to celebrate 2025, I'm dropping a bunch of presents 🎁 this week for the design community.
1st up: my guide to product design is officially live and free for everyone! it includes 24 chapters of my thoughts & advice for new designers.
📓 read it now: courses.designisaparty.com/course/cours...
thank you @joshwcomeau.com 🎉
Another great Black Friday deal from @lalizlabeth.bsky.social!
I know lots of devs are interested in learning visual design, and I can’t think of a better person than Elizabeth to teach it. 😄
www.artofvisualdesign.com
👀 guess the dupe: channel your inner miranda priestly and try to identify designer dupe. yes, i did manually find all these dupes myself!
made this in figma make over the weekend: harp-care-29087468.figma.site
some figma grid experiments from my students today~
trying to make a pink editor theme and it's a lot harder than i realized 😭
i love this synth created by my student dennis for prototyping with cursor~
a guide to navigating the saturated design advice internet for aspiring designers~
i've been working solo for 2 years now and here are some of the tips i have for managing my very unstructured work days:
✨ explored the art of collage with some of my art of visual design students today! everyone had a blast using the figma draw radial feature for the first time too~
the new material 3 expressive design principles feel like a breath of fresh air! i especially love their new take on using a variety of shapes within interfaces.
less consistency, more expressiveness ✨.
my favorite thing about building my own courses is including way too many references to the devil wears prada 😇
4/ "uglier"
some context: i'm creating some exercises for my students to practice updating visual designs to look better! i probably won't use something this drastic, but it was fun to explore what agent thinks is ugly.
3/ "uglier"
2/ "can you make it more visually ugly?"
1/ the starting point
told cursor to make something "look ugly" and tbh it did a pretty good job. pls watch til i press "spin everything."
a little peek at how i got here in the thread:
👀 a tip for new product designers: one of the best ways to improve your product thinking skills is to imagine the conversations behind product launches.
let's take @figma sites for example. these are a series of questions, discussions, and debates I know the product team had~
my amtrak activity last weekend: organizing classical saxophone repertoire in a notion database 🤭
does anyone else take photos of placards at art museums and then never look at them ever again? 🫣 i'm thinking about making something that helps me look back at the little placards i found interesting.
i always feel the need to throw in "swiss" mode to prove that i can follow the rules too 😇
you can play with it here: www.designisaparty.com/portfolio
recently, i made a mini website for an interview ✨. with cursor, it only took a few hours to make! i had way too much fun exploring chaotic mode~
prototyping with cursor is actually all powered by notion! i can visualize where all the students are and update course material all in one place 🥰
i love being able to customize the course experience myself without being constrained to specific tools.
loving @jitachi.bsky.social's fun little "add dog" feature for their prototyping with cursor project 🐶
omg i love this! the cursors page is so good
rip marquee
omg yessss
here's the link in case you want to look: www.neopets.com/help/html1.p...
thinking about how we all used to learn html and css with this guide 🥺
maybe some online learning tools are too complicated now~
