Summary: Achieving product-market fit and practicing user-centered design become difficult when AI is presented as a product’s main value. A Clear Value Proposition Helps Both Users and Product Teams To help make decisions throughout the product lifecycle, designers create principles at the beginning of a project. The value proposition is the foremost of those principles… Continue reading “Powered By AI” Is Not a Value Proposition
2025’s Best Creative Logo Templates for Designers
When working with custom logo templates and modern logo designs, you need options that save time and support originality. Good templates give you a strong starting point, especially when tight deadlines demand speed without sacrificing quality. Designers often juggle multiple client demands. You might be creating a brand identity for a startup one day and… Continue reading 2025’s Best Creative Logo Templates for Designers
35 Remarkable Handpicked Lettering Typography Designs
Explore the creative lettering posters designed with amazing hand typography to find inspiration for your next project. These typography designs show how thoughtful letter design can make a message more engaging and clear. Each design focuses on how text alone can carry the meaning. Designers use unique styles, weights, and compositions to make the words… Continue reading 35 Remarkable Handpicked Lettering Typography Designs
30 Best Free Typewriter Fonts for Vintage and Retro Designs
Typewriter fonts bring a touch of nostalgia, authenticity, and raw charm to any design. Whether you’re crafting a vintage poster, designing a book cover, or adding character to a personal project, typewriter fonts offer that unmistakable mechanical grit that digital fonts often lack. These fonts aren’t just about aesthetics—they tell a story, evoking the clatter of keys, the… Continue reading 30 Best Free Typewriter Fonts for Vintage and Retro Designs
Free Font Of The Day : Canalha
This is out daily free font of the day post. Canalha is not your average typeface. It’s gritty, raw, and unapologetically bold. Designed for those who want to make a statement, Canalha thrives in edgy design work — whether it’s for music posters, underground fashion, or rebellious branding projects. The font blends vintage street-style lettering with… Continue reading Free Font Of The Day : Canalha
How to Become a UX Consultant? [Responsibilities, Salary & Jobs]
Key takeaways 📈 UX consultants align user experience with business goals to drive measurable impact. 🧪 Conducting in-depth research and audits helps uncover usability issues. 💼 Earning $140K+ annually or charging high hourly rates is common in this role. 🧠 Shifting focus from design execution to strategic problem-solving defines the consultant mindset. 🐝 UXtweak helps… Continue reading How to Become a UX Consultant? [Responsibilities, Salary & Jobs]
Scaling UX Impact with Limited Resources
Unlock exponential UX influence by empowering others through supportive services, even with limited resources. Welcome back. In my previous emails, we explored how to plan and present your UX strategy and gain support from the people who matter. We talked about getting buy-in and navigating the occasional tricky political waters. It was all about setting… Continue reading Scaling UX Impact with Limited Resources
50+ Free ID Card Mockups (Free PSD & PNG Downloads)
ID Card Mockups have revolutionized the way designers and businesses showcase their identification card designs. Whether you’re a graphic designer pitching to a client or a company planning a new employee badge system, these digital tools offer an invaluable solution for presenting your concepts in a realistic, professional manner. Choosing the Right Mockup Style Different… Continue reading 50+ Free ID Card Mockups (Free PSD & PNG Downloads)
The EAA and the new era of digital accessibility
I’ve been working to advance digital accessibility for over twenty years. In that time, I’ve seen both successes and setbacks. But like everyone committed to this mission, I have never wavered in my faith that digital accessibility is the future. Well, that future is here. The European Accessibility Act (EAA) is law as of this… Continue reading The EAA and the new era of digital accessibility
Becoming a UX Multiplier: Services That Expand Your Impact
Learn how to offer strategic UX services that scale your influence without stretching yourself too thin. In the last email, I talked about shifting your role from implementer to advisor. I know that can feel uncomfortable, maybe even a bit risky. Letting go of direct control means trusting others to do UX work, and let’s… Continue reading Becoming a UX Multiplier: Services That Expand Your Impact
UX Conference September Announced (Sep 6 – Sep 19)
How will the Virtual Event work? Meetings will take place using the video conferencing tool Zoom, collaboration tools (such as group document editing and whiteboarding tools), and the social discussion tool Slack. You’ll also be able to use Slack before, during, and after the event to participate in social events and network with other… Continue reading UX Conference September Announced (Sep 6 – Sep 19)
The Hamburger-Menu Icon Today: Is it Recognizable?
Summary: Hamburger menus are a more familiar pattern today than 10 years ago, but the same old best practices for hidden navigation still apply. Few icons in digital design have sparked as much debate over the last decade as the hamburger. The hamburger menu — which earned its nickname because of its abstract, stacked, hamburger-like… Continue reading The Hamburger-Menu Icon Today: Is it Recognizable?
