Some of the best tips and tricks that I have learned over a decade of experience in the design industry.
Overview
As designers we are constantly presented with new information, new ideas, new methodologies, and new paradigms of user engagement.
While this is exciting, it can be exhausting trying to keep track of everything you need to know in order to design a successful product for your users.
Today I’m sharing with you some of the best pro-tips that I have compiled over the last decade of my experience in the wild world that is the design industry.
Pro-tip #1: Always work from general to specific
You wouldn't worry about checking the time if you were on board the sinking Titanic. You wouldn’t worry about filling up your gas tank if you didn’t own a car. So why would you work on specific parts of an application or design fragments that have little to no real context?
This is a huge problem that I see these days where we get excited as designers to test out an idea, which then quickly morphs into an entire project that is created without any context whatsoever.
The problem is that good design doesn’t live in our heads, it lives in our users’ heads, an its up to us to figure out…
