The Layout #25
A layout of design highlights and thoughts
Welcome to The Layout #25. The substack about design that makes life a little easier with fun insights and key resources for you to level up. Now, let’s get on with it.
Does Your Product Sing?
When making products or apps apart from using standard design guidelines and taking user feedback into consideration, there has to be an ear for whether your app flow has a good melody. It sounds weird(it is) but hear me out now. Good melodies engage us and put us in a state that makes us oblivious to the world around us and makes us focused on tasks that we want to do. So using the same approach for creating products or designs, could be the way the user flow is arranged or the tiny little animations that attract the user and keep it in tune. This creates a melody that keeps users in flow while doing the tasks they want to do and creates an imprint in them to come back for more. Any comments or thoughts on this will be lovely.
The Hot Zone
Hot zones are what, you may ask. Hot zones are those areas in life that you run away from. The zones in life, work, etc. that you run away from because there is a lot of scrutiny, and heat in those places. Hot zones could be being able to discuss something uncomfortable but necessary to people close and near to you, it could also mean communicating an idea to certain stakeholders which could lead to ridicule or success, it could also mean making that move that could change your life forever, etc. Hot zones are just places that need bravery, courage, tenacity, and being unafraid of failure. Hot zones can refine you into something stronger or they can melt you into something weaker. A key mental reframe when approaching hot zones in life is to look at them as refinement chambers which helps a lot
Resource Break
Hierarchy: A quick primer on typography hierarchy Click here to explore
Website Redesign Gone Bad: Website redesign that didn’t go well and lessons that can be learned. Read it here.
Font Gauntlet: This is the ultimate tool for typography pros. Check it out
Prism Palette: A unique way to generate colour palettes. Check it out.
Accessible Color Palette: Designing an accessible colour palette from scratch Check it out.
Website Of The Week.
https://www.14islands.com/: A beautiful website with slick animations and liquid goodness. check it out
Kick the day with some salsa
Warning: muscles might move unexpectedly
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