Hi there 👋 I'm Michelle and welcome to Edition 68 Design Insight. A weekly newsletter for creatives with a focus on design.
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📃 3 Articles
Designing the perfect button
The article in 3 ideas:
A good button must be identifiable, findable, and clear
Use button text to clearly explain to the user what will happen when they click a button. Text should be in simple language so it’s easy to understand.
Placement of buttons is important - you want the most useful, important buttons to be near the top and easy to see.
How I Answer Email in 17 Minutes a Day - My System
The video in 3 ideas:
It’s easier to maintain your inbox once it’s empty than to get to empty in the first place.
Unsubscribe from everything that isn’t absolutely essential into your email inbox. Anything you can't miss, filter into a Reading list to remove it from your inbox.
Turn on the quick entry feature if you use a task manager like Things or Todoist for an instant efficiency boost.
Tools Shape Our Products
The article in 3 ideas:
The tools we use have a direct influence on what we create with them. They allow us to do things that would be difficult or impossible to achieve with just our hands.
An optimal tool will augment our abilities whereas an inferior tool will de-augment them. Imagine trying to write with a pencil that has a brick taped to it!.
A good user interface tells you what you can do. It can also suggest to you things you could do.
🔨 2 Tools/Resources
100+ call-to-action examples for every desired action.
An open-source color system for building accessible, nice-looking color palettes.
🎨 1 Design Tip
Design Tip
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Til next week 👋
Michelle