When practicing social distancing, we are more likely to feel bored or stressed. I’ve been working from home for almost 2 months, and I found the following 3 apps really useful in helping me stay grounded and healthy. As a designer, from a product design point of view, I think they all have successfully achieved their value propositions.
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Free Condensed Gothic Typeface: Gothic Kaiping
Gothic Kaiping is a condensed gothic display typeface with bold strokes. It is designed to be used in large font sizes in titles.
Continue readingLearnings from Reading A Practical Guide to Information Architecture
Information architecture, or IA, is a term that you’ve probably come across quite often if you’re in the experience design field, but what exactly is IA? What is the relationship between IA and navigation? And what are the things that we need to keep in mind if we want to construct a good IA for our project?
These were some of the questions I used to have about IA, and the book A Practical Guide to Information Architecture, written by Donna Spencer, provides answers to these questions.
Continue readingFree Typeface: Typhoon Display Regular
Typhoon Display is a display typeface with high contrast in stroke width. It is designed to be used in large font sizes in titles.
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Continue readingSketch Plugin: Paste Paddings
This sketch plugin copies the paddings of one element to another. It can speed up your workflow when you’ve changed the spacing of one element that’s shared across different artboards and would like the new spacing to be applied to the same element in other artboards.
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