There are many ways to document your designs and I think it depends how your company works and what the process between different areas (UX, UI, Development etc) looks like. Overall advice: communicate with engineers how they would like to see your deliverables.

A few principles that pop up in my mind

• Have one central place that all areas can easily reach and understand
• Start working with consistent and overall Components and Layouts. Name and reuse these (to avoid more work for engineers and make better designs)
• Specify the basic components early on (example: button is #ccc, 100px width etc)
• Make clear Style Guides and Specifications (overall colours, typography etc.)
• Make prototypes to show flows and motion behaviour (add quick videos/gifs of layouts/components to explain screen-to-screen and detailed behaviour)

Tools

• A wiki area with pages for each layout and component (changes? update page with new screens)
• Style Guides (example: Frontify https://frontify.com/styleguide)
• Specifications (example: Specctr https://www.specctr.com)
• Prototypes (Ideally Sketch to Marvel, Invision or for quick stuff Keynote)

There is so much more to say about this, but this is what I could think of now. Good luck!

I think this shows us (again) that we need to find balance.

You could go with the extremes of - having no phone at all or - trying to incorporate technology into everything (example: calling your buddies during a silent walk in the woods).

It's not the one or the other. Try to find ways to combine the two in a way it serves you instead of controlling your life.

At least, that's what I aim to do.

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Learning design is doing design. Try and error. Make apps and websites and ask others the things you don't know. Good luck!

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Hmm, although it's a nice find I think it's too small of a change to really make an impact. It's very subtle and that makes it hard to notice.

Looks nice. There are many Dribbble apps out there, but I'll give it a try!

I think the older The Sims have one of the best UI of games out there. Very technical stuff translated into understandable and intuitive design.

Think about:

• Helpful grids
• Feed forward and feed back (for example the moving arrows)
• Different modes (building, buying etc.)
• Mouse behaviours (click, hold)

Hi Bilal,

I can only speak as a self-taught designer who hasn't had an education in Design (Theology/Philosophy instead).

For me it wasn't necessary at all to have a Design education. I had a successful small business for 5 years and now I am part of the great design team at Resoluut in Amsterdam. It does help to have a good education (for thinking processes, general knowledge etc.), but I wouldn't call it a must.

Loving design, having a natural flair for it is a great start! I would like to add: Being someone who lives to learn + work, work and work.

Go do it.

(Btw. I couldn't open your website, got a blank page)

This is a great example of using the power of design to 'make a dent in the universe'.

It's a redesign. But not one that really dives deep into the needs of the online reader. It looks like a psychical news paper pasted directly on the screen.

It misses necessary components to make this a news site of today: readability options, usage of space of the screen, responsiveness etc.