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How do designers choose shapes in a design?
Actually there may be a great deal of thought put into such usage, well beyond personal preference or some client directive.
Style
If you know you want a more friendly, loose "feel" then ...
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How to indicate dark mode / light mode options on a user interface?
You could simply be straight forward with it....
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Why large companies never use flat design?
Because they are not followers of trends. They are trend setters.
Whole thing about Apple is "think different". You got 20 e-mails with "see what's IN in design in 201X" and it's something that Big ...
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Presentation - Brand Identity
I, personally, always brand presentations with the client branding. That way the client gets an overall sense of the proposed design.
In fact, my company branding is reduced to monotone and minimal ...
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What is the name of this UI Element?
This is called a SlidingUpPanel - given that one has this sort of interaction behavior with the element in mind:
https://pub.dev/packages/sliding_up_panel
Searching for SlidingUpPanel as UI element ...
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How do native speakers of a right-to-left-language read an image?
Summary: They usually read it from right to left. Be careful on flipping. Consider creating a localized image.
According to a Cognitive Science study [1], the reading order of an image depends on the ...
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Presentation - Brand Identity
In my experience it can be quite confusing for the customer if a presentation uses the design company's own branding. There might be a clash of styles and it can seem little smug and out of place to ...
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How do designers choose shapes in a design?
This is probably going to get hammered shut but in brief; the basic shapes, circles, squares and rectangles are invaluable as the fundamental elements of design.
Shapes and curves can provide feeling ...
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Why large companies never use flat design?
Not sure what qualifies as a 'large company' and exactly what you expect to see in a 'flat design', but some of the latest Android interfaces do look pretty flat to me. Also, Facebook's app interface ...
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How to indicate dark mode / light mode options on a user interface?
You don't really need an icon for this.
I would just use a toggle switch: place it in a distinct, fixed position in the design, then customize. You can play with the fills and strokes, or add wording ...
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How do designers choose shapes in a design?
This is very opinion based but:
many times these 'shapes' are derived from the actual logo and/or are part of a branding system. eg. Vodafone's rhombus system
other times they could be just trending ...
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How can I avoid icons with double meanings?
A rule of thumb with icons is to keep it as simple as possible.
It's important that users get the idea by the first look, not by the second and third until the 'AHA' moment occurs. In general, you ...
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How do I differentiate between vegan/vegetarian, wheat/gluten or dairy/lactose icons?
As for Wheat / Gluten labels unless you specifically want to convey that the product contains these, you should cross them out to signify wheat-free or gluten-free products. Not sure what your full ...
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How to indicate dark mode / light mode options on a user interface?
Dark mode and light mode is not something that you'll switch every few minutes or every hour or even ever. Most people select one preferred mode and forget about it and some could switch regularly ...
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What can good artists do to become good designers (web & app)?
"Committee" clients are always a nightmare. I avoid them as much as financially possible.
It's not you.. it's the fact that there are multiple people with multiple visions and multiple opinions all ...
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How can I ensure that my design works for colorblind people?
You can use some simulators.
https://www.google.com/search?q=color+blind+simulator
Make a snapshot of your website and upload it for example on this page: http://www.color-blindness.com/coblis-color-...
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Design critique on my apps menu
Your design looks nice an clean which is an excellent start.
However, you don't seem to have a cohesive grid structure and the horizontal menu doesn't work. You don't have a defined center or equal ...
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Save and Close Icon
Well I'm sure this is not as 'creative' as your management probably expects you to go into Einstein-mode and invent what nobody else did, but.. moving away from floppies and drives and all that ...
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Simple, editable design system for clients?
Something like Canva templates
What if you consider... Canva?
You can upload files, that can be the base file, probably the background, and then someone just log in and edit the file? It also has ...
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Good UX for container alignment for main content
I wouldn't go for none of the above.
I find it very annoying to have everything aligned to the left of the screen.
I would add a wrap container and center that to the screen. Add a darker BG color ...
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Subtle vs bright GUI design - Is there inherent value in design subtlety beyond user preference?
An important point to consider is the context of the design, is it for a one proposition app or website, or a complex online tool. Vibrant strong colours can look great, however by using bright ...
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What can one do with a collection of unused, quality digital art/graphics?
I have decades of art taking up GB of hard drive space and it all goes unused 97% of the time.....
Sure I sell some. I give some away. I repurpose some. I've done "collections".
If you are at all ...
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How can I avoid icons with double meanings?
If you can't find a single concept or item that doesn't already imply something else then you could use a group of accessories.
Accessories are often unrelated to eachother so the group is unlikely ...
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How can I make a heading more legible on a real estate background?
This post if full of random image examples from a Google Image Search. Images are copyrighted to their original creators. No license or permission should be attributed to any images in this posting.
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How do I differentiate between vegan/vegetarian, wheat/gluten or dairy/lactose icons?
Not every concept can easily be drawn into an icon.
Material things, meaning actual physical objects can easily be associated with a symbol (laptop, car, dog, hat), but more abstract notions don't ...
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What is the name of this UI Element?
Those are simply called "cards" in every environment that I've seen them in. You could add other descriptors in this case, such as "flat", "rounded", and "low contrast" (the text in the images you ...
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Can you pin a symbol or layer to the bottom of an artboard in Sketch?
You can achieve this with the following steps.
Create a footer symbol with the container bigger than the footer itself. The footer has to be pinned left, bottom, right and fix height inside of the ...
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How do native speakers of a right-to-left-language read an image?
I can honestly say this isn't something I've thought about even though my career started in the publishing industry. Digging into it, this is certainly an issue depending on the country/culture you're ...
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What icon represents "recommendation"?
Subjective, since we don't know the overall context, but "recommending" a product generally involves sharing that particular product with a contact.
In the wording/notifications/etc, you can ...
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