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- 🤿 future of "handoff"
How do designers from today’s top teams collaborate with engineers?
After many interviews I'm starting to notice a trend…
The highest functioning product teams throw away a lot of code and it’s a good model for what the new “handoff” process will look like.
So this video highlights how eng collaboration works at teams like Figma, Vercel, Perplexity, Airbnb, and more 👇
🤝 WITH JITTER
You already know how big of a Jitter fan I am but their latest release is hands down the best one yet.
Now Jitter has an infinite canvas for animation design 🙌
Within 30 seconds of using it… I knew this was always the way it should be:
Iterating is 10x easier
Collaborating with team members makes way more sense
And you can scale content across formats using multiple artboards all in a single file
Jitter is crazy… like this product is so good now you gotta try it out 👇
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The default position of an exec is often to be skeptical while looking for ways to poke holes in your ideas.
Overcoming that objection is the key differentiator between junior designers and more senior ICs.
With that in mind… do you remember Ian Wharton, the storytelling coach that Metalab hired to train their team?
Well he just shared a breakdown to help you overcome these objections while presenting your ideas and it’s straight gold 👇
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Beyond the traditional portfolio
Every once in a while you come across a portfolio site that’s so good you don’t even need to read the case studies.
Yann-Edern Gillet’s personal website definitely hits that bar for me (and is a big reason he got hired at Linear).
He shared a few strategies to help others go “beyond the traditional portfolio” in a recent article:
Showcase a multifaceted identity
(like how he has /moodboard and /writing to provide a richer narrative about himselfMake your website a “living” space
(design ways to showcase experiments and your growth over time)Use different formats
(create multiple ways of interacting with your work not a single traditional portfolio layout)
I’m convinced designers can only benefit from staying away from the cookie cutter portfolio layouts you see everywhere nowadays.
And this article is a fantastic source of inspiration 👇
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Recreate Clerk’s dot pattern
One of my favorite interactions on the Clerk website is this dot pattern designed by the one-and-only James McDonald.
He just broke down exactly how to create it in Figma!
One takeaway is that I really need to start using the Select Random Layers plugin more 🤔
You’ll want to bookmark this one 👇
🧃 INSPIRATION JUICE
3 things I saved this week
1️⃣ Unique visual style
Don’t you feel like you could run your finger over these gradient circles?
James has quickly become one of my new favorite follows. 🤝
2️⃣ Laying UI on a table
It's so hard to nail this visual style where real life elements are laid on a table with deep shadows like this.
But if you can pull it off then it looks awesome and I think Atikh nailed it.
3️⃣ Patterned cards with negative space icons
I love everything about these cards:
The negative space icons
The metallic patterns and texture
The font size, spacing, and color contrast
The whole Invertase site is definitely worth a scroll too 👀
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