Michal Malewicz
@michalmalewicz
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I Build, Optimize Conversion & Share How! →▧ Follow for insane value! Designed 500+ products, Fortune 500 etc, since 1998 CDO at: https://t.co/IKI8O6GJ7R
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Joined February 2011
Interesting choice to promote watching a 3:12h movie on a 2h battery life device. 😂. #VisionPro
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UX is dead. Paul sees that shift too. And so many are still in denial.
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Apple also uses points (not pixels) for the spatial design language. People following silly instagram tuts will now be weirded out ;)
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If you have great UI skills and over 1 year of experience designing (no real job experience needed) my friend's company is hiring - fully remote - $2.2 - $3.5K a month.
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🔥 It's one of those little things that I find extremely annoying in UI. Learn how to properly round the corners of boxes within boxes. A thread 👇
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🚨 Want to learn UI design for free? . From tips, to principles and tutorial videos - all in one place!. Here's a thread of my threads to help you out! .👇
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Great UI design starts with lots of bad UI design.
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UX requires thinking, analysis and time to get good. UI requires practice, practice and more practice.
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There are 5️⃣ Spatial Design principles that Apple shared in their guidelines. Let's explore them without the jargon. A 🦆ing thread 🧵
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Here's a quick exploration of Spatial UI design. Having a DARKER card on top of a lighter card? . Isn't it dark mode heresy?. Let me explain 🧵
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Color is difficult. Let's start with the very basics that often have junior designers confused. Let's talk about the color wheel 🧵👇
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We designed over 150 landing pages and for almost all of them we used this same layout formula. Here it is:
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Creating great UI design starts with creating lots of bad UI design.
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UI Design skills don’t grow overnight - for anyone. No matter how talented you are, you still need to get through lots of ugly before you start making beautiful projects.
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Graphics designers can become UI designers a lot quicker.
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6️⃣4️⃣ Quick, daily design tips. A thread 🧵. One tip will be added daily for 64 days, so follow and retweet 🔁 to stay in the loop ❤️ .👇. 💡Tip1: The distance between form fields needs to be big enough, so you can clearly see which field does a label relate to.
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The best UX designers don't try to be the smartest people in the room. Instead, they listen, observe and learn from others.
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Gradients can look great, but most designers actually make their designs WORSE by using them. Here's a quick tip thread on how to make awesome gradients! 👇
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It's not JUST a background blur and a random gradient border guys! . Here's a quick tutorial thread 🧵👇
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Custom UI Design is expensive! .Let's use Material Design for our app. The app after release:
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The UI first, then "UX" path is easier to be successful in. You simply get a job faster with only UI skills (vs UX skills and no UI) and you can learn the rest of UX as you go - in real world scenarios.
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The toughest designs for beginners are ones without any nice illustrations or photos to make them pleasant to the eye. In this post I’ll show you how to create the right hierarchy for a minimal product card without any graphics. A thread 🧵👇
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Designed any pricing pages lately?.Post them below so we can all inspire one another. GO!
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Excited to announce that I'm starting a new, FREE animation course on Monday. Weekly episodes to learn animations and micro-interactions from scratch. Subscribe here:.
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I believe Figma skills won’t be as relevant in the future, but they are now. So I’ll make a FREE figma masterclass course soon. 2-3 hours of video materials for ZERO dollars. Let me know if you want it.
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UX design is not about making things perfect. It's about making things better.
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I start all my designs with this color palette. Then I adjust the accent color ONLY. For 99% of products that one color change is enough. Save it for reference and please skip those ugly pastel backgrounds. Simple works best.
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Colors are tough! 😤. But don’t worry, because you can use many of the useful, beginner-friendly rules to get colors right!. Let’s explore color theory together in a thread! 🧵👇
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Here are 4 designers you should follow from last week's "Design showcase". Next opportunity to share your work on Thursday. For now focus on appreciating these 4:
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Monochrome design will be big in 2024. Here's a short thread of explorations.
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One mistake most designers make is designing for the most beautiful outcome!. Let's talk about it! 👇🧵
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UX is about how it works, but UI is about how it looks.
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This is how we did 99% of our landing pages at Squareblack. The most versatile layout settings imaginable. Bookmark it as I plan to share more of our workflow this way.
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Every single time you sit down to do some UX design, remember - your work is for the people, not you.
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This is tricky! I am a strong believer in practicing the visual design skills, but at some point you need to grasp the difference between an artsy "shot" and something that can work as a real product. How? 👇
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Awesome article and something I’ve also been saying for years 👏👏 .“User Research is a Waste of Time” by Lowell Stevens.
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If I see a design full of Lorem Ipsum, I give my feedback in Lorem Ipsum too 🤷♂️. Please don't be lazy.
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Some ux designer didn’t think this through. Or they want to cater to all the zombies out there 🤷♂️
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Imagining the X logo (hey 👋 @elonmusk) . A full reasoning breakdown made during a 1h hackathon in Stockholm, Sweden. A thread 🧵
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I've seen way too many app designs with decorative, script or funky-serif fonts. You're kicking yourself in the foot with choices like that so. Let's start with the complete basics about fonts. A thread 👇🧵
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The best UX designer is the one who can find the right balance of user needs, business requirements and technical limitations.
