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So I haven't been able to give back to the design community as much as I'd like to this year, but now that I have some time, I decided to join in on ADPList.
If you've being wanting to converse for a while now, do feel free to schedule a session with me:
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For designers with goals to secure a REMOTE JOB in 2024, I found this list of 150+ REMOTE STARTUPS hiring in January 2024.
Do your due diligence and apply. Check the company’s career pages, and LinkedIn, confirm opening roles, and shoot your shot.
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Working too hard without rest always come with a cost, I just didn't know how much cost it came with.
This has spent sometime in my drafts, but here is my experience when I prioritised money over everything and how it impacted my design career.
ENJOY!!!
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Know any good motion/interaction UI/UX designer looking for a foreign remote gig?
Need someone really good, shoot your shot if you interested.
rts appreciated! + dms open
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Hey, I need a brand designer, remote full time
Urgently hiring, if you can start tomorrow awesome
Comment portfolio below 🙏🏽 Don’t DM, unless we are mutuals.
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"I strive for two things in design: simplicity and clarity. Great design is born of those two things." -- Lindo Leader, graphic designer and creator of the FedEx logo.
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Feeling overwhelmed about sharing their design work Yeah, you’re not alone!
It doesn’t have to be so hard, so let’s break it down step by step.
Part 1: thread 🧵👇🥷
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I understand you want to be a world class designer, but please do learn to plan for Rest and recovery as you go about your weekly activities. Its worrisome to be receiving messages about designers with high Bp and other concerning health issues
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Randomly found some cool Figma effect tutorials on X; you can give them a try, they could add subtle flare to your designs.
🧵 👇
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Watching 2 designers in my network land foreign remote jobs this previous month is such an amazing feeling, and being a part of that journey and process brings another level of joy to my heart, so excited for the win!!
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Struggling to share your work?
Here are a few posting strategies and how to build consistency so you don't feel overwhelmed.
It doesn’t have to be so hard.
Part 2: thread 🧵👇🥷🏽
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Grateful for another year 🙌🏽
2024, the best yet….
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Looking for my first design gig/job 🙏🏽 you can pay me in experience and exposure.
Help retweet, my employer may be on your timeline. Anon do your work 🥹
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Going from an idea to watching users pay for it, not 1 or 2 but 110 users???
That's an amazing feelinggg 🥷🥷
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Definitely need a design buddy, someone to talk to while designing, way too many thoughts in my head, but it'd be fun to share when it gets too quiet.
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📆 Planning for 2024: A Thread 🚀
So, it's that time of year when we all start thinking about our goals and aspirations for the year ahead. 🌟
For those who need help planning theirs and are not sure the best way to go about it, here is how I plan mine. 🗂️
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It's crazy how Figma community has landed me more clients than anything else has this year
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Decided to go with the dark mode for the invoice dashboard I posted last night, here is day 4
@Johnogaga4
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Met my love on a trip to Nairobi, he gave me a mentos gum cause I left the house without brushing my teeth that morning. Met again at a Go-karting center and it’s been 7 years of pure bliss together ❤️
Couples… don’t all speak at once but… how did you meet your other half?
Indulge me I’m a romantic!
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A snippet of some work done for the first client project for the day, off to the next one 👀
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I might or might not be hiring, but if I see what I like, definitely poaching for a full-time remote role.
Designers! Share your latest design works in the comments. 🤩
This year is not about humility, BRAG about your work! 🔥
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Currently frustrated by my dev on this client project, any senior-level react and tailwind frontend dev available for a quick project of 2 - 4 weeks' worth of work?
Need your time 6 - 8 hours a day so we can wrap up this project and hand it off to this client, I need speed.
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Its almost the end of 2023, and I am grateful for the things I built this year:
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Lets see what 2024 brings, still got 3 more to ship, stay
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Sometimes, not everything needs a redesign; a simple touch-up is fine really.
Before & After.
