5 Essential Design Principles Every Professional Should Know

5 Essential Design Principles Every Professional Should Know5 Essential Design Principles Every Professional Should Know

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Femi Farinde

• Mar 10

I've designed across digital, print, product, etc, and after years of experience, what I've learned is, beauty is just the icing in design. A good design works. It's functional, intuitive, timeless, and solves real problems for real people. I broke this all down into 5 key principles every designer (and non-designer) should know.

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Val Guerra

pro

• Mar 17

Modern brands can take many different forms. Colorful? B&W? Highly detailed? Minimal?

Choosing a direction is always the hardest part.

So I created a visual collection of the 12 most common design styles used by modern startups, with real examples for each one.

➡️ Check it out!

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Franco Vidal

• Mar 18

Most teams treats design as a visual choise, but it´s really a communication layer. It shapes how people interpret the product before they even use it.

Ivo Ivanov

max

• Mar 17

Before → After. 🔥A major UX overhaul is coming to EdgeHound (.com) I've been passionate about 📈investing in the stock market for many years and finally got a chance to work on a product that really resonates with that passion. Stay tuned... more updates coming soon 🤘

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Scott DS Young

pro

• Mar 18

Since still many colors, thinking this would work better in a dark mode. To me there is too much white and the data blends together

Daniel G Bright

max

• Mar 16

The hardest skill in client work isn't design. It's learning to trust the feeling in your chest that says "this isn't right" before your brain catches up and walk away.

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