How A UI Designer Uses Todoist

Productivity isn't about doing more things - it's about doing the right things

Edition 039 of Design Insight

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🗃 3 Resources

📃 Article - The Secret Career Defining Power of Systems

The article in 3 ideas:

1. Our systems today are our future tomorrow.

2. It is the repetition of the system that compounds over time and will massively increase the odds of your success.

3. If you base your confidence on completing your daily system (process) instead of the results you create internal validation. Complete your daily system and you will feel pride and confidence.

🔨 Resource - Conic.css

• Source: @argyleink

• A resource of conic style gradients (these are more visually interesting than linear or radial gradients). Simply click the gradient to copy the CSS to your clipboard.

🔨 Resource - It’s Centered That

• Source: @supremohq

• A fun skill to test your designer's eye. You have to guess whether or not the dot is in the center of each shape.

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🎨 2 Design Tips

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

How to think about Hierarchy

Denislav Jeliazkov @DenisJeliazkov

📏 Hierarchy exists in all aspects of our designs. The goal is to separate primary (the things that need to be acted on) from secondary (not so important things)/ A good layout will always start with the primary point and then proceed to less important ones.

Here is how I learn UI design

Jim Zarkadas @JimZarkadas

Here is how I learn UI design. I'm working on an admin-type of product with inline forms, and many tables full of data to display. Since I don't have much experience with this type of products, I found @linear one of the most well-designed ones and started learning from them 🙂

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📃 1 Article I Wrote

How A UI Designer Uses Todoist

If you are a UI designer yourself or someone considering using Todoist as your task management tool, you’ll find this article helpful.

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🐦 Top Tweet Of The Week

Sam Williams @iamsam_williams

Each day you are planting good and bad seeds. Go for a run? Good seed planted Eat junk? Bad seed planted Good night's sleep? Good seed planted These seeds grow over the years. You either end up with a great forest or a decaying one.

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In case you missed it, here are last week's most popular links:

1. 6 Procrastination Triggers And How To Overcome Them As A Designer

2. Design System Tip For Naming Colors

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