March 27, 2019

289: Design File Hygiene

51 minutes

This week, Marshall offers a few simple tips for tidying up your source files, and we answer a listener question about when to move on from a company. In News, we shout out a new resource from the maker of Laws of UX. And as always, we share a couple cool things like a browser for neoworkers and an article about the Omnibox.

Follow-up:

Last week, Marshall recommended the Philips Sonicare DiamondClean 9500 Electric Toothbrush

Brian doesn't think it's worth the money, unless you're into Mercedes-Benz, apparently

News:

Humane by Design is "a resource that provides guidance for designing ethically humane digital products through patterns focused on user well-being"

It's made by Jon Yablonski, who you might remember as the maker of Laws of UX referenced in 271: Principles of Design

Listener Question:

Anonymous has been at a startup for years and doesn't know where it's going. They ask, "Should I stay and fight the good fight? Or should I go to a bigger company and make more money?"

Loss Aversion and the Sunk Cost Fallacy on Wikipedia

Kristy Tillman is the Head of Global Experience Design at Slack

Do you have a question you'd like to hear us answer on the show? Email us at [email protected]

Industry Talk:

A few simple rules:

Rename and structure your layers as you create them

If you find yourself duplicating an element frequently, make it a symbol

Use "Bounds" layers to define a group's area, then snap groups together like Lego

Sketch Plugins:

Layer Tools

Automate

Artboard Manager

Symbol Organizer

Runner

Here the Sketch Cloud source file for Marshall's unsolicited redesign of the New York Times Crossword app on iOS

Importing the file into Figma resulted in some unexpected insanity, but hopefully you can see through the mistranslations and grok the structure. Sorry :(

One Cool Thing:

Brian shared NOVA, a web browser "designed for the way we interact with the web today, made for the neoworkers" (whatever those are)

Moom is a simple Mac utility that "makes window management as easy as clicking a mouse button"

Nova's app icon isn't nearly as bold as its marketing page

Marshall shared Unboxing Chrome, a Medium article by Hannah Lee about the monumental task of redesigning Chrome's Omnibox

Design Details on the Web:

We are @designdetailsfm

Brian is @brian_lovin

Marshall is @marshallbock

@Sarahberus and @Luperdev make us sound smarter than we are

Email us at [email protected]

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