Airbnb VP of Design Alex Schleifer shares how design can become a more intentional, integrated discipline — and why it must be in order to better build products. 

A well-thought-out design team often accompanies enduring product design. Here are six pieces of advice to help you build and lead a design team from the sole designer to a larger design organization. 

Today we announce the 1.0 release of Adobe XD. Since the first beta release, we have been laser-focused on building a solution that enables fast-paced, iterative design.

We’re excited to announce Team Library 1.0, which empowers teams to create, use and maintain design systems. We introduced the beta version in February, and since then we’ve talked to hundreds of…

In this article we will teach how to use and master Gravit Designer’s Symbol and anchoring features. A Symbol is a component created in Designer, that can be re-used indefinitely.

Unless you've been under a rock 🤣  you probably have already seen the video. Very exciting, especially the ability to design and do better prototyping within InVision. In InVision's words "The world’s most powerful screen design tool. Rapid prototyping, animation, built-in design systems, and collaboration—all in one place." Coming Jan 2018.

You’re not alone — the app has barely been around. tbd is where your friends tell you what they really think, anonymously. But unlike similar apps of its kind, tbh is all about relentless positivity…

The 8-point grid is a powerful system for creating consistent and visually appealing user interfaces (UIs). This post is about how to establish vertical rhythm and set typography in an 8pt grid…

If you’re a designer who wants to collaborate well: learn to include others in your process early and often, share and gain insights into how each side works, and focus on removing friction from your…

Design System – the complete set of design standards, documentation, and principles along with the toolkit (UI patterns and code components) to achieve those standards.

Pattern Library – A subclass in the design system, this is the set of design patterns for use across a company.

Style guide – Another subclass in the design system, this static documentation describes the design system itself: how products should look and feel, use cases for UI patterns, correct typographic scales, etc.

This minimalist Sketch UI kit was designed and shared by Julio Castellano. Happy downloading!

Specialized in Interaction design, Mobile Apps [iOS and Android], Web Apps, UI/UX Design.

A great way to collaborate on design libraries and generate style guides.

Big news in the Figma house today — we’re excited to finally unveil Figma 2.0. It’s an expanded version of the product you love (or at least like a lot, right 😉?) with significant new features…

Share & inspect Photoshop and Sketch designs on Mac, Windows & Linux. Collaborate with your team, generate CSS, Swift & Android code, export specs and images.

Free collaboration app for designers and developers over Google Drive. Design collaboration / handoff for macOS. Integrates with Sketch and Photoshop. Design handoff, spec and redline for Sketch and Photoshop.

Collaboration app for UI designers and Frontend Developers. Design hand-off has never been easier. Generate styleguides and resources, automatically.

Design handoff, implementation, and collaboration for web and mobile product teams. Sympli works with Photoshop, Sketch, Android Studio, and Xcode.

Back in the early days, a Sketch designer typically had to export uncompressed PNG or JPG images from Sketch and then choose a means for compressing those files (if desired) using a 3rd party utility…

The Nielsen Norman Group is probably the most influential usability consultancy in the design industry. So, when they publish an article about their research findings titled “Flat UI Elements Attract…

Hello team!! Finally Sketch 47 is here and, alongside a number of smaller bug fixes and improvements, this latest release includes one of our biggest updates yet.

PRO TIP: when Sketch releases a new version it's VERY likely that some plugins will break or that there might be some bugs. It happens when you innovate fast as the team does.

I highly suggest making a backup of your Sketch app (and any file BEFORE opening it with a new version). Then:

1) Duplicate the Sketch app in the app folder (Command + D)
2) Rename the "copy" with the version number (for example "Sketch App 43.2") 
3) Launch Sketch app (not renamed) and check for updates if you are not prompted with an update, and install them

Enjoy both, or more versions of Sketch at once, use them to open files from others that have not or cannot upgrade yet and use the latest one to make sure everything is working in your workflow before making the jump!

Safe Sketching everyone!