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Francesco Bertocci

Sr. Product/UX/UI Designer

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Francesco Bertocci

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ProtoPie: Prototype mobile interactions as easily as Pie

#Prototyping #Tools #Mobile #Advanced

Piece hi-fi interactions together, build sensor-aided prototypes and share your amazing creations in a matter of minutes.









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Beginex: Boost your hirability and get a UX job

#UX #Course #Training #PartTime

Do you have basic UX skills you acquired recently, but lack real experience,which prevents you from getting job? Our in-person part-time mentored program is designed exactly for people like you.









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Oxygen UIKIt

#Sketch #DesignSystems #UIKits #UXPowerTools

The ultimate design system boilerplate for creating beautiful web applications in the most efficient and scalable way possible.
Every symbol is built with text styles and layer styles so you can efficiently update and sync changes across your file.









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Protowire: Prototyping in Sketch (30% off!)

#Sketch #Prototyping #Tools #Plugin #Deals

No coding or exporting to other applications:
Watch the Video

Rather than something you do at the end, Protowire aims to integrate interaction and animation into the design process without having to change your designs to suit the software.

  • Integrated into Sketch
    No need to export to a separate prototyping application - review the prototype instantly in Sketch or on a device.

  • UI Animations
    Just by moving layers around you can have overlays appear and disappear.

  • Screen Transitions
    Quickly create the flow of your app by linking up artboards from layers or hotspots.

  • Responsive Design
    Use Sketch’s resizing constraints and responsive artboard groups to make prototypes that work on any screen size.

To celebrate the launch there is 30% off the pro version by using coupon code 9146C9AF. 

Offer expires on Monday 26th February at 4pm Pacific Time.









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SQUID UI Flow Template: Design Beautiful User Flows faster.

#Sketch #UIKits #UX #UserFlows

Create elegant User Flows, Diagrams and Sitemaps in Sketch. SQUID is the fully customizable template with over 50 UI Templates for Mobile and Web. Connect UIs









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Forma Library v1.0 by Amr Kamal

#Sketch #UIKits #Library #Free

Long time since I released anything, Excited to release a new UI Kit! Forma Library is based on Sketch nested symbols to power designers with starter kit to build easy and quick configurable Web fo...









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A Practical Guide to SVGs on the web

#SVG #Animation #Interaction #CSS #JS #HTML

This guide aims to give a practical overview of how you can use SVGs on your websites — with some tips and tricks along the way to get the most out of them.









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Implement Dark Mode in iOS 11 by Design+Code

#iOS #Dev #UI #Frameworks #Swift

An interactive book on how to design and code an iOS 11 app. Learn to use Xcode 9, Sketch and Swift 4, from conception to the App Store. For beginners and designers.









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How to Manage Your Career - Business Guides - The New York Times

#CareerAdvice

You need to pay attention to your career. Here's how. 









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Design Tools Survey

#UX #UIDesign #Tools #2017

Wonder which tools everyone else is using? In this survey, 2,000 designers give their opinion on the most popular design tools of 2017.









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Hello 2018!

#Sketch #Prototyping #Workshop #NYC

Hello everyone and happy new year!

I am very excited for what the new year will bring us! So much happened in 2017 in the UX/UI Design and Prototyping space!

Here are some of the things you should check out in case you missed them. A big one for me was the evolution of symbols in Sketch and design systems as well as collaboration among team members, and easier handoffs and if you work with React, lots of exciting things there too.

The last 6 months of 2017 I was pretty busy with a job out of town so I could not organize as many events but I am planning to start the year strong and we'll have events in NYC around:
– "Why it's good to prototype early and often" an event on the (crowded) prototyping space and. Good if you are new to the group/space. This an updated presentation I based on
Timeline by Anima App (just released!)
Fuse Tool's improved UI
Framer Studio
InVision Studio
Figma 2.0

Other big announcement was AdobeXD for Windows

Tons of products now have "Studio" in their name as they all rush to become the all-in-one tool to designers. 🚀

Sketch Workshops in January:
Basic if you are starting now
Advanced if you want to learn more advanced workflows or techniques.

Depending on availability, I organize custom workshop for teams. 

What would you like to learn or improve in 2018?

💌 Shoot me an email
and let me know! 😀

Ciao,
Francesco 









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Sketch Workshops in NYC

#Sketch #Workshop #NYC #Advanced

Hello everyone and happy new year!

I am very excited for what the new year will bring us! So much happened in 2017 in the UX/UI Design and Prototyping space!

A big one for me was the evolution of symbols in Sketch and design systems as well as collaboration among team members (❤️ Abstract!), and easier handoffs and if you work with React, lots of exciting things there too.

I'll be running a few Sketch Workshops in January:
Basic if you are starting now
Advanced if you want to learn more advanced workflows or techniques.

Depending on availability, I organize custom workshop for teams. 

What would you like to learn or improve in 2018?

💌 Shoot me an email
and let me know! 😀

Ciao,
Francesco 









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Sketch Workshops for Teams

#Sketch #Workshop #NYC #Advanced

Custom Sketch Training for Teams
This Sketch app workshop is customizable for any team or group either new to Sketch or that is ready to master it and take collaboration workflows to the next level and be more productive.

