86 SKETCH SHORTCUTS THAT EVERY PRODUCT DESIGNER SHOULD BE USING invisionapp.com

A list of 86 Sketch shortcuts you can use to move around and edit Sketch layers. Also comes with Sketch shortcuts desktop wallpaper downloads.

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The Ultimate Guide to Understanding Hue, Tint, Tone and Shade color-wheel-artist.com

Learn about hues, tints, tones, and shades.

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Primary Colors, Secondary and Tertiary Explained color-wheel-artist.com

Learn about Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary colors.

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Seven best practices for inclusive product design medium.com

Pinterest shares their learnings and best practices they developed over the last year as they redesigned Pinterest to be more accessible for people who are blind and visually impaired.

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Color Wiki by Canva canva.com

A wiki deleveloped by Canva to help you learn everything a designer needs to know about colors along with color combinations.

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Choose the perfect colour palette for your website creativebloq.com

This is a well written article that gives you quick tips on choosing color and how it represents your website. They also go into about how you can apply color to your website so that it looks balanced. Good resource for the visual design!

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Font Pair fontpair.co

This site helps you to find the best font pairings.

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Colors klart.co

A collection of color palettes for visual design. This resource may be helpful for providing examples of the common types of color schemes.

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Psychology Principles Every UI/UX Designer Needs to Know uxplanet.org

This post talks about 5 principles that can help designers: Von Restorff efffect (or "isolation effect), Serial Position Effect, Cognitive Load (Intrinsic and Germane), Hicks Law, and the Law of Proximity. Knowing these (and other design and psychology principles) can help with design, and give others better reference points regarding design reasoning. I found it helpful, so I wanted to share.

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Accessibility for Visual Design uxbooth.com

In this article, they talk about the things you need to consider for your user when making decsions about your visual design. It covers common mistakes that are made when it comes to choosing colors and visual elements as well quick fixes for those mistakes.

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Color Safe - Accessible Web Color Combinations colorsafe.co

Color Safe is a tool to explore beautiful, accessible color palettes for your website based on Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

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Style Guide Deliverables bradfrost.com

I came across this article while researching style guide deliverables. Brad Frost does a great job explaining brand identity, design language, voice and tone, writing, patterns and codes as components of a style guide deliverable. This helped me learn and understand the differences between each of those concepts and what they look like.

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Developing a Brand Framework linkedin.com

I found this article helpful for understanding some of the ideas around brand frameworks, brand promise, brand personality, and brand attributes for use working on UX05 Visual Design Emerging Competency 5, Proficiency 1.

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The Anatomy of a Grid uxdesign.cc

This post does a good job breaking down the anatomy of grids and the different types like hierarchical, manuscript, and so on. I think it does a good job of being concise and informative.

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Typography Cheatsheet—A Comprehensive Guide to Smart Quotes, Dashes & Other Typographic Characters · Typewolf typewolf.com

"Everything you need to know about setting proper typography—smart quotes, apostrophes, em dashes, en dashes, accented characters and more." This cheatsheet has keyboard shortcuts for all sorts of symbols, special characters and punctuation marks.

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