Unconventional Design Tips For Non-Designers

Create good designs with simple straight forward tips

Edition 051 of Design Insight

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📃 3 Articles

20 Unconventional Design Tips For Non-Designers

The article in 3 ideas:

1. The colors you choose for your brand or your designs should connect to your story as a person as opposed to what’s trending right now.

2. Contrast is an excellent tool to use to make different visual elements stand out. You can use scale, color, and shape to create contrast.

3. Avoid using 100% black or white as they create too much contrast. Consider softening them to reduce their intensity.

20 Unconventional Design Tips For Non-Designers ➜

This Is Your Brain on Exercise

The article in 3 ideas:

1. Exercise is good for your brain.

2. Like with our muscles during exercise our brains break down and build up new synapses (connections) which leads to a better brain that allows us to be more creative, more alert, and less depressed.

3. Exercise plays a big role in mental health. Regular exercise can reduce the effects of depression by balancing our hormones.

This Is Your Brain on Exercise ➜

The Simple Method That Makes Creating Content Look & Feel Ridiculously Easy

The article in 3 ideas:

1. Brain dump your ideas immediately.

2. Create a Next Up queue to refine your inbox and prevent overwhelm.

3. Let your ideas simmer but keep them where you can see them.

The Simple Method That Makes Creating Content Look & Feel Ridiculously Easy ➜

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🔨 2 Tools/Resources

Open Source Color System ➜

• Simple Color System for Complex Digital Interfaces

Fluid Type Scale Calculator ➜

• Generate font size variables for a fluid type scale with CSS clamp. Grab the output CSS and drop it into any design system.

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🎨 1 Design Tip

Design Tip

Adrian Twarog 🦘 @adrian_twarog

Brutalism! It's different. No grids No containers Odd spacing FUNKY FONTS Everything you know goes out the door to make a unique design that throws tradition out of the window, making something different and yet eye-catching, like Figma, or Gumroad or this tweet!

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