well my list is a little long hehehehehe but we are moving forward.

The book "The One Thing by Gary Keller".

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