6 Procrastination Triggers And How To Overcome Them

"Procrastination Is The Thief Of Time"

Feb 4

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🗃 3 Resources

📃 Article - Performance Design: The Illusion of Speed

The article in 3 ideas:

A slow website will impact a user's trust in that website. Even a fraction of a second delay is enough to make a user abandon the website and go somewhere else.
There are two types of performance that can be addressed to improve the user experience: measurable + perceived.
Make use of skeleton screens or artificial progress bars to increase the users' trust in a site. Be sure you've done your research though and are implementing the best solution for your site!

Link To Article: Performance Design: The Illusion of Speed

🔨 Tool - Polka Dot Generator

Source: @screenspan
This tool will generate Polka Dots in CSS. A great way to add a little bit of fun to your websites.
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🔨 Resource - Checklist Design

Source: @george_hatzis
This is a collection of design checklists designed to save you time when creating various design components. It's also a great way to sanity-check your designs before sign off.
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🎨 2 Design Tips

This month we're focusing on design tips from other designers on Twitter 😃

Design systems tip for naming colors

luis. @disco_lu

Design systems tip 💡 When naming colours: • Don't – use descriptive values such as light / dark • Do – use high/low contrast in name values This makes it a lot more scalable for when you want to flip themes on a component

Diagram with examples showing Figma and code, showing how to use "high" and "low" contrast values on your style names instead of "light" and "dark"

How to use chips

Adrian Twarog 🦘 @adrian_twarog

🍟 Chips are a great way to let users click through small data parts such as users, tags, or action items. Try using them next time you have a list of items such as users that could be grouped, or edited with a single click. Want to learn more UI elements! Check out enhanceui!

📃 1 Article I Wrote

6 Procrastination Triggers And How To Overcome Them As A Designer

Whether it’s staring at a blank page or drinking a third cup of coffee to face organizing your emails, the urge to procrastinate is always hiding.

It’s our lizard brain in action trying to keep us on the easiest path possible.

Procrastination can be difficult to overcome but the key is to become aware of it and learn how to tackle it depending on what form it takes.

In this article, I’ll share with you what I know about procrastination triggers (the things that cause you to procrastinate) and how to overcome them.

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🐦 Top Tweet Of The Week

Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook_

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