Creating Design Specs for Development
Summary: Design specifications should provide all the relevant information needed to align the design and development teams. You work tirelessly on a new design project. It’s your masterpiece… until the dev team says it isn’t possible. Most designers have experienced this situation at some point in their careers. As frustrating as it may be, there… Continue reading Creating Design Specs for Development
14 logic-driven UI design tips to improve any interface
[unable to retrieve full-text content] UI design tips to improve your interface designs using logic rather than gut feel. Designing user interfaces is no easy task. With countless choices around layout, spacing, typography, and colour, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. And when you layer in considerations like usability, accessibility, and human psychology, the challenge only grows. But… Continue reading 14 logic-driven UI design tips to improve any interface
The $10B blueprint: Beyond Code & Canvas, how AI-Driven thinking will shape the next era of…
[unable to retrieve full-text content] The $10B blueprint: Beyond Code & Canvas, how AI-Driven thinking will shape the next era of leadership Introduction: Not Just Pixels, But Power What if the future CEO of a trillion-dollar company is someone who blends creativity, systems thinking, and human empathy, with the power of AI? Whether from design, engineering,… Continue reading The $10B blueprint: Beyond Code & Canvas, how AI-Driven thinking will shape the next era of…
10 Clever Instagram Caption Ideas That Spark Emotion and Drive Meaningful Interactions
Instagram caption ideas can help you form deeper connections with your Instagram followers. The right caption doesn’t just sit under your photo—it speaks directly to the person reading. It can make someone pause, reflect, or even feel seen. When used well, captions drive meaningful engagement, encourage conversation, and bring authenticity to your presence online. If… Continue reading 10 Clever Instagram Caption Ideas That Spark Emotion and Drive Meaningful Interactions
After Effects timeline tips every designer should know
For many, the After Effects timeline can appear quite odd the first time you see it. It doesn’t appear like a traditional editing timeline you might see in Premiere Pro or Final Cut. And it isn’t a node-based editor either, like you see in Davinci Resolve. Instead, After Effects treats everything on the composition timeline… Continue reading After Effects timeline tips every designer should know
Vibe Coding in After Effects: We created an AI plugin with NO coding experience!
It’s now easier than ever to make changes and add features to After Effects with a little help from AI! After a little investigation, we’ve tracked down the best tools to create our own expressions and plugins with AI, with absolutely no coding experience. Recently we ran an article delving into vibe coding (Using an… Continue reading Vibe Coding in After Effects: We created an AI plugin with NO coding experience!
Exciting New Tools for Designers, June 2025
Another month, another roundup packed with design tools that use artificial intelligence features to supercharge your workflows. Expect this trend in new design, development, and productivity tools to continue for a while. (And hopefully, some of these tools actually help you work smarter and faster!) Here’s what’s new for designers. Magic UI is a set… Continue reading Exciting New Tools for Designers, June 2025
25 Best Luxury Logo Fonts Perfect for Logo Design
Luxury fonts for logos give your brand a distinct, premium look. Whether you’re working with fashion boutique brands, or luxury services, the logo fonts you choose says a lot about the message you’re sending. If your goal is to communicate elegance and class, font selection isn’t a small decision. It affects how your audience perceives… Continue reading 25 Best Luxury Logo Fonts Perfect for Logo Design
AI Summaries of Reviews
Summary: AI-generated review summaries extract qualitative key themes from customer feedback, helping shoppers quickly assess what purchasers think about the product. When designed well, AI summaries of ecommerce reviews helped our study participants quickly gauge product quality and fit for their needs. But when AI summaries of customer reviews were vague, poorly formatted, or blocked… Continue reading AI Summaries of Reviews
Design Sprints Extended: Design on Track
Design Sprints as an approach to tackling design challenges has seen some adoption in design teams. And the reasons why are pretty compelling: it is a well-defined process with hands-on and collaborative activities plus it can lead to concrete results in relatively very little time. Benefits and Outcomes of Design Sprints The learning out of… Continue reading Design Sprints Extended: Design on Track
30 Free Stencil Fonts: Stylish Picks for Designers
Stencil fonts are a powerful and distinctive typeface style that continues to hold a firm place in both digital and print design. Known for their bold lines and strategic cutouts, stencil fonts offer a unique combination of utility and style, making them perfect for a wide range of creative projects. Whether you’re designing military posters,… Continue reading 30 Free Stencil Fonts: Stylish Picks for Designers
30+ Simple CV Resume Templates (Download Now)
You don’t need complex designs to create a strong resume. A simple layout can often do more. These CV resume templates focus on clarity, structure, and ease of use. Each one is ready to download and edit. You don’t need professional skills to use them. They come in PSD, AI, and MS Word formats. You… Continue reading 30+ Simple CV Resume Templates (Download Now)