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OK, I hate long intros, so: this is a checklist of some of the most important UX tips for creating usable signup and login forms. It’s based on my experience looking at hundreds of beginning designer login flows, thanks to my courses Learn...

If you’re looking for free alternatives to Helvetica, here are 7 of the highest-quality look-alikes and similar fonts.

If you’re looking for free alternatives to Futura, here are 2 of the highest-quality look-alikes and similar fonts.

If you’re looking for free alternatives to DIN, here are 6 of the highest-quality look-alikes and similar fonts.

If you’re looking for free alternatives to Circular, here are 4 of the highest-quality look-alikes and similar fonts.

If you’re looking for free alternatives to Avenir, here are 5 of the highest-quality look-alikes and similar fonts.

If you’re looking for free alternatives to Apercu, here are 2 of the highest-quality look-alikes and similar fonts.

If you’re looking for free alternatives to Gotham, here are 4 of the highest-quality look-alikes and similar fonts.

This is not the most popular view among designers, but I’m totally in favor of using free fonts, especially as a beginning designer.

If you’re looking for free alternatives to Times New Roman, here are 7 of the highest-quality look-alikes and similar fonts.

If you’re looking for free alternatives to Proxima Nova, here are 4 of the highest-quality look-alikes and similar fonts.

If you google for how to pair fonts, you’re going to get a lot of awful results. A first-page result recommends pairings no experienced designer would touch with a 10-foot pole. Google Fonts hilariously recommends you pair literally...

Here are reviews of Learn UI Design and Learn UX Design that I know about. I’m limiting this list to more comprehensive reviews (>100 words) and not including anything by affiliates of the course. Please notify me if you’d like me to...

Architect Michael Sorkin recently died from coronavirus, and in a tribute to his beautiful piece 250 Things an Architect Should Know, I’ve compiled a list of 100 things a UX/UI designer should know.

In this article, we’re going to cover basically everything you need to know to design an iPhone app following standard iOS 13 conventions and style. Maybe you’ve never designed an iPhone app, and have no idea where to begin....

Whether you’re a freelance designer or you just have your own entrepreneurial side projects, face it: you’re going to be working with organizations that need logos. Maybe you’ll be the one designing the logo, and maybe not. Either way,...

If you’re designing both an iOS and an Android (Material Design) version of an app, this guide is your new best friend 😎. We’re going to cover the most relevant differences between iOS and Android for UX/UI designers. If you’ve created an...

This is my advice on improving the UX of your designs WITHOUT hours of user research sessions, paper prototyping playtime, or any other trendy UX buzzwords.

One of the most efficient ways to get better at design fast is through learning heuristics: that is, short rules of thumb that come up in a wide variety of situations.

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There’s a real chicken-and-egg problem with getting hired as a designer these days: