This week, Marshall offers a few simple tips for tidying up your source files, and we answer a listener question about when to move on from a company. In News, we shout out a new resource from the maker of Laws of UX. And as always, we share a couple cool things like a browser for neoworkers and an article about the Omnibox.
Follow-up:
- Last week, Marshall recommended the Philips Sonicare DiamondClean 9500 Electric Toothbrush
- Brian doesn't think it's worth the money, unless you're into Mercedes-Benz, apparently
News:
- Humane by Design is "a resource that provides guidance for designing ethically humane digital products through patterns focused on user well-being"
- It's made by Jon Yablonski, who you might remember as the maker of Laws of UX referenced in 271: Principles of Design
Listener Question:
- Anonymous has been at a startup for years and doesn't know where it's going. They ask, "Should I stay and fight the good fight? Or should I go to a bigger company and make more money?"
- Loss Aversion and the Sunk Cost Fallacy on Wikipedia
- Kristy Tillman is the Head of Global Experience Design at Slack
- Do you have a question you'd like to hear us answer on the show? Email us at designdetailsfm@gmail.com
Industry Talk:
- A few simple rules:
- Rename and structure your layers as you create them
- If you find yourself duplicating an element frequently, make it a symbol
- Use "Bounds" layers to define a group's area, then snap groups together like Lego
- Sketch Plugins:
- Layer Tools
- Automate
- Artboard Manager
- Symbol Organizer
- Runner
- Here the Sketch Cloud source file for Marshall's unsolicited redesign of the New York Times Crossword app on iOS
- Importing the file into Figma resulted in some unexpected insanity, but hopefully you can see through the mistranslations and grok the structure. Sorry :(
One Cool Thing:
- Brian shared NOVA, a web browser "designed for the way we interact with the web today, made for the neoworkers" (whatever those are)
- Moom is a simple Mac utility that "makes window management as easy as clicking a mouse button"
- Nova's app icon isn't nearly as bold as its marketing page
- Marshall shared Unboxing Chrome, a Medium article by Hannah Lee about the monumental task of redesigning Chrome's Omnibox
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