Available for your project. When working on a project, I find that designing for the least convenient, or outlier, use cases serves the outcome in a good way. (Think long names, more than one line of text to account for text gain when translations are dropped in, different ratio images, multiple alerts on the screen simultaneously, etc.) It will help you uncover problems you might overlook if you design “pretty” and only focus on the happy path.
Design “ugly”
A quick tip to design smarter.
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Some light reading from the archives.
I self-published two low-content books with hand-drawn illustrations on Amazon KDP. Now I'm sharing the real time and costs involved in making them. Spoiler: It’s not easy money!
A simple and tasty granola recipe for your everyday eating enjoyment.
Working cross-functionally is challenging. Some thoughts I've had on the topic.
