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The problem with many UI Tips you can find online, is that they’re often a recycled version of what someone else has done. 🤷‍♂️

In many cases while teaching you one thing, they reinforce an extra bad practice in you as well.

Example of a bad tip ☝️

Look at the header image, one tip said you should avoid vague actions like Next or OK on main CTA’s. The tip said you should replace the text in this case with “Remove”.

They did however leave both the buttons looking exactly the same, which is a very bad…

With lockdowns being lifted in more and more countries, many businesses are considering bringing their employees back to the office.

Sure, some like Google or Facebook are opening up to full Work From Home indefinitely but even they’re trying to match the wages to your home location.

However, some companies are pushing for full office work or a hybrid model like in the case of Apple, where they expect their employees to work in a 3/2 hybrid model as soon as September.

A large group of Apple employees has filed a petition for the company to allow full Work from…

Hi friends! Here’s my quick video overview on the new changes in Mac OS and iOS announced at WWDC 2021. It’s in video form, as I think that’s the best way to quickly get through it and also show examples from the conference.

Watch it now

Non design things

Two non-design things were especially important to me. One is definitely privacy — which starts an outright war with data-driven companies living off advertising. Apple is taking no prisoners, and of course it’s all a marketing plot, but this time the user actually kind of wins (to some extent).

The other, is the possible death of…

I mostly write about design and achieving success in that field.

Moving the pixels / rectangles around is only a part of the story. There’s an often overlooked area, that is just as important to being great, as the rectangle-stacking skills of a productive designer.

Let me start you with this thought:

Morning routines are super important.

They’re what sets up your day for either a good run, or a bouncing failure — from one to the next. The routine shouldn’t be 100% set in stone — you should experiment and modify it. See what works and keep it, see what doesn’t and replace it.

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I finally grouped all my free UI design tutorials into a single playlist. You can go through them one by one and discover some of my techniques and helpful tips to design better.

You can find the playlist here, starting with the first video on UI Hierarchy.

I also created a Twitter thread where every day I will write another tweet about another free UI video — why it’s good to learn it and what to focus on.

And if you haven’t make sure to Follow me on Twitter right now so you won’t miss it :)

This…

I went through the presentations, screenshots and videos of the new Android User Interface, and it’s quite an interesting departure from Material Design.

But why did Google release it now?

Let’s explore.

In my Aurora UI article from March of this year, I wrote:

I’d say it takes about 7 years for a design trend to start reversing (give or take). The wooden backgrounds and stitched leather of the first iPhone (2007) gave way to minimal designs of iOS 7 (2013), Material Design (2014), and 2020 started bringing the real world, organic inspirations right back.

What is Material You?

In case you haven’t heard — on…

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After the success of Designing User Interfaces (~4000 books sold 🎉), we surveyed our customers asking what kind of materials would they like us to do next. The results were quite staggering.

97% said they wanted me to do a video course on UI design

I started gathering ideas around November 2020, wrote the script and recorded some initial videos. And yes, you can preorder it at 70% off right now (until it lasts, and at this rate it won’t last too long 😅)

But then I realised I need to do more research.

Next to my university class, I also started giving feedback…

I’ve done it! After 7 weeks I finally finished the entire Google UX Course at Coursera. I dedicated two days of every week to the course and did absolutely all the design assignments and quizzes.

I went in deep.

I wasn’t doing this course to get the certificate, or to find a job, and I didn’t expect to learn a lot from it either.

Why did I take it then?

My reason for it was simple. I teach design at a University and online, and education has become my primary job right now. Because Google had made a course and promised people a certificate, they raised…