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Fall in love with the art not the medium.

@dnaijatechguy I’ve seen some pretty interesting ones

Love seeing designer portfolios that have personality not just being super minimalist. It’s your creative space on the internet the least you can do is try to add some fun to it 😌

Lady: Please, what app did they use for these short videos (effects)? Person 1: Jitter Person 2: After Effects Person 3: Jitter Person 4: After Effects Nigeria Person 5: My agency can do this job. She asked for an app and not your agency. Chai!! Learn when to sell.

"When words are many, transgression cannot be avoided, But whoever controls his lips acts discreetly."

Fantastic redesign!!

I don’t know about you, but I’ll never prefer designing by firing prompts like a machine gun. I want to draw rectangles, tweak bezier curves, and polish gradients and radiuses for hours. That’s the craft I fell in love with. 🫠

One of the most satisfying type of checkmates.

@Anwuriii Love how you constantly push out good, clean work. Well done

Home Screen design done for learning app 🙌🏽 Full work: behance.net/anwurii

@kennyskeelzz Nice one!

@pixel_savant Borrow patterns from products with similar behaviors. Tie your UX to familiar flows Expand reference pools. When Uber launched, there was no standards for a ride hailing service but they used Google Maps, Ecommerce payment flows etc Similar behavior but new experience.

How would you navigate Jakob’s law on a new product in a new niche? There’s no similar product in that space yet and you’re a pioneer. How would you introduce users to your product and make them use while retaining most of them?

Book 2…. Learning doesn’t stop

Doesn't matter what tools you pick – getting into design will only get harder. Learn Figma (along with AI and many other tools), but don’t forget that it’s not really about the tools at all.

@designbyaron The last line is it, you’ve always been the master!

Stop telling designers to skip Figma Every few months there's a new tool that's supposed to replace your entire workflow. I've watched designers chase every one of them and ship worse work because of it. Figma is where the thinking happens. That's not something you skip. That doesn't make you less of a design engineer. Stop rotating your entire stack every 6 months because twitter told you to. Find your tools, learn them, and stick with them. The tool was never the master. It was always you.

Excerpts from a food branding project I concluded last year. EatAroma is a food-truck business launching soon.

If you have failed 3 interviews in a row, stop applying. Try this. Stand in front of a mirror and answer these 6 questions out loud (For UX Designers), like you are being interviewed 1. Walk me through your design process 2. How do you handle feedback you disagree with? 3. Tell me about a time your design failed 4. How do you balance user needs and business goals? 5. How do you collaborate with PMs and engineers? 6. Why do you want to work here? Then honestly ask your self if you were the hiring manager would you hire yourself. You mostly fail interviews because you have never heard yourself answer hard questions out loud. One of the most underrated communication hacks is still talking to yourself in the mirror. Practice until you are confident enough to articulate your thoughts. And please do not do this close to a psychiatric home.

It’s like telling an architect to automate his entire workflow. By architect I mean an architect in training, without teaching him how to use technology to manually come up with design plans or even make those same plans on paper for testing iterations. You need to have the fundamental skill set to create standard user experiences, then and only then should one learn the “quicker” ways of doing things. Autonomy and high agency = control Only a grounded designer has those.

Stop telling new designers to skip Figma. It’s still the industry standard. That advice will cost someone a job.