James 🤌🏻
@jamesm
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Design & Product @clerkdev. Freelance projects @wireframe. Buy icons @theiconicapp. Previously: @tailwindlabs
Joined April 2008
🌿 Open for new projects starting in 2025 →. Over the weekend, I gave a lick of paint. ✨
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✨[THREAD]✨. Figma (Adobe 👀) friends, in this thread, I will help people understand how I design these little cards I use in my client work. I get DM’s and messages about them all the time, so I thought I would share a bit of my process.
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🥳 Introducing @theiconicapp. Free, “do wtf you want with” pixel-perfect icons. New icons added every week. 👉🏻
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🎩. A few people have asked me how to design these simple grid backgrounds. I’ve put together a thread on how you can do this yourself. It’s really easy. 👇🏻
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🧐 I’ve been playing with a new icon style tonight—opacity overload. The top ones are in the normal state; the bottom is hover states.
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🗣️ Let’s talk shadows!. Recently, I’ve noticed a few people doing this sort of stroke treatment on containers, buttons and other elements, and it hurts my feelings, lol.
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One thing that all agency websites have in common is over-the-top, fancy as fuck navigation. ⚡️HD:
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🪩 Introducing the brand new Clerk. ‣ Our entire team has been working tirelessly for the past few months to completely revamp the marketing site. I'm super proud of it and everyone involved in getting it out the door!
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Let's get wavy 🌊. Lots of you have requested a tutorial on how to create this wavy line texture I designed for a recent client project. This Twitter thread will show you how to do it. It's super easy!. 👇
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🦚. I think people will love all the little details in this template. ✨
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🙃 For the last month or so, I’ve been in the worst creative slump. I’ve not shared much of what I’ve been working on because I’ve not felt confident in the work. However, this week has been better! I designed these little illustrations for a client. ↓
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💅 I dedicated some time this week designing some new concepts for hero sections for @tailwindui
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Designing breakpoints is a heavy brain work. But this header is going to look siiiiiiiiiiiiick when it’s finished 😎
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Still wild to me that this UI made it to the final production. 😅.
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Honestly, design is just about thoughtfully managing whitespace. 🥼
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🥳🏡 . Never in a million years thought that drawing rectangles for a living that I’d be able to buy my own house, never mind and investment property. Excited for the next few years! 💙
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📆 We’ve started the year at @tailwindlabs designing calendar components. Looking forward to shipping some of these soon 😎
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✨🤝 I’m building out this visual style tonight. Theres something about crisp 1px strokes and opacity that is a match made in heaven.
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✨ Tutorial ✨. A few people were curious how to design the radar/scan element here. It’s actually really easy and won’t take you longer than 10 minutes. 👇🏻
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🍋. The lime green is poppin'. The next step is to figure out how to smooth that border radius transition in Figma. 😶🌫️
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No fucking way. I’ve just learned that if you double click the Frame/Autolayout/text (whatever it is) icon in the layers panel, Figma will jump to it. 🤯
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😍 I've been thoroughly impressed with the work @brian_lovin has been doing on @trycampsite recently. I especially admire his meticulous approach to buttons, containers, and other UI elements.
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💭 . What are some of the best-designed applications on the web right now? I need some inspiration.
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👋🏻 Some personal news. It's my last week at @tailwindlabs. I'm extremely fortunate to have worked on some incredible projects, and I'm immensely proud of the work I done over the last 2½ years. The experience allowed me to learn and grow in ways I never thought possible.
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Can we all agree that capitalised eyebrow labels feel old as shit on the web now?
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Does anyone know where I can get high-quality renders of hands holding a device? I'm trying mid-journey but I can never get the right outcome.
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I’m really proud of the work I did on the new refresh 🥳 my first project since I joined a month ago!. Go check it out and let me know what you think 💙.
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Is anyone aware of any tools or plugins where you could recreate those whispy, dust particles? I’ve tried and failed in Figma 😅
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🌁 Today I learned that you can convert HEIC files directly to JPG’s in macOS Monterey.
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🥳 I’m proud of all the work we have done over the last few months. Designing all the templates from scratch and then completely redesigning @tailwindui from the ground up. It was a monster!. → → →
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✨ Working on some application UI components/page concepts this morning.
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🤭. I can’t wait to show everyone what we’ve been working on for the last few months at @tailwindlabs 🔥
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✨ Last year, I got to work with a company called Ender. I probably had too much fun on some of the dark-mode illustration work 😅. SHIT. TON. OF. FUN. 🥳
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🪤. Some client work from the last couple of years:. 1. Sendstack [@getsendstack].Respect your readers with the ethical email newsletter platform that puts people’s privacy first.
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Let’s all appreciate Nationwide’s new branding 😍.Kudos to whoever designed that 👏🏻
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🥳 It’s been a fun couple of days working with @steveschoger + @adamwathan getting familiar with the TailwindUI components. A little teaser of something I’m putting together.
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✨ Very* early concept for what’s going to be a HUGE redesign of the @tailwindcss docs. Excited about this one! . 👇🏻
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🪩 More iterations. Duo-tone, 1.5px stroke icon experiment is hitting hard.
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🫴🏻 Happy Monday troops! . This morning I’ve been working on some iterations for this hero. What are you working on today?
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✨ I always underestimate the amount of time and effort it takes to meticulously refine these small illustrations 😅
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🍭 We've just plugged Tailwind v3.3, and I had the task of designing a cool blog/Twitter card. It's always super fun to work on these!
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