Daily Shaarli
It all started back in 2019 before I was working at Skyscanner. I remember sitting in a cafe in Budapest reading the latest conversations online about the new brand update.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/vitalyfriedman_ux-design-activity-7242792350903582723-vntQ
✅ Set your base colors: primary, secondary and UI states.
✅ Define core color pairings and extended pairings.
✅ Choose product-specific colors, gradients, patterns.
✅ 4 color groups: neutral, white text, black text, yellow/orange.
🚫 Avoid poetic names: they are difficult to remember and refer to.
✅ Mix black and grey with primary color for a better design fit.
✅ Choose a night color that is slightly lighter than black.
✅ Your colors will need to appear on different backgrounds.
✅ Create color sets with transparency for such cases.
✅ Create tints based on the color contrast against black.
✅ Create shades based on the color contrast against white.
✅ Test for color contrast, colorweakness, colorblindness early.
✅ Double-check the dark yellow problem in your palette.
A free color mixer, blender, info and modifier tool. Mix multiple colors, get links for design inspiration and stock images based on a color, view various color combinations and modify colors in an intuitive.
Perhaps more than any other person in history, Leonardo da Vinci showed the kind of magic that can happen in the overlap between art and science, where much of web development lives. His methods and outlooks are just as applicable to the web today as they were in Renaissance Italy.
- Document Your Thoughts, Ideas, And Work
- Obsess Over Geometry
- Think Right-To-Left
- Find Good Patrons (Or Failing That, Good Employers)
- Iterate, Iterate, Iterate
- Feed Your Inner Polymath