50+ practical UI/UX design tips (1 each weekday) 👇👇👇

Props to James Cook for using common ingredients uncommonly well 🤩.

📏 XL SIZE: at size 84, this headline is massive. We see details in Georgia that aren't as familiar. It's a whole new font!. 👌 NEGATIVE LETTER SPACING: fonts are designed for body text sizing. For headlines, subtract letter-spacing for a tighter, crisper feel.

Georgia is a default web font, it's on a billion pages. but here it looks FRESH 🔥. Why? 2 reasons.

LIGATURES! I'm dying 😂

This website for a $300 pepper grinder is EXACTLY what you'd expect.

Showing a bunch of intermediate deliverables in your portfolio writeups?. Plz don't 🙈. Instead, focus on RESULTS. If you can achieve the results, it's *understood* you know how to do the process. If you CAN'T achieve the results, it DOESN'T MATTER if you can do "the process".

Reading survey results from 1000+ designers on Design Hacks. Amazing how many are fighting against AI slop. As the sole FTE at my biz, I've only seen the tip of the iceberg. It's bad out there, eh? 😬.

And here's the short video version where I break down Liquid Glass in Figma step-by-step 😎.

Here's a property-by-property visual breakdown of Liquid Glass in Figma, along with WHAT each property changes.

How to do Apple's Liquid Glass in Figma (a property-by-property visual breakdown). Time to get nerdy about liquid glass 🤓. 👇👇

More Figtree sightings I like 👀

I had this rude awakening on my first client project 🙃. Had to get my rear in gear and figure out visual design.

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🥃 Refraction through glass effects.⛅ Soft shadow techniques.🌈 Mesh gradients. All in Apple's new visual style, announced yesterday. All topics covered on Design Hacks (or events I've done, announced on Design Hacks). Interested in staying on the future of visual design?.👇

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