Watch: A conversation with Jony Ive
Stripe recently published the recording of this inspiring chat between their CEO Patrick Collison and Jony Ive. Some incredible insight into how Ive thinks about product design, why good design is important and why it’s important to talk about the immeasurable aspects of design to infuse a sense of soul and care.
Improve your design
I came across this short video that was packed full of great design advice, tips and principles. I already follow a lot of the ideas in this video in my day-to-day work, and even if you do too, this is still a solid video and definately worth a watch.
My favourite sessions from Config 2024
Here is a selection of my favourite sessions from Figma’s Config 2024. Go check them out! A look inside teenage engineering An inspiring interview with Jesper Kouthoofd, the CEO of teenage engineering and Chief Design Officer of Rabbit. Lost Found in the details I’m a big fan of Jessica Hische, and this talk was fantastic […]
Simple tips to improve your UI design
The following are some tips I have found to be most impactful when either designing new, or cleaning up and modernising a user interface. These aren’t hard rules, I find that what ‘feels right’ can often better than sticking to rigid rules or systems, but these are a good guide. 1. Reduce borders The more […]
Simple, yet powerful
Simple, yet powerful. This is one of my guiding principles when designing and building a user-interface. Your app should be simple enough that your users can get started easily without much friction, but provide the ability for power-users to thrive. Simple Powerful You will need to find your balance of simple/powerful to empower all your […]
Nested corner radii
When designing a user interface with rounded corners you will likey run into situtation where you have nested rounded corners. It could be a button in a card or input, or a box inside a modal. What should the inner radius be? The easy way out is to just use the same radius, but it […]