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🚨 I have made the only book about UI design trends and styles COMPLETELY FREE. Read the thread to find out more 🧵👇
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Designer! .Show just ONE WEB hero design project you did recently! . If they're good I'll remember you and pick 4 designers to showcase Tomorrow. If they're not good I'll tell you why. GO!.
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Today let's talk about a multi-select dropdown. 🚨 There are some tricky parts here most designers miss. 👇 Let's explore in a thread 🧵
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Now be honest: .Did you become a designer because coding is hard?. I have.
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This week's designers you should follow are here!. Get inspired and grow your network!. The four are:
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When you're new to UX design, remember that there are more people who can code than who can do good design.
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UX Designers should design. UX Researchers should research.
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If you're looking for a quick shortcut to success as a UX designer, have your mom sit down and try it out before showing it off to the world.
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Building the app. And you can now sign up to get notified when it launches.
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Today I want to talk about a design from another angle. This design looks quite good, but it has one important flaw. Let's explore in a thread. 👇
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Designers seeing their work coded for the first time:
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To those who are saying about connecting it to power - I think you're taking life a little too seriously ;-).
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If you want to be a UX designer, you have to have empathy for people and their needs.
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Fact: Low fidelity wireframes were invented by people bad at UI who wanted to still be called "designers" 🤷♂️.
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There were UX designers out there even before the term was invented. It's all just words.
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I once witnessed a dropdown with just one option. No, really!. Let's explore why it's a bad idea in a thread 👇
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UX design is a method of thinking and being able to get inside someone else's head.
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Spacing + Typography + Hierarchy + Contrast = good UI design. Here's how to achieve that 👇
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Everything in a UX design must serve a purpose. If it doesn't, get rid of it.
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Today let's talk about Button size progression. Many online tutorials give you some 3 random height numbers and call it a day. When building complex products it's often NOT enough. A thread 👇🧵
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Inspiration time!.FOUR designers you should follow right now!. This week was full of amazing submissions and the FOUR I picked are:
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Being a great UX designer is about being able to build on top of what's already been done before, not just doing it yourself.
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Designers! What are the main web design concept types you started to notice this year? . • Clouds headers? .• AI Shapes?.• Big typography. What else? . I'm putting together a trends video and will mention everyone who helped shape it.
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Every UX designer should learn CSS. It not only helps you understand the project better, but also makes it easier to share your ideas.
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Spacing: 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 32 will get you nearly EVERYWHERE in UI design.
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Skeuomorphism icons were true works of art. Let's explore some interesting visual ideas that can all fit in a rounded square. A 🦆ing thread 🧵
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My goal was never to "destroy Figma". I appreciate Figma for how they opened design to developing countries and innovated new features that truly did push the industry forward. My goal with the critique was for them to get better. This is also why (unlike most so called
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All you need to know about Dark Mode. Master-thread 🧵👇. Like it? 🔁 Retweet it! ❤️
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The most important rule in UI design is definitely the rule of proximity. Let's explore it in a thread 🧵👇
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Building the future with a friend. Nexus $LTC wallet is coming! .Final tweaks!
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UI design is getting some PLASTICITY!.Let me show you some beautiful examples in a thread! . Tactile, fun to use interfaces from 12 awesome designers:
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If you're devastated by Figma becoming part of Adobe, here's a couple of alternatives worth trying. A thread. 👇
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If there's one thing you should remember about UX design, it's that less is always more.
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🚨🚨 Learn UI design for FREE. 🚨🚨. I've created a playlist of my 24 UI related videos that you can watch one by one and learn my techniques. Each day I will add one more tweet to this thread on a specific video and why it's worth watching. 👇.
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🚨 Giveaway Time! 🚨. Today's giveaway is for "UI Design Styles 2021" ($35 value) - which is going live TONIGHT! 🥳. Neumorphism, Glassmorphism, Dark Mode, Flat UI, Modern Minimal and more!. For a chance to win:. 💬 Like and comment on this tweet.🔄 Retweet for an extra entry
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Here are FOUR designers you should follow this week!. Look at their work, get inspired, network with them. Make friends. This is why we're here. To grow together 🧵👇
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pro tip: Add a skeuomorphic app to your portfolio, wood and everything. Recruiters will instantly assume you have 12 years of experience 😂.
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This is why writing good copy is a very important part of UX design. "Healthy living isn't available in your country"
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Something I worked on for a long time is releasing soon so:
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Mobile-first design results in ugly desktop landing pages 🤷♂️. #DesktopFirst then #mobile.
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Designer! .Show ONE WEB HERO design you did. If it's good I'll remember you and pick 4 designers to showcase on Friday. If they're not good I'll tell you why. GO! GO! GO! 🔥.
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🔖 Bookmark this! .This is the layout setting for Mobile that we use in about 80% of the projects. It uses a flexible column width and a rather large 32p margins on the sides. Now let's explain why it works in a short thread 🧵👇
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LinkedIn soon:.Here’s what Trump’s asassination attempt has taught me about b2b sales.
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