Agenda example (approximately 5-6hrs over 1 or 2 days):
– Sketch’s UI: What's obvious and what's a little more hidden, navigating folder structures and artboards
– Styles: Text and Shapes (import/export to share with others)
– Symbols Overview: How to create them and when to use them.
– Symbols: Resizing and overriding.
– Manage and leverage plugins for an efficient workflow (Runner, Rename it, Anima Autolayout and more)
– Anima's AutoLayout: building responsive layouts, grids, tables and more.
– Naming conventions and exporting Zeplin (including exporting to SVG)
– Libraries: Using Symbols from shared libraries and UI kits.– Advanced Symbols: How to create nested symbols for building Design Pattern Libraries (DPL) using Atomic Design principles
– Practical tips for DPLs (lessons learned)
– Managing projects and symbol libraries with Abstract

Please note:
– Attendees should bring their laptop to follow along and pre-install Sketch 48 or higher.
– Each workshop is tailored to needs and pace of each group.
– Payment is due at the time of booking. You can reschedule anytime up to a week prior the event.

Costs:
Cost varies based on number of attendees, location, travel time and overall team commitment.

Want to request availability or have questions?









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Framer: Interactive Screen Design Tool

#Prototyping #UIDesign #Tools #Framer

Framer is the best screen design and interactive prototyping tool. Create your designs and then easily turn your work into high-fidelity prototypes. Used by Facebook, Google, and more.









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Design Systems Market by UXPowerTools

#DesignSystems #UXPowerTools #Productivity

Premium UX design systems for ux designers using Sketch for UI and UX projects by UXPowerTools









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Workshop: Mastering Sketch

#Sketch #Workshop #NYC #Advanced

This workshop is for for anyone that has already working experience with Sketch and would like to improve or master it.

You'll be learn about resizable Symbols, Plugins, Pattern Libraries and more.

Agenda (3hrs):
– Sketch’s UI: Shortcuts and plugins for navigating folder structures and organizing layers and artboards.
– Styles: Text and Shapes (import/export to share with others)
– Advanced Symbols: How to create nested symbols for creating Design Pattern Libraries (DPL) using Atomic Design principles
– Practical tips for DPLs (lessons learned)
– Managing projects and symbol libraries with Abstract or Kactus
– Naming conventions and exporting (including exporting to SVG)
– Plugins: Manage and leverage plugins for an efficient workflow (Runner, Rename it, Anima Autolayout, Launchpad and more)
– Anima's AutoLayout: building responsive layouts, grids, tables and more.

Time and Date:
– 5:00pm to 8:00pm
– Thursday January 18, 2018

Location:
Manhattan, NY. The exact location to be announced 3-4 days prior to the workshop.

Please note:
– Bring your laptop to follow along and pre-install Sketch 48 or higher (Free trial).
– Each workshop is tailored to needs and pace of the group.
– We require at minimum of 5 attendees, so spread the word! Max 10 students per event.
– Refunds: You can request a refund or save a spot for the following scheduled date. You can cancel anytime up to 48 our prior the event. 

Questions?









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The 10 Framer Design Features You May Have Missed – Framer

#Framer #Tips #Prototying #UIDesign

It’s been a year of fast-paced releases over at Framer HQ. From Gradients to Effects and Export, we capped off 2017 with the launch of Frames, Shapes and Vectors, to present a full-featured screen…









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Pendo: Understand and Guide Your Users

Pendo helps product teams understand and guide users to create product experiences that customers love.









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Bootsketch The Perfect Boostrap Companion Sketch File (10% off)

#UIkits #DesignSystems #Productivity #Bootstrap #Deals

Bootstrap components for Sketch so you can focus on shipping products instead of renaming layer groups









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My Lightbulb Moment with Modular Design

#UIDesign #DesignStystems #Grids

  1. We grouped each chunk of a Yammer thread the same way our developers were grouping them in the code. To help out our eyes, we assigned each one its own color. At this point we also started referring to the chunks as modules, because we fancy.
  2. We stopped defining margins between modules. Instead, all the spacing in the app would come from padding within the modules — specifically, top padding. Bottom padding would have worked, too; just not both. The key is to choose one of the two and stick with it. This kept things simpler when we did need to define top and bottom margins in some special cases.
  3. We threw all of the individual modules into one super long artboard. It looks pretty weird, because this is not a conversation that would ever actually exist in Yammer. It’s okay, though. All we need it for is checking alignment on our grid and making sure every type of element is accounted for.
  4. When everything was laid out vertically, we still had three specific combinations that were throwing things off. This was okay with us — three was much easier to deal with than hundreds. Our engineers went to work defining special “if…” statements for each of them.









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Interplay: Design with code

#UIDesign #DesignStystems #React #Prototyping

Design and prototype using your design system components, then share real high fidelity prototypes









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How I (re)built the Medium clap effect — and what I got out of the experiment.

I don’t remember the surrounding circumstances, but the sun was blazing hot and I was on the results page of a Google search. Pablo Picasso was an artist considered one of the most influential and…









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Font Awesome 5 Icon Sketch Libraries

#Sketch #UIDesign #Productivity #Free #Icons

Font Awesome 5 Icon Sketch Libraries. 899 Free Vector Icons - Free Sketch Libraries - Changeable Colors Quickly Override the icons and colors.









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Francesco Bertocci

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Webflow: Responsive web design tool, CMS, and hosting platform

#CMS #Webdesign #Responsive

Build responsive websites in your browser, then host with us or export your code to host wherever. Discover the professional website builder made for designers.









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Francesco Bertocci

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SourceTree: Free Git GUI for Mac and Windows

#VersionControl #Git #Collaboration #Dev

A Git GUI that offers a visual representation of your repositories. Sourcetree is a free Git client for Windows and Mac.












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