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Mono Moment: Slanted's helpful reference guide to magical monospaced fonts

Creative Boom

In design, art, coding – even on our identification documents. A new book published by Slanted celebrates these hardworking fonts and offers a source of inspiration for graphic designers and typographers looking for a helpful reference guide. Monospaced fonts are not just fascinating; they're everywhere we look.

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We bring you all the winners of the World Illustration Awards 2024

Creative Boom

New Talent Overall Winner: Kayla Salim In the Publishing category, Kayla Salim was awarded the New Talent prize, and the artist also took the Overall New Talent award for the image Ama No Inori: Prayer of the Ama. Presumably, this was in reference to body odour, and Glen imagined the scene in a mosaic-style image.

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The biggest trends in graphic design for 2024, as predicted by the creative industry

Creative Boom

However, with clever use of colour, uncluttered layouts and the introduction of smart graphics like QR codes, it offers unique ways of designing within these constraints." "With reduced on-pack graphics, communicating brand and product details becomes challenging. We’ve already seen #ProjectGlyphEase in the works," he notes. "In

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Optimising your design system with Figma’s variables

UX Collective

Keep in mind the 5 design system principles 5 design system principles Consistency Scalable Maintainable DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) Code-friendly Whenever I needed to make a design decision for a design system, I constantly questioned whether my design approach was consistent, scalable, and maintainable and whether it minimized redundancy.

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Supercharge your design system with design tokens

UX Collective

According to the pros, Design Tokens are the single source of truth that stores design decisions distributed across design tools and coding languages. Using color formats If you work for an agency, the chances are that you add and refer to your colors in UI directly by their hex (#2F80ED), RGB (47 128 237) or HSL (214 84 56) values.

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A product design process for the real world

UX Collective

Research, journey maps, Figma, code, Keynote, data analysis… the list is huge and keeps growing. To fix this, I wrote down each part of my process so I’d have a playbook to refer to in the future. For some designers that means creating a detailed design spec, for others it means pushing code directly. This is that playbook.

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The Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming a Prolific Web Designer in 2023

Graphic Design Junction

A web designer working on that website is referred to as a front-end developer, while another web developer is referred to as a back-end developer. Knowledge of web coding languages is an essential qualification for web designers. The area of web design can be for you if you have both a creative and a technical side.