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Practical Uses for Figma’s Auto Layout and Symbols

Figma’s Auto Layout and Symbols are a powerful combination of features for software designers, enabling them to add significant value to their products.

Project & Team Management

Project Updates: a Tool for Reporting Project Status to Clients

The project update has a valuable spot in a software team's toolbelt by allowing them to document, share, and influence the direction of a project.

Web Apps

Sending Emails with Google Sheets & Scripts

Here's an example of sending emails with Google Sheets and Scripts, ways to structure your data importing, and how to schedule the script to run.

UX/Design Tools

Figma Test Drive: Strengths and Weaknesses

Both Sketch and Figma have a compelling set of features. Here, I'll identify the key positives and negatives I found during a recent experience with Figma.

Project & Team Management

3 Clients that Should Spend More Time in the Research, Design, and Planning Phase

The ideal research, design, and planning phase gives the team important information before the client commits a large amount of capital.

UX/Design Techniques

Prioritize Software Features by Mapping Complexity & Value with a Feature Matrix

Creating a feature matrix can help you plan your project by understanding which features have the highest value and which the greatest risk.

Designing for Users

Getting to the Right Amount of Design

As a product matures, the likelihood of building the wrong product should decrease, and the product's polish, interactiveness, and depth of features can increase.

UX/Design Tools

Creating a 3D Logo with Vectary

Creating a 3D design can be challenging, but tools like Vectary make the process simple. Follow these 6 steps to create your own 3D logo using Vectary.

Growing as Makers

3 Steps to Building Credibility & Winning Your Client’s Trust

The client needs to know that they are in good hands, with a team they can count on for solid, well-reasoned advice.

UX/Design Techniques

Using Material Design? Keep the Design & Dev Teams Communicating

Prefab design systems like Material Design have hidden costs, which often surface as communication issues. Here are four approaches to help your team align.

UX/Design Practices

Smoothing the Design Handoff with a Component Library

A well planned component library can go a long way in improving the handoff of designs from software designers to developers.

UX/Design Tools

A Designer’s Guide to Scraping Data from HTML Pages with Artoo

Artoo is a neat little web scraper that will let you target data on a webpage and return only the data your interested in.

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