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Definitely having fun exploring
@Rayna_UI
mid-work
File manager Design
Exploration
#002
#designedwithraynaui
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For those asking for JOB BOARDS: here is a list of job boards you can find REMOTE ROLES:
Remote Jobs and freelance work
Thread........🧵 Do your due diligence and set up alerts, sign up on the most active ones, keep an eye out for the not-so-active ones, and be smart about it.
For designers with goals to secure a REMOTE JOB in 2024, I found this list of 150+ REMOTE STARTUPS hiring in January 2024.
Do your due diligence and apply. Check the company’s career pages, and LinkedIn, confirm opening roles, and shoot your shot.
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A snippet into what got me awol these past few weeks 👀
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I’m going to sponsor 10 people for the Synthera Fellowship Cohort for any of the courses below:
Career Development, Freelance, No-code, Illustration course, brand design, Motion and Entrepreneurship.
Comment with your preferred course and why you want this.
I’ll be picking at
🚨 Be a catalyst for creativity!
Join our 'Sponsor a Creative' initiative at Synthera.
Empower someone's learning journey and watch us unlock their potential. Your support can shape futures!
Let's shape the future of design together! To get started, send us a DM or an email
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Building out the first version of my personal website design is the only way I could beat the portfolio curse before it never leaves my Figma board.
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I've always been an advocate for the "Saas" industry as a designer, so let's talk a little bit about what it is and why if you struggling to find a niche, you should try niching as a Saas product designer this year.
Quick intro - 1/6
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The full time role of job hunting - Tips on how to land the remote job of your dreams.
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Design bro just got his freshly served breakfast, don't catch feelings, I don't recommend it.....
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People who ain’t as good as you are getting noticed and getting jobs by sharing subpar work out here.
Don’t let the effort and time that you put into your work sit in your Figma drafts.
Share something today!
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Sneak peak into a presentation for one of our new clients at Rvysion. Excited for this project.
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To kick off a tradition of giving every year I celebrate my birthday. I would like to give out 100k to 5 people (20k each) who need it for data, designers only 🙌
Let me know why you need it and a link to the works you've done so far. Picking randomly
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Launched 4 personal side projects this year, and got another one almost ready to launch by the end of the month. Yet I barely talk about them as much as I'd like to.
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Had an issue with my GBP account on
@greyfinance
a while back. And this just came in with a heartfelt note. This definitely earned a lifetime user ❤️. Thank you for the merch and for the amazing work from the
@greyfinance
team. Rooting for y’all
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I want to run a quick 72-hour private logo design challenge, not sure if I should do this but:
If you are interested, the winner gets $100
The goal is mainly me trying to find someone I can work with for client projects that keep requesting for branding.
Fill the link below:
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Hired two designers, thank you all 🙏🙏
Hey, I need a brand designer, remote full time
Urgently hiring, if you can start tomorrow awesome
Comment portfolio below 🙏🏽 Don’t DM, unless we are mutuals.
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UDC is over; I can go back to ghost mode in peace. It was fun while it lasted 🙌
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As an introvert, posting here has always felt like climbing Everest.
Balancing a demanding job, personal life, and staying active on social media?
For sure feels overwhelming. We’re constantly told to put ourselves out there, but damn, it can feel like a heavy burden.
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One thing that has helped me scale in my career is not just putting myself out there by sharing my works.
But knowing when and how to network with people and ask the right questions.
That is why
@Johnogaga4
and I are cooking a simple template to help designers when networking.
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Designing components has to be my favorite part of landing page designs.
From the inception sketches to the little design details and elements while using content to inform the design illustrations.
Love the flow.
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Figma needs a feature where I can be designing on a file and can hide myself whenever someone else joins the file. Basically be invisible 🤔
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Built something small but with endless possibilities for my friends and I
Like our own little corner of the world 🥹
It’s public beta but with limited access for now. Still got a lot to fix tho but I love it regardless 😍
Check it out
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It's live but still a work in progress tho, will finish cleaning up content properly by the end of the day if work doesn't choke me by the neck.
