Design Resources

The Figma Tools page highlights the platform’s essential, built-in layout and creation features designed to speed up daily design workflows. Rather than relying on external plugins, it showcases core interface utilities like Auto Layout for responsive components, precise Constraints and Alignment tools for adaptive grids, and native AI-powered features that assist with rewriting copy, renaming layers, and generating placeholder content directly on the canvas. By mastering these integrated precision tools, designers can build scalable, consistent design systems and interactive prototypes much more efficiently.

The Figma Colors page is a dedicated educational and functional hub focused entirely on mastering color theory and systemization within product design. Rather than just being a feature checklist, it serves as a guide for building scalable, accessible design systems by leveraging Figma’s core color utilities. It dives into the mechanics of managing Color Styles and Variables to create seamless light and dark modes, explores various color profiles (sRGB vs. Display P3) and color models (Hex, HSB, RGB), and highlights the importance of contrast and WCAG accessibility standards. For designers, it acts as a blueprint for transforming loose color palettes into a structured, production-ready visual hierarchy.

Archive of Archives is a fascinating conceptual and visual exploration that acts as a curated digital sanctuary, capturing the ephemeral nature of human curation and historical preservation. More than just a repository, it serves as a meta-narrative on how we document, categorize, and interact with cultural artifacts, collective memories, and design legacies across time. Visually, it embraces a striking juxtaposition of stark, brutalist layouts alongside rich, historical fragments—an aesthetic that mirrors the raw authenticity and editorial depth of a cutting-edge creative agency. By treating the act of archiving as an evolving art form in itself, the project challenges designers to rethink how we structure information, turning a seemingly utilitarian database into an immersive, deeply poetic visual journey that honors the past while inspiring contemporary digital storytelling.

A full list of all 17 talks from An Event Apart DC 2019, available now.

The A-Z guide for operating your design system team

A visual history of your favorite technology

Beautiful Notification Icon set for Adobe Xd made by Burnt Toast Creative. Download them from Behance.

Paul Ibou is a well known Belgian graphic artist who has done a lot of logo design. I read a pleasant article in the newspaper about his impressive career.

Udacity has a big list of free courses that cover today's developer skills

Gulp is a tool that helps you out with several tasks when it comes to web development. It's often used to do front end tasks

Debbie Millman has worked with some of the world’s biggest brands, she's written six books and a frequent keynote speaker on design and branding.

A beautiful serif typeface designed by Riley Cran and inspired by the lettering work of Mortimer Leach

The color choosing workflow of designer Tobias Van Schneider.

The Smashing Magazine website has been redesigned. Totally worth to go take a look...

Great colors, great compositions, everything looks great on these MUTI designs.

Inspiring magazine for printmaking. Now that I started doing screenprints, definitely worth taking a look at this.

Alice Provensen's 100th B-day. Find some time & look at her amazing work.

Time-Saving, and Free Tools for Web Designers for 2017

Everyone knows: there is not the second chance to make the first impression. In the sphere of digital products, this eternal truth works in terms of high competition and incredible diversity. No doubt, some zones of the webpage or mobile screen are particularly important and effective in this aspect. Today we are going to discuss one of them in deeper focus: the header of the website.