Week 2021-47 #3
Hello 🌻 beautiful people,
I'm super happy for so many messages about the newsletter. I couldn't answer everyone but soon you will get an answer (I promise 🙏).
∞ Metaverse (part II)
As I mentioned before a lot more is coming into this new world and this episode from the NN/g podcast has an interesting discussion about it and UX.
Gestalt Psychology and UX Design
When it comes to designing a pixel-perfect layout, you already know how I love to do some math to calculate and measure correctly things in your design. This formula below will help you a lot to make things looks much better from now on.
Maybe the Golden Ratio approach doesn't apply to all screens however it's a good starting point when you are lost and forget even about the paragraph size. 😓
Heuristics Evaluation
What are you answering in interviews and they asked you about what do you think about their product? I hope you are always using Nielsen's Usability Heuristics to answer this type of question.
I found this plugin called Heurio. It's super useful and once you install it on your Chrome (or even better Microsoft Edge), you will be able to use some guidelines and comment on a live website. I will use it in class for the next cohort too.
If you wanna learn more about how to use it shoot me an email at hello@uxui.email.
🌎 Earth and Us
This is a preview of the Resilience Tech Report presented on the Lisbon WebSummit 2021 by John Maeda. In past reports, Maeda correctly predicted some emerging industry directions such as:
• The centrality of design in digital consumer and enterprise products.• The paradigm of remote work and its potentially equalizing effects. • The shifts to AI/ML as intrinsically needing more inclusive design.
This new report starts with a very interesting topic: where humanity’s taking the earth 🌍
🆓 Open-source portfolio
A lot of you have been using Webflow, Squarespace, or UXfolio to build your portfolio. One downside of those platforms it's that they try to lock you forever...
I found some really cool free WordPress themes designed and developed by Anders Norén.
Would like to have a WordPress portfolio session? If I have 10 positive answers, I will develop this workshop. Send me an email at hello@uxui.email.
👩🏿🎤 Portfolio Tips
I know some of you are still struggling to build your portfolio. To get some great tips about it, watch this session Portfolio Do's and Dont's with Elizé UX. And don't lose the next session How to write a killer case study.
Podcasts
Another great Ironhack alumni you should meet is Mark. He hosts the podcast Creatives Are Essential with his friends. I will try also to recommend some specific episodes soon. And of course any future contribution are welcome.
Buttons to convert
I always do this activity together to show how to build better buttons in Figma and organize your Design System. Below you will find some articles to add to your process when you are designing buttons.
Adobe XD and the "new" Lottie integration
Sometimes Adobe tries to sell old ideas as a new thing but you could add Lottie animations in Figma for a long time. After Adobe MAX they announced this integration with Lottie and you can add some great animations to your prototype. To learn how to do it, watch this tutorials Tutorial 1 and Tutorial 2.
And Black Friday is on the corner and Adobe is giving a 70% discount to Creative Cloud apps. Don't miss it.
Thank you for the amazing amount of suggestions you are sharing with me. I will keep adding them to the next editions.
See you next week.
Juno