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Mono Moment: Slanted's helpful reference guide to magical monospaced fonts

Creative Boom

In design, art, coding – even on our identification documents. A new book published by Slanted celebrates these hardworking fonts and offers a source of inspiration for graphic designers and typographers looking for a helpful reference guide. Monospaced fonts are not just fascinating; they're everywhere we look.

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A product design process for the real world

UX Collective

The product design playbook I use to break down and execute on design projects. At the start of 2021, Dialpad’s core product was a business phone platform. By the end of the year, however, we acquired two companies and pledged to add email, chat, and social to our product. What’s your product design process?”

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Designers, dreaming of building your own product?

UX Collective

Many designers, myself included, are held back by a lack of the necessary knowledge and skills to build products. For those of you, I have an option that is free, doesn’t require a ton of coding knowledge, guarantees users, and you can finish your first product today. The controversial question “Should designers code?”

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32 affordable tools to keep costs down when you first go freelance

Creative Boom

And the best productivity tools will pay for themselves in terms of the time and energy they save. Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer and Affinity Publisher each offer a close approximation to Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, respectively. Reedsy Want to publish your own book? Bootstrap Know a bit about coding?

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Fresh tools to help creatives run their freelance practice in 2024

Creative Boom

The other half is about staying organised and productive so you can deliver everything on time and get paid promptly. Talk to a freelancer who's got that sorted, and you'll probably find they have a suite of productivity tools that help them achieve this with minimal fuss. Notes Use Apple products? It's probably a lot.

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Design systems in Figma: how to be more productive

UX Collective

allowing you to apply them consistently across designs, code, tools, and platforms. In addition, if you update the brand palette, you can quickly sync all the colors in the product. I use the Figma Tokens plugin to manage tokens inside Figma and to import/export them from/to code. Crafting Component API, Together 4.

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Accessibility Handoff: a guide for product designers

UX Collective

How to instruct developers to build accessible products Just as we designers, who are responsible for the quality of the products we build, do not receive reinforced training on accessibility in traditional bachelor’s and postgraduate courses and courses in general, developers also need this study.