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🤿 vibration energy

🤿 vibration energy

+ 16 harsh truths for freelancers and agencies 👀

Ridd
November 30, 2024

It doesn’t matter how good your designs are if they never get built…

So this episode breaks down specific tactics you can use to become a better storyteller and get people excited to build your ideas 👇

The insights from this episode come from some of the best designers I know:

Michael Wandelmaier (former Head of Design at Metalab)
Gavin Nelson (designing the Linear mobile app)
Alex Cornell (design lead for Gen AI at Meta)
Kathy Zheng (head of design at Optimism)
Yuan Wang (head of design at Maven)
Gabe Valdivia (independent designer)
Noam Segal (senior research leader)
Ian Wharton (storytelling coach)
Femke (design lead at Gusto)

🤝 JITTER

My favorite animation tool Jitter just had a game-changer of a release

They just dropped their first set of community templates created by some of the best designers and studios I know.

And get this… they’re all free 🤯

You don’t even have to download anything because Jitter is like Figma for animation design.

Just head to their new community page and find an animation that you love…

You can remix it in a single click and make your own with their intuitive editor ✨

🔗 FEATURED RESOURCE

16 harsh truths for agencies and freelancers

Hunter Hammonds has sold $15,000,000+ in design projects in the last 4 years…

He recently shared some harsh truths on Twitter and I asked him to turn it into a little article so I could share it with you. If you’re pitching for design contracts then it’s a fun read 👇

🤝 FEATURED RESOURCE

Using AI to create on-brand illustrations

Remember when Erik Kennedy highlighted Lemonade in our web design show and tell?

Well I’ve been paying attention to them ever since and one of their designers Moty Weiss put together a great breakdown of how he uses AI to design brand-aligned illustrations.

This week’s episode with the brand experience designer for Perplexity is quickly becoming one of the top listens… so I figured this would make for a fun next step :)

🧃 INSPIRATION JUICE

3 designs I saved this week

1️⃣ Hand-drawn icons from Perplexity

While doing some research for the Perplexity brand episode I came across this Campus Strategists page.

The whole website is pretty slick but the part that really stood out to me was these animated icons above. That little vibration adds so much energy to the design and I’m already thinking of ways to incorporate the style for my new project :)

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2️⃣ Clever upgrade modal UI

Check out the clip at the top of the new Amie upgrade modal.

Pretty neat right? I’m constantly saving their designs and it’s a big reason why I interviewed their founder.

3️⃣ Lively dashboard dropdowns

I immediately saved this dashboard UI composition from Aarav. There are so many little visual details that are executed to perfection. For instance…

☑️ Color contrast of the subtext
☑️ Vertical rhythm to clearly indicate sections
☑️ Note how the dropdowns widen as they open (vs. aligning to the rest of the content). This is because things appear larger as they get closer. So he

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