Nick Babich
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Product designer. Editor-in-chief of @uxplanet
Joined May 2011
12 principles of animation. Excellent summary of fundamental animation principles that can be applied to UI design. π·: @LachinaCreative
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10 Principles of Motion Design. Based on the Disney's twelve basic principles of animation. π·: @jrcanest
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Mobile design UI components . Line design system is an excellent collection of UI components for mobile appsβfrom action buttons to pulldown menus. Every component features anatomy, states & behavior, and design dos and donts.
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Principles of Design (Cheatsheet). Nice summary of principles that designers need to consider when creating products
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Design Systems Database. Massive collection of best-in-class design systems with visual styles, components and references from leading UI teams.
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How to create usability with motion: 12 visual principles, from easing to zoom-in. π·: @UX_in_Motion
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Product Design Cheatsheet. Guide for early-stage product teams on how to rapidly experiment, learn and build new products.
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Data Visualization Catalogue. Massive collection of data visualizations (100 visualizations) that will help you find the one that you need for your project.
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2023 Designer's Toolkit. The top tools product creators use today, according to the @uxtoolsco
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Color scale generator. The tool helps build a color palette. It generates tints and shades based on the primary color you provide. You can play with darkness and lightness, as well as angle and saturation of colors.
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Spotify Ways of Working in Figma. A slide deck from the Spotify Design team that describes the process the team follows when working in Figma, from basics like getting access to Figma & creating projects to more complex activities like creating specs.
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Understanding Accessibility. A tool for web designers that explains how to use color, typography and media to create accessible interfaces.
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Color tints & shades generator. ColorDesigner is an online tool that will help you build a color palette and generate tints and shades based on it.
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π UI spacing cheatsheet . This spacing system was created using a principle of proximity: elements positioned close together are perceived as belonging to the same group. This system works well for dynamic spacing. π
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π Mobile UI Design Cheatsheet. It covers essential UI design elements, from basic functional controls to content containers like sheets, snackbars, and dialogs.
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π Typography Anatomy. Ultimate typography cheatsheet that covers type anatomy, positioning, and spacing
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Data Visualization GIF maker . An online tool from Google that allows you to create three types of data visualization (rectangles, circles, and racetracks) and export it as GIF.
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Product Design Roadmap . Excellent overview of product design process along with practical recommendations for individual activities. π:
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How to design the proper data visualization. A dataset of 100 visualizations and practical tips on choosing the proper data visualization type depending on input type and function.
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Guide to building a color palette. A systematic approach for finding and using colors in user interface design.
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How To Design Nested Context Menus. A comprehensive guide to creating intuitive context menus for apps + a safe triangle technique. ποΈ by @michaelvillar.
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UX Design Process (with methods and tools). π·: Francois Bouniq-Mercier
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Laws Of UX Design. Overview of the most popular user experience laws to follow when creating products
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6 principles for better transition animations. 1οΈβ£ Fade in and out with opacity.2οΈβ£ Scale to add liveliness.3οΈβ£ Maintain consistent directionality.4οΈβ£ Balance speed.5οΈβ£ Prioritize, order, and group.6οΈβ£ Establish spatiality.
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Free mobile wireframe kit. Cutframe is an open-source mobile wireframe kit with 250+ components, 200+ screens, and 170+ icons for mobile devices, available in light and dark mode.
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Design Research Framework. A visual guide for designers on how to apply UX research methods to make better design decisions. π:
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How to write better error messages. Excellent guide on how to design clear, helpful and inclusive error messages. ποΈ by @jenninadler .
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16 little UI design rules that make a big impact. A design case study to redesign an example user interface using simple rules such as using space to group related elements and using font weights to make text less or more prominent .
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π UI Spacing Cheatsheet. Simple approach for choosing spacing between individual elements in the user interface
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UX Research Notion Templates. Free collection of Notion templates for various research activities, from creating a research plan to running a survey. π π·: @_odett
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How to design a complex table for mobile. Nice design pattern that allows users to explore rows and columns separately. π:
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UX research methods guide & cheat sheet. Practical guide on to conduct UX research with tips for choosing the proper research methods.
