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Prototype Visualization: How can I learn to render glass convincingly?
I do not think anyone draws without a reference, probably someone that was visually impared since born. We, the rest have visual references all the time. Some skilled people learn how to grab thoose ...
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Cutting knife practice drills/exercises?
Going to date myself here a bit.....
In college, we had to create mechanicals by hand... yeah... rubyliths/amberliths, press on type, overlays, etc. You are right that doing this went a long way to ...
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How can I determine the grain (or fiber) direction of a paper and what are its impact on the final design of a piece?
I somehow agree that this is not entirely a design problem, but a production one... BUT...
Designing is knowing some production process, and in my opinion, this is important to optimize costs, which ...
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How to prototype a fixed header that changes color on scroll using Figma?
Not possible with Figma natively at this moment but there's a workaround.
If you check the Prototype tab you'll see that on the Trigger section there's no scroll option. So you can't set a change to ...
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Prototype Visualization: How can I learn to render glass convincingly?
As with many questions of this nature, there are three requirements: practice, practice and more practice. That said, there are a couple of tips that I can share from my experience and struggles with ...
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How can I determine the grain (or fiber) direction of a paper and what are its impact on the final design of a piece?
You always want to go with the fiber, parallel, when going against it is perpendicular.
Grain direction is made at production where the fiber set perpendicular to rollers that create the sheet. In ...
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Cutting knife practice drills/exercises?
Papercraft of their choice from their favorite TV shows and games would really get people motivated.
You would then decide what the complexity should be and give them a sample image of what the ...
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How to add page scroll on Adobe Xd?
You can do that by choosing the artboard, then change the scrolling to Vertical, and adjust to view-port height to whatever fits you best.
I hope I understood your question right.
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Cutting knife practice drills/exercises?
This is an interesting question for someone of hybrid origins such as myself - when I first studied art and graphic design, Xacto skills were definitely part of the expectation, and there were no ...
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Figma's "After Delay" interaction is disabled when going from one frame to another
Select the frame instead, then try prototyping (you have only the object selected).
if you select the complete frame it's gonna enable it, and it's disabled when an object is selected.
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Why does Sketch prototyping sometimes scroll, but other times scale my artboards?
Found it here...
TLDR: You need to explicitly choose a preset. Thought they were only used to create the artboards. Didn't realize they're actually a property of the artboard.
To fix, select your ...
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Exporting a Sketch Prototype
Puzzle Publisher plugin creates clickable HTML.
https://github.com/ingrammicro/puzzle-publisher
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Exporting a Sketch Prototype
When you create a prototype in sketch you can upload it to Sketch Cloud, which means anyone with the link will be able to see & navigate your prototype. Check out sketch's documentation on ...
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What's the best way to resize an animated GIF to a specific ratio?
The options are many, however the very first option I selected from a Google search for "free GIF editor" returned a program called ezgif, an online resource with multiple features.
My test involved ...
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Update prototype links across all symbols in Adobe XD
In the current 1.0 version of Adobe XD, this does not appear to be possible. However, if you are in Prototype mode (not Design mode), you can copy and paste items (including groups of items), and the ...
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Cutting knife practice drills/exercises?
This is admittedly more a long comment than an answer.*
I am not going to deal with the exacto knife question as such. The university I work for actually has a CNC exacto knife for students that go ...
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Cutting knife practice drills/exercises?
My art classes only covered mat cutting in detail. We were encouraged to use a straight edge and x-acto for the countless paper trimming and mounting, but there was no instruction. "Go to the cutting ...
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Exporting a Sketch Prototype
I heard of the tool called Mirr.io. For more information I'll direct you to this page:
Mirr.io
You can preview your prototype in any browser, on any device - LIVE. It has once-click sharing and is ...
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How much space I should leave for browser taskbar?
The simple fact of the matter is that there are too many screen sizes, from phones to large desktop monitors and everything in between, and differences in user setup for this question to be exactly ...
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Figma Prototyping: create connections from multiple objects to one frame simultaneously?
Yes.
You can't use drag and drop for multiple elements, you need to select all the buttons and click on the options in the Prototype panel. Sorry for the short answer but it's a short question.
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Turn Background White Without Selecting Each Individual Area in Photoshop
You can whiten the light parts (and even darken the dark parts) with a Curves Adjustment Layer. Go to Layer> New Adjustment Layer> Curves. The curve will have a diagonal line from upper right to ...
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How to achieve breakpoints in Invision Studio or Figma?
I don't think it's possible natively with Invision, Sketch or Figma.
While these tools have responsive resizing of elements, the layout of the elements doesn't change.
The solution is to create an ...
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Sketch horizontal scrolling
You can do horizontal scrolling in the Protowire plugin this video explains how.
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Can you do animations within an artboard when using the Sketch Prototyping feature?
Timeline and AnimateMate both offer animations directly within a single artboard in the Sketch App: AnimateMate is free, but still under heavy development, so treat like a beta, and Timeline is $39/mo ...
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What are the pros and cons of Principle vs ProtoPie
I currently use Sketch, and have been using the basic interactivity tools there; I've just been looking at both of these apps in fact.
Looks like one obvious difference is that Principle is Mac OS ...
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Cutting knife practice drills/exercises?
Answer #2
I noticed joojaa's answer and some comments. I've considered that if you don't have a CNC machine and you're mostly dealing with card stock paper for prototyping you could persuade someone ...
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Sketch 49, unable to zoom/fit to width using Mirror?
Found the answer after shooting Sketch a tweet!
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Axure: Bulk-editing cases
There are only certain attributes that can be bulk edited, unfortunately this does not include interactions.
However the paste action for the widgets is very smart. If they are all identical then the ...
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Axure: How can I scale the preview to fit my screen?
This is a web browser issue, not an Axure issue. Axure has no method to scale HTML used in preview or generated when requested.
As the "Menu" (by which I presume you mean the Axure controls) is also ...
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