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Direct link to the article cleanup.pictures
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cleanup.pictures

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Nice domain, eh? Does just what it says on the tin: cleans up pictures. You draw over areas of the image you want cleaned up, and it does its best using weird science. It’s like Photoshop’s Spot Healing Brush…

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Nov 10, 2021
Direct link to the article Figma Crash Course
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Figma Crash Course

Totally free course from Pablo Stanley. Can’t beat that.

Figma is just blowing up, and for good reason. It’s good software aligned with what digital designers need. It’s fast. It’s on the web, so you can’t lose stuff and …

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Chris Coyier on Feb 1, 2021
Direct link to the article Using DevTools to Improve the UX Design to Development Process
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Using DevTools to Improve the UX Design to Development Process

I’d like to tell you how I see code and design intersect and support one another. Specifically, I want to cover how designers can use code in their everyday work. I suggest this not because it’s a required skill, but …

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Lisa Tweedie on Jun 7, 2019
Direct link to the article STAR Apps: A New Generation of Front-End Tooling for Development Workflows
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STAR Apps: A New Generation of Front-End Tooling for Development Workflows

Product teams from AirBnb and New York Times to Shopify and Artsy (among many others) are converging on a new set of best practices and technologies for building the web apps that their businesses depend on. This trend reflects core …

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Shawn Wang on Jan 18, 2019
Direct link to the article Framer X
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Framer X

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Framer X is a brand new app that’s about to be released and this quick demo reel takes us on a tour through some of the changes to the previous app—it all looks super exciting.

As a designer, I’m most …

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Shared by Robin Rendle on Jul 31, 2018
Direct link to the article A DevTools for Designers
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A DevTools for Designers

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There has long been an unfortunate disconnect between visual design for the web and web design and development. We’re over here designing pictures of websites, not websites – so the sentiment goes.

A.J. Kandy puts a point on all this. …

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Mar 31, 2018
Direct link to the article Your Sketch library is not a design system redux
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Your Sketch library is not a design system redux

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I really like this post by Brad Frost about what is and isn’t a design system, particularly when he de-emphasizes the importance of tools when it comes to that sort of work …

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Shared by Robin Rendle on Feb 15, 2018
Direct link to the article Tools for Thinking and Tools for Systems
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Tools for Thinking and Tools for Systems

I’ve been obsessed with design tools the past two years, with apps like as Sketch, Figma and Photoshop perhaps being the most prolific of the bunch. We use these tools to make high fidelity mockups and ensure high quality user …

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Robin Rendle on Jan 26, 2018
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When Design Becomes Part of the Code Workflow

I recently did an experiment where I created the same vector illustration in three different applications, exported the illustration as SVG in each application, then wrote a post comparing the exported code.

While I loved the banter and insights that …

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Geoff Graham on Sep 5, 2017
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The Ideal Design Workflow

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lols. I told you design tooling was crazy right now.…

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Jun 10, 2016

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