Articles by Topic

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This page is an organized archive (articles by topic) of all the articles/blog posts. You could navigate to posts of your liking!

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UI/UX Design Journal

Design system Chronicles

• Post#1 (Design System Chronicles) - Why I’m Building Tenet UI

• Post #2 (Design System Chronicles)- Setting up colours for Tenet UI with colorbox.io

• Post #3 (Design System Chronicles)- Organizing colour variables in Figma

• Post #4 (Design System Chronicles) - Designing a Scalable and Accessible Dark Theme

• Post #5 (Design System Chronicles) - Semantic tokens (colour) in action

• Post #6 (Design System Chronicles) - Establishing a typography system

• Post #7 (Design System Chronicles) - Typography variables

• Post #8 (Design System Chronicles) - Breaking Down Component Research

• Post #9 (Design System Chronicles) - Component Thinking: A recap of my component design workflow

UI/Product Design/Design systems

• Designing colour palettes that work for every project

• Colours Revisited: Optimizing Your Design Workflow

• Crafting a semantic colour system: Fixing the colour chaos, one semantic variable at a time

• Plotting matrices to create consistent and scalable colour tokens

• "Auto layout" Chapter 1 - Fundamentals

• "Auto layout" Chapter 2 - Building a responsive card

• Breaking It Down: The Basics of Component Properties

• Crafting Components with Subcomponents and Nested Instances

• Building for efficiency and usability: A Case Study on Component Design

• The "Icon properties" hack: Manipulating icon component properties

• Creating a simple "Input Text" component set

• Where design debt begins (And how to stop it)

• Creating Tenet UI (design system) for Cohesive, Consistent and Scalable Design — a case study

• Learning by Deconstructing: Trying to Reverse Engineer a Design System for the Coursera Mobile App - Part 1 (Foundations)

• Designing HackDentistry, a Learning Platform for Busy Dental Students - a case study

• Learning UI design through deliberate practice

• Just starting your UX/UI journey? Start with learning UI/visual design!

Pixels and Process

• Pixels and Process #1 - Geeking over the good stuff

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Productivity/Personal Growth

• Confidently Lost - Navigating growth when you don’t have all the answers

• I jumped from being a dentist to a UX/UI designer. The price I had to pay was consistency, focus and obsession!

• Life Hacks

• Embracing uncertainty to do great work

• Tolerate boredom

• Sticking to your long term goals

• The meandering path of the Generalist or the "Late Specializer"

• On becoming better than "good enough"

• How to keep going when you feel uncertain

• How to find work you’ll love doing

• Learning how to LEARN

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Entrepreneurship

• Is Entrepreneurship a "Good Life"? Happiness, Meaning and Psychological Richness

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Technology

Privacy, Security and Op-Sec

• Prevent scammers from impersonating you on Facebook!

• Tools for improving privacy and security during web browsing

• Why you should use a password manager

• Email hygiene - Compartmentalizing email addresses for better privacy and security

• What you could do if your credentials are breached

• A road-map to basic Internet Privacy & Security

• All you need to know about cookies - Part II (How third-party cookies track you online)

• "Private Browsing" - A high level view of what it does and does not do!

• Let's discuss 2-Factor Authentication

• Using Burner Emails for privacy - Hiding you real email address

• Why everyone should know how a URL is structured - HTTPS, Typosquatting and Open redirects

• So, what’s the big deal with passwords?

The Web

• How the web works!

• All you need to know about cookies - Part I (How cookies work)

Web hacking/Open Source Intelligence

• OSINT: How and why you would want to do a reverse image search - An overview

• The need for note making and an organized methodology in Bug Bounty Hunting

• The fascinating World of Bug Bounty hunting - What it is and how you could get your feet wet

• Teach yourself some online “verification” skills!

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Curation

• Curation 403 - Issue 3

• Curation 403 - Issue 2

• Curation 403 - Issue 1