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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. Slanted puts it down to a massive increase in typeface production over the last three decades.

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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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UX in the low-code era

UX Collective

As a UX specialist working in the industry for a few years, I see enormous possibilities emerging from the ‘low-code’ movement. First things first, what’s low code, and how does it connect with different kinds of designers? code and Low code (NC/LC)?—?my Low-Code is a new kind of prototyping tool.

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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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Product Thinking: The Mindset Driving Successful Products

Inkbot Design

Product Thinking: The Mindset Driving Successful Products Product thinking is emerging as a crucial skill for building great digital products in the modern technology landscape. With consumers demanding exceptional digital experiences , having a product-focused mindset can give companies an edge.

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Wordle is a masterclass in product design simplicity

UX Collective

But I’m a product designer and a programmer, so as I played, I couldn’t help but notice some strange things about how it was constructed. I was right in the middle of making my own product School Morning Routine , so I was very interested to see what I could learn from Wordle. The source code is tiny and easily copied or reproduced.

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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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