I’m starting a new series: Working Notes.
Twitter is full of beautiful, finished design artifacts.

But this is about the tiny heuristics, visual judgment calls, and lessons learned from my time at IDEO and running my design practice.
With all the mistakes and re-do’s.

The stuff that helps you escape junior mode.

aaaand best unexpected thing: I got a cool partner for this series, who cares about the next generation of designers - @framer!

let's go - bookmark this tweet so you can come back to the thread! Tip #1 (this one works for me EVERY TIME)
Does your layout feel meh or too safe? Are you stuck?
Try this:
Take one element and make it HUGE.
It’ll break the composition in a good way and help you unstuck and find a new direction fast.

I generated this set of icons in 3D style using DALL-E 2 by @OpenAI. 🤖

(or, did an AI generate this set of icons using text prompts by Charlota?🤔)

#dalle2 @OpenAI anyway, I wanted to try to replicate a visual style you can find around the internet a lot recently:

rendered 3D objects levitating on the page softly illimunated with some kind of gradient.