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289: Design File Hygiene

Episode Summary

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.

Episode Notes

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 designdetailsfm@gmail.com

Industry Talk:

• A few simple rules:

1. Rename and structure your layers as you create them
2. If you find yourself duplicating an element frequently, make it a symbol
3. 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

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