Category: Design
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Platform Mechanics, What?
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in DesignIf you aren’t familiar with the term above, that’s totally okay. I am here to explain it to you ( If you know the term, I am gonna explain it anyway 😉 ). There might be Other implications of the term “Platform Mechanics”, but here I meant using OS’s (Operating System)/Platform provided conventions in design,…
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Cookups: How we made a user-centric app
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in DesignCookups is the largest homemade food platform in Bangladesh, which I’ve worked on to tailor the user experience of users. It provides homemade food from authentic cooks. It’s actually more like an Airbnb of food for Dhaka (The city I live in). Some off-topic: Most of the Startups and/or businesses in our country don’t take…
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How I Manage My Icons In Sketch. – Part 3.
Hello Again, Hope you are well and experienced the new icons technique that I showed in part 1 & part 2 . Cool! Right? In the meantime Sketch 52 is released and came off with a lot of features. I also lost a ton of money by replacing the display of my MacBook Pro 2017 (That appeared suddenly without any…
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How I Manage My Icons In Sketch. – Part 2.
Hey, Good to see you after the First Part. Hope you got an idea about how I create icons in the first part and played with the techniques. In this part, we will cover how to use them. Usage If you have some concepts about Symbols & Libraries, using the icons we created should be…
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How I Manage My Icons In Sketch. – Part 1.
There are a lot of posts & articles about managing icons in Sketch. But none of them seems complete & they are scattered. It was tough for me to get the whole picture of this icon mystery. However, in this article, I will try my best to explain the whole icon workflow I use in…
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Some of My Favorite Sketch Plugins
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in DesignSketch & I have a love-hate relationship for a long time. One of the main reason I love sketch is its ‘pluggability’ (Able to plug things in). This is one of the reasons for sketch being so light, simple and yet functional. I hated sketch mostly for its availability (available on Macs only). N.B: I…
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How I manage to work on two startups at once
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in DesignI find it tough to make people understand about my work, mostly because of working at two companies distributedly. When people ask me “Where do you work?” The answer usually is “I work at two companies named Dingi & Cookups.” Then the whooing, wowing and whatnot starts. I manage to explain them with my time…
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Some of My Favorite Chrome Extensions
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I am a cross-platform guy. I tend to work on every platforms. Recently I switched to a hackintosh build. Still I use windows & arch on my old pal hp probook. I use chrome in all of the platforms. It has some beautiful & handy extensions which are available on every platforms. I use some…
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Getting Remote Design Jobs/Contracts without Marketplaces
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Some of the common questions that I get a lot: Do you work on upwork,elance or other marketplaces? Can I get your upwork profile link? I am bidding continuously but can’t find any work, How to bid perfectly? How do you do it? And so on. When I tell them that I don’t usually work…
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Why you Shouldn’t be a designer.
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in DesignWoah! Woah, cool down. You’ve got the right to do what you want to be. Even you can be a designer. And to be more specific any types of designer such as UI Designer, Graphic Designer or maybe a fashion designer. But ask yourself do you really want to be a designer? Or being a…