Exploring design asset libraries for efficient creativity
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Exploring design asset libraries for efficient creativity

Let’s tackle a subject that is dear to me—design asset libraries. As a designer, I understand how exasperating the creative process is. You sit down, prepared to design, but the blank canvas is peering back at you like a daunting wall. This is when design asset libraries should be used. A design asset library is…

Integrate Design Tools into Your Workflow
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How to Integrate Design Tools into Your Workflow

Today, it seems like integrating design tools into our workflows is essential to succeed in the ever-evolving creative landscape. It does not matter if you are a graphic designer, web developer, or an artist since the tools do make a difference in how people execute their ideas. I can still recall the very first time…

Find and Use Design Templates Effectively
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How to Find and Use Design Templates Effectively

Picture this, it was a cold November afternoon and I had an art show to pull off. As I was finalizing the preparations, I began to realize how many details I had left off such as reaching out to artists, sending out invites and most importantly making a visually stunning presentation. But just when I…

Design Tools for Creating Infographics
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Best Design Tools for Creating Infographics

Infographics can be considered the best effective tool for telling a story however, due to the ag advancing world, it’s evident that some people are always in need of quick and fast content. During the last social media scroll, think about the last time you saw an article and a bold infographic, chances are it…

Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW
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Comparing Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW: Which is Better?

Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW are the two glaring names when it comes to the talk around graphic design and its essentials. Each software has a group that prefers using it and the arguments about which one stands out seems to get designers charged up. The memory of my first interactions with any design tools is…

Design Language System (DLS)
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The Design Language System (DLS): Building Consistency in Design

Have you ever experienced a sense of recognition instantly after opening an app or a website? That’s how effective a Design Language System (DLS) is. A design language system, in its simplest terms, is a set of rules which allows developers and designers to ensure that they give users the same experience across different devices….

Free Design Tools for Creative Professionals
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The Best Free Design Tools for Creative Professionals

As an aspiring design enthusiast, I encountered several hiccups owing to my part time jobs at college alongside an unbounded need for creativity. All I had back then was passion and the will to create. The biggest hurdle in my path was looking for zero-cost design software, only to rely on the internet for hours…

Figma for Collaborative Design Projects
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How to Use Figma for Collaborative Design Projects

Let us start exploring Figma, one of those tools to reckon with and is changing the collaborative design landscape and Figma sorts out many of issues for those who have for example had to manage few design files, had to deal with the iteration of reviews or have run into the problem of alignment of…