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Dear designer, this is a new week. It time to finally finish that design you abandoned, read that book you've been postponing, buy that gadget you need, pitch that brilliant idea you have, collaborate with that designer you admire.
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Really honoured to have being a speaker, I appreciate y’all for inviting me
@blocasset
I learnt so much about scaling your income as a designer on that space 💜
Hearing my co-speakers;
@druids01
@isaaczara_
share insights, literally was an amazing experience. Thank you 🔥🔥🔥
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Haven’t been public with the Studio for over a year now, so watch this space going forward, I’ll be stepping into the light now!
Wanna see what I’ve been up to, designing, building? then check out
@TeamRvysion
That’s my little baby right there ❤️
Since 2023, we’ve been building behind the scenes, and now we’re ready to share our story.
Another studio? Nah, we’re so much more than that. We’re builders who live and breathe craft and stories.
So join other founders who trust Rvysion, and let's build your stories together.
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Been a while I shared any designs on Twitter so here is a conceptual one for the TL
Sales Dashboard Design
Exploration
#001
#designedwithraynaui
@Rayna_UI
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Had the opportunity to share a few thoughts with
@Johnogaga4
today. It truly was an humbling moment.
Thank you for the opportunity
#UDC2023
and to everyone who turned up, hope it was insightful 🙌🏽
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I don't particularly appreciate how most people paint working as a designer in a company as slavery and freelancing as the only way to freedom. Thats just misleading
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What are you working on today? 👀
Some snippets from the AutoCare project I started this week.
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Here is an exploration for a budget app, tried playing with a few colours to see how the result would be visually
here is my submission for day 8
@Johnogaga4
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I had the opportunity to help a friend with designs for his startup, Fusion.
A gaming product for remote teams to bond over virtual curated question games.
I am not one to share design work I am not proud of, but here are snippets of the project I did for him a while back.
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Do we have any designer in the Nigerian space who can do all of this?
I’m curious what it takes to hire one
🤔 if I can afford it, definitely would love you to join my team.
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The day you realise, your Job security is the ability to get your next job, not keep your current one. Your view of career growth would take a different turn.
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The leads just keep pouring in! 8 active clients! The team is strong, the Studio is growing, and I am definitely loving these moments 🥰
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For designers looking to get technical - Scrimba is a good place to start!
Don't be left behind these interesting times we find ourselves 😅
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For the designers in my dm asking how can I connect/network better, here is a curated resources I and
@Johnogaga4
worked on. Check it out guys.
If writing is not your thing, and you are looking to draft better messages to network, Our FREE resource template will help you draft the ideal messages you need to share with future connections
This template is free —
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I have been so occupied with improving my studio processes, team structure, and improving my client lead gen and funnel.
Drowning in work 😪
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Yay!! Rayna UI is LIVE!!!!!!
🚀 Exciting News! Rayna UI is now live on Product Hunt! 🥳
Your design buddy, guiding you into a realm of seamless productivity
👉 Check us out on Product Hunt
Give us an upvote, leave a comment, and help us spread the word!
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Here are my ten people:
@asuk_gift
- No code
@Holardiplenty1
- Motion
@Ololade_favy
- Illustration
@La_Esperer
- Career Dev
@JuliusAyomide21
- Freelance
@AnikeMide
- Brand
@emjay_thefirst
- Motion
@lyndaobitolo_
- Career Dev
@byjid3
- Freelance
@2cene
- No code
An extra 11th
I’m going to sponsor 10 people for the Synthera Fellowship Cohort for any of the courses below:
Career Development, Freelance, No-code, Illustration course, brand design, Motion and Entrepreneurship.
Comment with your preferred course and why you want this.
I’ll be picking at
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Do you have free time and no new clients as a freelance designer? And you are good with Framer?
Here’s something simple but time-consuming to try that helped me make $5,000 with Framer.
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1. Go to the Framer template gallery
2. Find business/saas Framer templates and see
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I spent the last two days mocking up more sections and decided to approach this from the POV of building Lego blocks, in case you are wondering why this approach is.
Like “Lego blocks,” I can mock up multiple versions by mixing and matching in no time.
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I went into that space not knowing
@folanski
was the host, and then
@codemathics
came onboard as a speaker too, omo I felt pressured ngl 😅
At the end, It was a great experience being in the same space as these great men, a tremendous thrill for me.
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It's fun to use my Twitter as a dumping ground for my WIP projects.
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Some more rejected design components from last week's project.
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First live workshop in my private gang community 🤭, today we'd be talking about building a digital reputation: personal branding. Can't wait to share all I have for them today 😍
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So excited for the next few months and the growth so far this year
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Every time you deliberately combine design with something else, you become an order of magnitude more “unique” in terms of skill set.
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A new day, a new week, nothing beats the refreshed feeling of getting back to work after a long weekend.
Minor Studio update: Signed a new client over the weekend, needs a quick landing page for his AutoCare brand.
Hopefully, it shouldn't last more than a week.
Fingers 🤞
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IMO: Designing for SaaS is less about putting a lot of information on a page; even if they are power users, it’s about connecting experiences, people, and tasks.
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Work today was crazy didn't have enough time to work on day 5 challenge with
@Johnogaga4
had to quickly design this simple restaurant-finder website design. 🙂
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My path is still in flux, my journey is still ongoing. I may fail today or tomorrow in spectacular ways. But I will never stop pushing forward regardless.
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The realest people in life are those guys who summarise lengthy YouTube videos into bullet points 🙏
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Biggest shoutout to
@marvisIghedosa
@_shyone
@realmosesjames
@_mavenart
and the entire team that made Untitled Design Conference possible!! Definitely backing you guys up any day-anytime bigger and better 🔥🔥 Can’t wait for the next one my bosses 🍾🍾
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If you want this template, just know it is not pretty and not beautifully designed like most planner templates out there, this is my own little chaotic corner.
So if you still want it, here you go:
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Designers who build have to be my favorite people ❤️
Plugins? Web app? Tool? Digital product resource? Anything, just build stuffs
If you building something let’s connect 🔥
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No make the logo and the font bigger, or the button bigger; he just loved the first version straight up and didn’t want anything else.
Clients like these are heavenly sent! It was fun, and I'm glad I could hand off the AutoCare landing page project to the dev.
On to the next!
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Hey! It’s a new week!
Take care of yourself.
Wake up early.
Exercise.
Stop worrying.
Have breakfast.
You got this.
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These guys aim to help you secure, sustain, and scale off the jobs you desire and aim for, to live on your own terms if you wish, and to have resources that enable you to thrive.
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I’ve faced the highs and lows in my career and learned a ton along the way. What used to be late-night conversations with my inner circle—sharing design tales, career truths, entrepreneurial insights, and plenty of laughs—is now becoming something bigger.
Introducing The
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I believe first impression with clients matter,
having your cam turned on during introductions is very key to having a solid relationship during the project timeline and helping your clients put a face to who they are working with.
My team definitely needs to work on this🥲
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More shots of Fusion dashboard with the nav, modal, table, and empty state components.
I am not sure I like it, honestly, but the client loves it, and I am willing to come to a compromise; I can’t wait for this product to go out of beta testing.
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Struggling with smooth handoffs to developers? Here’s a checklist that’s never let me down for long-term projects or when handing off to a new designer:
Two key elements are essential:
✅ Handoff Design Document (checklist below)
✅ Compilation of Design Files
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Working on a site for a friend’s productized service biz—sharing a few sneak peeks.
Just a one-pager, though, simple, clean, and dark-themed.
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