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Saima Shakeel

• 1d

“Beginner Mistakes I Made (So You Don’t)” 🚨

I used to copy designs from Dribbble and Pinterest.

And yes… they looked amazing.

But here’s the truth: 👉 I wasn’t learning anything.

Mistakes I made: ❌ Copying layouts blindly ❌ No understanding of spacing or hierarchy ❌ No idea why the design worked

What I learned: ✔ Break designs down ✔ Ask “why” behind every element ✔ Learn principles, not just visuals

Now instead of copying, I analyze.

That’s when real growth started.

💬 Do you learn by copying or analyzing?

#UIUX #DesignLearning #Figma #UXDesign #BeginnerDesigner #GrowthMindset

Computational Fine Art Figma

Nirmit Rana

pro

• Apr 25

Starting exploring with Claude design but ran out of credits pretty soon. Completed the design in Figma. The perks of knowing what you do in and out! Did it turn out well? Or I should let Claude finish the incomplete task when credits are reloaded in 2 days?

creativeaiflow claudedesign Figma

Istiak Ahmed Khan

• Apr 25

great job 👌

Sam Stoof

pro

• Apr 25

Blending surrealism with Midjourney v8.1

Midjourney Creative Design Creative Direction Brand Design Figma Paper

Subrata Roy

pro

• Apr 25

Nice.

Sam Comstock

pro

• Apr 24

Recently I’ve started prototyping my designs in Figma more than I have in the past.

I tended to avoid prototyping in the past due to it being time consuming and honestly most of the projects I was working on were simple enough to not require this amount of detail.

But as the projects I work on have become more complex I’ve found that this extra attention to detail really helps align with stakeholders and sell them on a design before starting development.

With a prototyped design clients are able to interact and see how the website will function, not just how it will look. This helps reduce uncertainty in the final deliverable and ultimately helps speed up Webflow development.

In the past describing all the hover interactions and click interactions for something even as simple as the slider below would require both time for me to explain and some imagination on the client’s part.

While imagination is great, it’s not the best way to align on fine details.

Anyways, long story short, new policy is show don’t tell.

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