Tag: Sketch

Enterprise design stack: the tools we use to design the datacenter operating system

I love reading about how other Design teams are working together and what tools they’re using. It’s reassuring to know teams you admire and respect use the same tools you do. It’s also usually a trigger for me to try some other tools that either I haven’t heard of or that I’ve been meaning to… Continue reading Enterprise design stack: the tools we use to design the datacenter operating system

ShowTrackr: Free landing template for Sketch

Hey, folks! Glad to share with you this free landing page template designed and released by Daniel Korpai, UI designer from The Netherlands. The goal was to create a design, which is in line with the latest design trends, while focusing on hitting the business goal (getting more people on the platform) and only use elements,… Continue reading ShowTrackr: Free landing template for Sketch

Shhh… a UX designer’s mistakes

A few days ago was my 2 year anniversary at StatMuse (visit us) and subsequently also my 2 year anniversary as a UX/UI Designer! Although I am happy that we’ve shipped multiple responsive websites, a brand new iOS app, and a some platform bots, I do recognize that I’ve made a whole bunch of mistakes… Continue reading Shhh… a UX designer’s mistakes

Sketch UX kit for wireframing & prototyping

A free UX kit for Sketch created by Mikolaj Dobrucki that may come in handy for wireframing and building complex interfaces quickly! This kit comes with more than 300 predefined components, text styles and layer styles. Inside the Sketch file you will find a mix of web, iOS and Android elements. Nevertheless, all elements are nicely organised… Continue reading Sketch UX kit for wireframing & prototyping

Frequent vs. infrequent designers — and more UX links this week

If you like the links, don’t forget to ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Frequent vs. infrequent designers — and the tools designed for them → Frequent designers are people who routinely design for a certain platform (apps or websites or VR or chatbots or any other) and using a certain design tool (Sketch or Principle or Illustrator and so on). They… Continue reading Frequent vs. infrequent designers — and more UX links this week

Stop blaming your digital tools for your problems

Jira, Trello, Basecamp, Sketch, Invision, Zeplin, Jenkins, Google Analytics — I could go on, but no matter the tool or how good it is there will always be a problem with it. Your tools are not the problem, your reliance and attitude towards them is. I’ve seen so many teams complain that “Jira doesn’t let me do this”… Continue reading Stop blaming your digital tools for your problems

Planguru: Free UI kit for event and planning apps

Planguru is a free UI Kit for Sketch and Photoshop that you can use to get started with an event or planning app. Planguru includes 18 beautifully designed screens and a bunch of components covering many necessities for an app of that kind: a calendar for scheduling events, a group chat, notification system and more. Nice… Continue reading Planguru: Free UI kit for event and planning apps

InVision Studio is out—but are designers migrating to a new tool again?

Why would someone switch from Sketch to Invision Studio? Well, to answer this question I decided to look at what the community is talking about online. Here are some of the answers I found on Quora. Opinions seem pretty divided. 1.“It depends on its performance — if it improves my workflow. Sketch is pretty simple and has many… Continue reading InVision Studio is out—but are designers migrating to a new tool again?

Minimal iPhone X isometric mockups

A free set of isometric iPhone X Clay mockups released by Lstore to present your app design or create stunning dribbble shots. Freebies is provided in PSD and Sketch file format at high resolution and, as showed in the screenshots below, it is pretty easy to customise. Download freebie

30 Fresh Freebies for Web & Graphic Designers

Freebies are always handy for web and graphic designers. Download fresh and useful professionally designed free psd, sketch and illustrated files for commercial use. In this collection free resources included business cards, free psd mockups, UI Kits, Web Templates, App Template, Icons and many more useful files that can make your work easier and save your time and money.… Continue reading 30 Fresh Freebies for Web & Graphic Designers

iOS 11 UI kit for iPhone X

Design+Code has recently released a new Sketch UI kit for iPhone X based on iOS11. Freebie provides both light and dark UI versions. Components, layouts and typography have been designed accordingly with Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines. The naming convention of each component strictly follows Apple Developer Documentation so you can get familiar with it when you… Continue reading iOS 11 UI kit for iPhone X

Designing On The Go? 4 Apps And Add-Ons For The Mobile Creator

Are your design projects running behind schedule? Or are you just having trouble keeping track of team members while on the go? Whatever the issue, the fact is that web design is a mobile field today, and we all work from a range of locations. That means we need tools that go with us. Take… Continue reading Designing On The Go? 4 Apps And Add-Ons For The Mobile Creator

Facebook iOS 11 iPhone UI kit

The designer team at Facebook has recently updated their iOS GUI freebie with a new release: it’s time for a free iOS11 UI kit, a comprehensive set of files for Origami, Sketch and Photoshop providing all you need to get started with a new iPhone app (wallpapers included). Download iOS11 UI kit

Elements: A free iOS UI kit by Sketch

The designer team at Sketch has recently released a totally free UI kit for their popular app. It is called Elements and it is pretty massive since it includes 35 screens, 45 icons and 175 symbols. Elements is probably the best choice to get started on your next app design for iOS: you just need… Continue reading Elements: A free iOS UI kit by Sketch

Shards: A modern UI toolkit based on Bootstrap 4

Shards is a free and modern design system based on the popular Bootstrap 4 framework. It is basically a UI toolkit including responsive components and icons from both Material and Font Awesome packs. Shards is built with performance in mind having a small footprint and weighting (it’s ~12kb minified and gzipped). Download includes the original Sketch and SCSS files so you can get your… Continue reading Shards: A modern UI toolkit based on Bootstrap 4

Precision in UX, Face ID and accessibility, conversation starters, and more UX this week

The burden of precision → Design tools today confine us to an unrealistic and ill-advised goal: one of perfection. Tools like Photoshop and Sketch are highly precise, and demand precise output from Designers. We measure the pixels between elements, the exact colors in multiple color spaces, and present these masterpieces in meetings before they’re handed… Continue reading Precision in UX, Face ID and accessibility, conversation starters, and more UX this week

Goal-based Sketching for UX design

Sketching and doodling can be fun, relaxing and has the power to expand your thinking. However when trying to solve problems, sketching can also distract your process. As a User Experience designer, I have found setting constraints like a timer or a whiteboard super helpful in putting pressure on the ideas being explored. Sketching up… Continue reading Goal-based Sketching for UX design

Vera Block: A huge set of UI components and app screens

Vera Block is a massive freebie made of 100+ UI components and 140+ mobile screens for Sketch and Photoshop. It is super-useful to speed up a mobile design workflow due to its flexibility and ease of use. Vera Block design takes into account the latest trends in interface design featuring a clean UI, great font pairings and… Continue reading Vera Block: A huge set of UI components and app screens

Symbols & Styleguides: A template for Sketch

Symbols & Styleguides is a super-useful Sketch template designed and released by Jan Losert that you can use as a starting point for every UI design project. It is basically a template file including tons of UI elements such as inputs, selects, dropdown dialogs, buttons, textareas, multi-item fields, calendar view, checkboxes, radio buttons, etc. Freebie features list: 90 customisable elements… Continue reading Symbols & Styleguides: A template for Sketch

No Digital Tools needed: Creating Digital Products

Photo by Climate KIC on Unsplash I am sure, every UI and UX Designer knows that kind of problem: You have received a briefing for a new project. Everybody is on fire and is going to do some fancy stuff for it. But how to start? How to create innovative ideas? How to set your mind… Continue reading No Digital Tools needed: Creating Digital Products