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Everyone has ideas for things they&rsquo;d like to launch, but struggle to get the ball rolling. Rationalise, design, build, launch and market your new product with these quick steps.

The 12 hour product launch

The design industry is careering towards a defining junction. Our job titles are all over the place, our career paths changing month by month and, to be honest, most people still don&rsquo;t know what we&hellip;

The blurring lines between product designer and product manager

It&rsquo;s not just that our jobs are now digital-first, it&rsquo;s the extra weight that startup culture (mainly from our friends in Silicon Valley) has dumped on our desks: over the odds perks, unlimited&hellip;

Derivative Design and Branding a Podcast

When asked, I&rsquo;d wager that most designers pine for a blank slate working environment &mdash; the opportunity to define their own processes, style-guides and grid systems. Why? As companies scale, legacy&hellip;

Designing from the pixel up

It&rsquo;s something that is central to the success of us landing our dream job, but we are mostly then left to our own devices when it comes to presenting projects internally to stakeholders who&hellip;

How to run a successful design meeting&#8202;&mdash;&#8202;4 tips

We&rsquo;re a sensitive bunch, us designers. Imposter syndrome, whether real or not, was I&rsquo;m sure invented by a designer. We hit lows hard and always look for reasons why we shouldn&rsquo;t celebrate highs&hellip;

How to stay sane as a designer

Here&rsquo;s how most of ours days start. We wake up swearing because we need another 2 hours sleep, turn off the alarm and check our phone. When we swipe down the notifications drawer, we see tonnes of&hellip;

Notification overload and coping with dark design patterns.

Over the course of Q4 2019, we decided to migrate our design tool suite over to Figma for myriad reasons. I&rsquo;ve documented the process and decided to write up a transparent trio of articles for you&hellip;

Migrating to Figma: the business case, the process, and the libraries

This week marks my official 10th year as a professional designer, from my humble beginnings as an intern at an ecommerce company through to my position as a designer advocate at Figma. Whether you&hellip;

Reflections on my 10th year as a designer

I&rsquo;ve already put in a lot of groundwork, but Figma is scaling massively and it&rsquo;d be great to have a buddy to help our community become more successful, faster. Designer Advocate may seem like the&hellip;

So you want to be a designer advocate?

I&rsquo;m going to be honest with you &mdash; I hate daily standups. More broadly, I&rsquo;m not that big a fan of routine, but I&rsquo;m working on it &#128591; With this in mind, imagine what my face looked like when switching&hellip;

Successful standups in a remote world

The &lsquo;creative process&rsquo; is one of those mythical concepts that people want to be a master of, yet there are no hard and fast rules for; particularly when it comes to idea generation as a creative. I&hellip;

The creative process&#8202;&mdash;&#8202;a systematic approach

I&rsquo;m fortunate to work at a place (Figma) that grants us &ldquo;recharge days&rdquo; every so often. Despite having a batch of vacation days to use up over the course of the year, working remotely for ~12 months&hellip;

When was the last time you stopped?

Having moved to Sydney (from London) in January, I forced myself to seek out design meetups in an attempt to make settling into a new city that little bit easier. One of the first events I found on&hellip;

Why designers need meetups

You probably opened the meeting with a summary of the project, to people sitting on their phone scrolling through Twitter, or slyly watching Slack messages pop up on their laptop. Your shiny pixels&hellip;

On the journey to better feedback &mdash; Tips and tricks to transform your demos

When was the last time your team &lsquo;huddled&rsquo; to discuss your current work in progress, or to collaborate on a decision? Weekly status meetings are great for more formal discussions, but it&rsquo;s often what&hellip;

The importance of collaboration

Remove small talk, become smarter. Click to read Milk, No Sugar, by Luis Ouriach, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

Milk, No Sugar | Luis Ouriach | Substack

Listen to this episode from Nodes of Design on Spotify. Luis Ouriach - who is an expert in communicating ideas through visual design, words, and debate. Luis is a lead product designer at upgrade pack, and he is a co-host of Noise podcast and manages a design publication - 8Px on medium. &nbsp;Luis and I had a great conversation on design systems- tokens, values, elements, and so on. Luis shared his practical experience in building and scaling design systems and how one can start from scratch. The whole talk is filled with so much value and insights for anyone who wants to understand design systems or build one for their teams.&nbsp; Reading list:&nbsp;   Ellio Dahl&rsquo;s Intro to the 8pt Grid system. A brilliant introduction to the atomic mindset, starting from our fundamental 8pt units &ndash; https://builttoadapt.io/intro-to-the-8-point-grid-system-d2573cde8632  IBM&rsquo;s Carbon design system, best holistic design system I&rsquo;ve seen. And the design kits are available to download! &ndash; https://www.carbondesignsystem.com/   UXPin&rsquo;s Adele is a compendium of design systems, and you can scroll through it all day https://adele.uxpin.com/   Luis part blog series on migrating our designs from Sketch to Figma. It&rsquo;s long, but it gives a great insight into how I tackled it all - https://link.medium.com/kPzVX3vDh5   Gridlover.net/try &ndash; brilliant typography hierarchy tool   Atomic Design by Brad Frost, forms the basis of our thinking in this discipline &ndash; https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/atomic-web-design/  If this episode helped you understand and learn something new, please share and be a part of the knowledge-sharing community #Spreadknowledge. This podcast aims to make design education accessible to all. Nodes of Design is a non-profit and self-sponsored initiative by Tejj.

Nodes of Design#10: Design Systems by Luis Ouriach

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8px Radio &bull; A podcast on Spotify for Creators

We both listen to a lot of podcasts, buy courses we never take, and get bored with circular conversations about how to craft the perfect component, pick the right border radius, and construct accessible colour palettes. 

So we decided to make our own show where we will try as little as possible to talk about the pixel-pushing side of design. 

This is a podcast (not) about design, by two designers.

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An audio series talking to creatives across the globe about what makes them tick. Whether it&rsquo;s side projects, travelling, hobbies or community, we&rsquo;re humanising your favourite designers

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In this article (the first part in a series of two), Luis Ouriach shares advice that helped him grow and become a better designer, and that he wishes he had when starting out in his career. These tips come from his experience as a user interface and product designer for close to ten years, and if you&rsquo;re starting just now, then read on!


Ten Tips For Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1) &mdash; Smashing Magazine

If you are a beginner at design and are willing to learn UI (user interface), UX (user experience) and product design, then this article is definitely for you! In [Part 1](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/01/ten-tips-aspiring-designer-beginners-part1/), Luis Ouriach shared advice he wished he had when starting out in his career. In this second and last part of this series, Luis continues sharing tips that helped him grow and become a better designer throughout the years.


Ten Tips For Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 2) &mdash; Smashing Magazine

Ask me anything with Luis from FigmaWho are YLD?YLD is one of London&rsquo;s fastest growing product design and software engineering consultancies building excitin...

AMA with Figma - Design Systems London #5 - December 2022

Thales own the original copyright of this recording.--This is the recording of a talk I gave for the annual Thales UX assembly.This year, they offered me the...

Design systems, the business case &ndash; Thales UX assembly 2021

Subscribe to my design newsletter &#128140; - https://newsletter.furquan.me/----------Hey friends, In this video we dive into the real basics of design systems. If ...