Weekly Shaarli
Lots of style guide examples and inspiration
Today you’ll learn how to use gradients for a website in Adobe XD through a very useful tutorial.
Always decide on a light source. This will help you decide which are the lighter and darker areas in the gradient.
This article is pointed towards beginners in Javascript or people who are just starting working with functional Javascript and never heard of map, filter and reduce. If you already have a lot of practice with these, you can just jump to the end of the article where I point you towards some other interesting pieces.
Little and Alex Weldon are wrong calculating how much the bounty is worth based on the starting stack.
Create and share beautiful images of your source code.
Start typing or drop a file into the text area to get started.
#1: How’s life?
#2: What are you worried about right now?
#3: What rumors are you hearing that you think I should know about?
#4: If you could be proud of one accomplishment between now and next year, what would it be?
#5: What are your biggest time wasters?
#6: Would you like more or less direction from me?
#7: Would you like more or less feedback on your work? If so, what additional feedback would you like?
#8: Are there any decisions you’re hung up on?
Whereas the main ideas in the book revolve around the fact that people will like you if you offer them attention (“Become genuinely interested in other people”, or “Make the other person feel important — and do it sincerely” are good examples of this approach), there are other instances where the author’s advice doesn’t feel as authentic. For example, the tip “Let the other person feel like the idea is his or hers”
Whatever is the direction digital artists choose for their professional realization, one of the crucial and hardest challenges is finding own creative style. Today we are discussing this theme with Tubik graphic designer Yaroslava Yatsuba, now experienced in both traditional and digital art. She is keen to share some useful tips and practices helping designers to find and keep their own style in business and theme flat illustrations for various purposes. Let’s consider what graphic designers could do so that not to sink in the variety of styles and catch their own golden fish fulfilling professional goals.
Here are 8 fantastic projects to train your coding muscles! The goal is to build each app with whatever technology stack you prefer. Keep it conflict free, use whatever you want!
“…your first draft is only for you. No one is ever going to see it, so you don’t have to worry about it. You’re not going to turn it in. You’re not going to show it to friends to evaluate — because it’s only for you.”
“Nobody creates flawless first drafts. And nobody creates better second drafts without the intervention of someone else. Nobody.”
One my prefered playgrounds is SVG. It is Scalable Vector Graphics, which in practice means that you can draw something in the browser using some tags, some stying and some code. How cool is that? Compared with a piece of paper and a pen you can go crazy and the result is generated instantly as you change the elements of your playground in your pen on CodePen.
Of all the things that have been helpful to me in personal growth and goal achievement, using my journal daily is at the foundation.
Writing in my journal every single day is the glue that holds everything else together.
Chris Gannon:
Personally I prefer and use the Asset Export panel. It's quicker, produces cleaner SVGs and is more flexible (drag and drop several assets and it will export them all separately; drag and alt-drop several assets and it will export them as one).