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Primer Prism, a tool for creating consistent and accessible color palettes.
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UI design checklist. A massive collection of the best practices for everything related to UI designβcomponents, pages, user flows and branding. ποΈ by @george_hatzis .
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Why personas should be about the problems and challenges people face
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Psychology of Design. Excellent collection of 106 design principles and cognitive biases that affect product design. Each principle comes with relevant examples and practical tips.
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Principles of design. Building blocks of user interface design . π·: Anita Green.
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Fine-crafted loading animation: smooth visual transition π
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Mobile Wireframe Kit for Figma. Free UI kit with more than 200 screens for onboarding, photo browsing, payment, and other scenarios. The screens are available in both light and dark themes.
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Create beautiful moving gradients. ShaderGradient is an online tool that helps create beautiful gradients. You can customize colors, shapes & motion properties. The tool is also available in Figma, Framer, and as a React component.
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π Visual Vocabulary. This poster assists UI designers in selecting the right type of data visualization depending on the message they want to communicate
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UX Research Questions. Excellent collection of nearly 400 questions for product design research. The list includes scenarios, sample answers, and follow-up questions. π·: @mazedesignHQ
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UI Design Tips. Collection of practical design tips for popular UI componentsβfrom call-to-action buttons & cards to menus & modal windows. Every recommendation is provided in a do and don't format.
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π Product Design Methods In A Mind Map. This diagram acts as a visual aid that helps product designers choose the right method for a tasks at hand.
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Paper Wireframe Kit. Design kit for Figma that allows you to visualize low-fidelity concepts quickly (both web and mobile apps).
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UI Components Gallery. A repository of user interface components like buttons, tabs, breadcrumbs from various design systems.
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π Masonry UI Grid Specs. Masonry grids allow positioning items based on available vertical & horizontal space. Great choice for pages with infinite scrolling. Ready-to-use masonry UI grid for web & mobile. π
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UI Components Handbook. Collection of popular user interface components with guides on how to use them, Figma design samples & code snippets (HTML/Tailwind CSS).
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The good line-height. This tool calculates the right line-height for every text size in the scale so it always fit the baseline grid.
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Design good practices. Guidelines to naming conventions, components structure and document organization. Essential tool for creating robust design systems. I bet youβll start naming layers in Figma after reading this guide. π.
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User interface component library . The Component Gallery is a repository of UI components based on examples from popular design systems like Material Design. Information about components includes styling and markup, interactivity and usage guidelines.
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π Design system token structure . Great example of organizing tokens for scalability. Tokens are structured in a specific order for varying levels of specificity. This structure helps maintain the integrity of the token system over time. π
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π Best design systems for mobile. Aviva: .Pinterest: .Line:
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Design Thinking Cheat Sheets. Design process, empathy mapping, synthesis and ideation. π·: @auropradhan
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Product Design Cheat Sheets. Practical tips for creating UX strategy, conducting user research, and running design critique sessions. π·: @TheCarnacki
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Design System Canvas. This canvas is one-page plan of your vision for a design system; it acts as the perfect starting point for the process of creating or upgrading a design system.
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Button Design Guide. A comprehensive guide on designing great buttons: button anatomy, types, states, styles, and accessibility requirements.
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Designing With AI: Guidebook. A set of methods, best practices and examples for designing with AI from Google. π:
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Font pairing for Google Fonts. Fontjoy is an online tool for finding the best font combinations. Font pairs are created from free and open-source font families. You can change font similarlyβfrom very similar to high contrast.
