As a creator, I use Figma every day and I can honestly say it’s 10x’ed my creation process.
Do you want to become a full-time web designer but aren’t sure where to start?
As a designer, your value comes from the things you create. Your “job currency” is creativity.
I last wrote about my Obsidian Setup way back in March. I was still finding my feet with Obsidian and trying lots of different things to see what worked well for me.
Character limits are used on text fields to indicate the maximum amount of characters that can be entered into that field.
Password fields are a necessity if you’re designing a login or sign-up form for your application. As common as these types of fields are, they can be frustrating to interact with when poorly designed.
Designing an entire website can seem like a big challenge. You need to think about all the pages, the content on each page, how it’ll be designed, what colors to use; the list is pretty long.
Mind maps are a powerful tool for getting started with project planning, learning something new, or even making decisions.
At the end of a blog post, it’s a good idea to recommend similar posts to your readers. This helps them to find more great content on your website easily.
Feeling “bored” can result in a complete lack of motivation. You don’t have the drive to pick something from your list of chores. You can’t bring yourself to do anything except watch YouTube mindlessly.
On this website some of the links used are affiliate links. To let people know this, I include a disclaimer at the top of relevant pages.
A shutdown routine is something you do at the end of your workday that tells your brain, I’m finished with work today.
As a UI Designer, you are essentially paid for your ideas. They are your greatest source of value.
It’s easy to be bombarded by things you should work on or should do. Things from work, things in your life, things you read on social media.
We all need constraints to operate effectively. In the world of creators, creative constraints allow us to focus our energy and concentration in the right place.
As one of the many people now working from home, I found the process difficult at first.
As someone that is interested in systems and workflows, I’m always curious about the tools other people use to make them more productive.
In the world of content creation, we’re always creating new things. New blog posts, new videos, podcasts, and social media posts.
The whole idea of creativity and being creative is underestimated in today’s world.
Any well-designed application should have good error messages. When I say good error messages I’m not talking about a message like “Critical Error x-299498sdkfjh”. Let’s face it, that helps no one.
Here you’ll find a collection of my visual essays for May.
Adding the estimated reading time of your article provides valuable context for readers. They can decide if they want to read your article now or bookmark it and save it for later.
How we live our lives and the systems we use to keep on top of things is always changing.
A great tip for speeding up the build time of your Jekyll blog is to make use of the incremental regeneration feature.
It can be easy to fall into the pattern of working from day to day, week to week. Finding the time and motivation to learn how to improve or become better than you were before can seem like a huge task.
The 12 Week Year will fundamentally change how you think about goal planning and working towards those goals.
If you’re looking to optimize the build time of your Jekyll blog, it’s useful to know just how long each part of the build process takes.
As I sit down to write this article, I’m not starting from scratch.
As your Jekyll blog grows in size over time, you might find that the build process takes longer to run.
I enjoy writing my articles using Markdown as it offers a lot of benefits. I’m able to write without distraction. Plus my hands never need to leave the keyboard to format what I’m writing.
Eat That Frog is all about doing that one thing, the thing that provides you with the most value in the long-term. If you can Eat That Frog first thing in the morning before anything else, you’ve set yourself up for success.
A common convention for external links is that they open in a new tab. The idea behind this is that you can easily go back to the previous tab if you need to. This makes it easy for users to return to your website.
If you have read my recent post: You Learn More Effectively By Practicing, you’ll know that I’ve consciously made an effort to continue building my web development knowledge.
Here you’ll find a collection of my visual essays for March + April.
Cognitive Surplus was a thought-provoking but enjoyable book to read. It raised a lot of great points about the world we currently live in. A world where people are actively consuming media and have lots of “free time” when compared with previous generations.
If you have many different post categories on your WordPress website, you might want to funnel them to different pages. This is especially important to consider if you have included each of your post categories in your navigation menu.
I recently started back into building up my web development skills. A lot has changed in the time since I last actively made an effort to advance my knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript so I needed to catch up!
Hooked by Nir Eyal outlines The Hook Model, a methodology for building habit forming products that improve a user’s life in some way.
I have been using Obsidian as my personal knowledge management (PKM) system for the last number of months.
I recently revised the way I use Todoist to manage my work-related tasks as a UI Designer at the company where I work.
I recently revised my content creation workflow to tie in better with my goal to develop a consistent writing habit. With that in mind, I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to share with you my simplified writing workflow for content creation.
Don’t Make Me Think was a transformative reading experience for me. It boils down a lot of complex and indepth usability research and best practices into easy to understand advice with examples.
I recently had to do some research to figure out how to properly handle disabled fields and buttons (I’m collectively calling them components). This design pattern is quite often used across my designs so I wanted to be sure I was implementing it correctly.
Our brains are always thinking and processing. If each thought was a word, we would be able to generate enough content to produce a whole book every single day.
The War Of Art focuses on the topics of resistance and procrastination. It offers lots of insight into how these can negatively affect our creative output and general ability to get work done.
I recently wrote about the act of continuous learning and made a case for learning from and being inspired by others.
Just because you’ve left school doesn’t mean that you should stop learning. In fact, I would argue that you should never stop learning new things.
Getting Things Done is widely considered a staple of the productivity world and is the go-to book recommended if you’re looking to become a more productive person. It’s the go-to book that many consider being the start of the “productivity revolution”.
In today’s day and age, many people can become their own boss by being a “content creator” or “knowledge worker”. The internet is full of ambitious and creative people that make their living solely online.
Reading Peak was an extremely motivational experience for me. The idea that everyone can improve with deliberate practice no matter how old you are is a really great message.