Dezign Sense #3
This issue features Karlie Typeface, Screensizes, Writer and PPTfy Figma plugins and two curated UI lessons.
Welcome to the third issue of Dezign Sense. 🎉
By now you may have noticed that the issue has shifted to Friday night schedule. Here's the thinking — for most of us, it has a good intersection between being at work and taking time off for the week and that's where this dose of inspiration can help.
If need be, the weekend can be a great taste-tuning time reflecting on the visuals shared. This week's issue has some gems that have inspired me. I hope they will inspire you too for your work or otherwise.
Let's dive into them. 👀
Type of the Week
Every week, I share my love for typefaces, one at a time.
Today let us explore Karlie Script by DearType.
Although not a free typeface entirely, the regular font weight is free to use. If you're looking for a friendly, cursive, cute, professionally made handwritten font with not too much contrast like other script fonts, this is it! 😀
Tips of the Week
Small techniques compound and enhance your overall workflow in Design. Here are some tips that can help you with highlighting Product UI or selecting appropriate distribution graph.
🔥 Instead of displaying your product card as a flat rectangle on your landing page (BORING 🥱), a perspective layout and some lighting effects can help freshen it up.
— Erik D. Kennedy (@erikdkennedy) January 12, 2023
Simple, step-by-step breakdown 👇 pic.twitter.com/bCXz2VBbyr
How To R: Visualizing Distributions by Nick Martin https://t.co/ayAlTxCj3w #rstats #dataviz
— R Markdown (@rmarkdown) January 7, 2023
Tools of the Week
Some systems, apps, products, plugins add significant value than others. Here are some you can explore this week.
Screen Sizes by Trevor & Christopher
Here's a nifty little tool — Screen Sizes, that can be very handy to refer all the screen sizes and resolutions of devices.
Writer by Nathan Huesmann and Soren Iverson
If you wish to speed up content creation within Figma, here is a tool Writer, that can help you save time in fetching sample content pieces to make your UI or Graphic more appropriate.
PPTfy by Jean-Christophe NAOUR
Those of you working in Corporate who tried hard to shift your and your team's workflows to Figma have another good news. It's the PPTfy plugin that can take care of the need to use or send PPTs of presentations created in Figma. You have the best of both worlds. 👀
Teases of the Week
Here are some visual delights to tease you, from the world of graphics and interfaces that can inspire you in your projects.
Hope you've enjoyed it. If you have a suggestion or a thought, you can reply to this email or reach me on twitter — @arjunphlox.
See you all next week with another set of tasteful gems. 🫶🏼