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Dos and don'ts on designing for accessibility. Tips on how to offer an excellent experience for users with low vision, deaf and hard of hearing, dyslexia, motor disabilities, users on the autistic spectrum, and users of screen readers. π·: @krwpn
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Gamification in product design . Gamification is about applying game elements in a non-game context in order to make your product or service more engaging. The sketches contain examples of game mechanics, techniques for increasing user engagement, and more. π·: @krisztaszerovay
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π Good line height generator. This tool automatically calculates the perfect line height for any text & grid combination
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Portfolio Inspirations for Product Designers. Pafolios is an excellent collection of portfolio examples and case studies for Product, UI, and UX designers. You can filter the list to particular disciplines, such as illustration or UX writing.
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Playbooks For UX Designers. A step-by-step guide for common challenges UX designers faceβ from getting your first product design job to building a design system.
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π Notification Decision Tree. It will help you choose the right type of contextual notification depending on your goal
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π Errors & Alerts Decision Tree. If you wonder whether you should use inline error, banner, modal, toast, or empty state for your error message, use this tree to inform your decision.
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UX Questions Bank. Great collection of almost 400 questions designers can use during product discovery. You will find scenarios, sample responses, and follow-up questions for each question in this list.
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π Naming tokens in design system. Nice visual guide that shows the difference between different types of tokens and offers practical tips for token naming.
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π What Loading Pattern Should I Use? (Decision tree) . If youβre wondering whether you need to use a loading spinner, skeleton screen, or progress bar, this decision tree will help you choose the right loading pattern for your task.
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How to create a design system. A step-by-step guide on creating a new design system.
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π Design System Generator for Figma. This is a nice helper for setting up a quick design system in Figma. It helps with variables for color, typography, spacing, grids, radius, and shadows.
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Automated production of design specifications in Figma. Figma plugin that creates specs for UI components. Specs include the anatomy of a component, layout & spacing of layers with autolayout, and more.
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Screen Sizes for Apple Devices . Repository of screen sizes and technical details for Apple devices, along with the guides for icon, CarPlay and AppStore screenshots.
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Checklist Design. A collection of 50 checklists for UI components, pages and user flows. Each checklist helps you to consider the different states of a component and scenarios when you take a user from A to B. ποΈ by @george_hatzis .
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Common sign-up UI design patterns. Generic registration flows, activate with link or code scenarios, and emails for activate with code/link . π·: @TessGadd
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Good design practices. Guidelines to naming conventions, components structure and document organization.
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π UI Spacing Cheatsheet . Nice concept of UI spacing called "Spacing friendship" rooted in the Principle of Proximity and 8-point grid. π
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Open Design System Repository . Discover 40+ open design systems that come with UI kits for Figma.
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UI design reference library. Mobbin is a massive collection of best-in-class mobile & web app designs like YouTube, Instagram and Apple Music. It helps to streamline product research and design process.
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The Good Line-Height. Nice little tool that automatically calculates the perfect line height for any text & grid combination.
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π Mobile UI Design Cheatsheet. Great summary of common mobile UI terms for components and interaction patterns along with visual examples. π
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UX Cookbook. Handcrafted collection of recipes for everything related to UX design β user research, design, usability testing, and more.
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Design components in Figma. A very detailed review of the process of creating a text input component available in multiple variants: different sizes, inputs, field texts, icons, helpers, interaction states, and background colors.
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π Dropdown UI Cheatsheet. Essential rules to keep in mind when designing a dropdown to make it intuitive, accessible, and efficient
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Design inspiration on π. TrendingDesign is a curated collection of the finest graphic, UI and motion design found on π.
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Chart Design Dos and Don'ts. Practical recommendations from the Salesforce team for designing popular chart types like bar, line, plot, and scatter.
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π Responsive Grid System. Ready-to-use responsive grid system for web projects with reference values for Figma . π
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UX Research Methods: How to choose the right qualitative research methods. π·: @allisongrayce
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Name your Figma layers automatically with AI. Tired of naming all your layers in Figma? Autoname will do it for you. This Figma plugin will name your layers automatically.
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Design System Checklist. Open-source checklist that will help you plan, build and grow your design system. It covers design language, tokens, core components, and maintenance (support and documentation).
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How to measure the success of a design system. This cheatsheet will help you to understand how well the design system works for your organization.
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