Maximize Creativity: Why Product Designers Should Ditch Coffee

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Nishit Karwa

pro

• Jun 22

Another Monday and a quick tip for fellow Product Designers:

Forget coffee. A few minutes of browsing beautiful card designs is usually enough to send me down a three-hour redesign spiral.

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Yevheniy Kladov

pro

• Jun 26

Hey Contra community, our case study, Deuce - Court Management SaaS, is live on Behance.

As always, please help our team choose the better cover for the case 🙏 What would you put into a cover and why? See you in comments 👇

Full case: Deuce - Court Management SaaS Full Product Design Liked our work? Follow us on Instagram - we're hiring Product Designers.

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Victor Adewole

pro

• Jun 26

Preview 1 for me

Dima Strizhak

pro

• Jun 26

Why overcomplicating your layout kills readability. Most content-heavy sites fail because they try to show everything at once. Sidebars, badges, related articles, and tiny fonts create cognitive overload. The user gets tired after two paragraphs and leaves.

Good design is about aggressive editing. You need to manage where the eye goes first.

In this layout, the hierarchy does all the work: • A massive headline sets the mood and context instantly • Generous white space prevents visual fatigue • The clean grid ensures the reader actually focuses on the text

We don't need complex decorations to make a web page look expensive. We just need perfect typography and discipline.

Are you building a product or content platform that feels too cluttered? Drop a link below, and I’ll tell you where your users are getting stuck.

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Harsh Upadhyay

max

• Jun 29

Love the color theme!

Marya Kutishcheva

• Jun 26

Hey Contra 👋

I'm a product designer available for freelance.

What I do: — UX/UI design — research, wireframes, interfaces that actually work — Product design — from concept to final screens — Web design — clean, intentional visuals that serve the product — Mobile app design — iOS & Android, from flows to polished UI

I work best with founders, creative businesses, and teams who care about getting the details right.

Open to new projects — feel free to reach out.

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