Gabrielle Merite (She/Her)

Plant-addict, data junky, creative, advocate for ecosystems, cat lady and writing this in third person.

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[Gabrielle Merite (She/Her) @Data_Soul]

Finally got the first version of my new website up! ✨ Data stuff, free resources and a little bit of collage magic.
https://t.co/PPntmPhVe6

[Gabrielle Merite (She/Her) @Data_Soul]

@jenny_wen Best pitch for a job ever 😊

[Gabrielle Merite (She/Her) @Data_Soul]

@asallen Well, thank you 💜

[Gabrielle Merite (She/Her) @Data_Soul]

@miggi @figma We found a work around by using "fake" aspect ratio autolayout from the community files inside the Image container component.

[Gabrielle Merite (She/Her) @Data_Soul]

@miggi @figma For image use case for instance, our cards have several aspect ratios. In practice, they can be set up to any column span on a grid on the CMS side. In mockups, we had to find a way to reproduce this effect with the cards resizing but the ratio staying true.

[Gabrielle Merite (She/Her) @Data_Soul]

@chartwaali @BehanBox @RevisualLabs @aishyinabubble @schubertda1 👏👏👏 Really exciting to see it launched! Congrats to the team!

[Gabrielle Merite (She/Her) @Data_Soul]

@buriedsignals I won't take credit for prototyping the entire story in Figma by myself. A good part of the work was laid down by Tommaso Renzini.

But yes, I usually prototype the entire design (and interactions) in Figma before development.

[Gabrielle Merite (She/Her) @Data_Soul]

@danmall 1 month project are fast-paced. They're rewarding because I get to see the results faster but they're often less impactful. They're less likely to get delayed.

I like how they help me keep my cash flow high since the payments are closer in time.

[Gabrielle Merite (She/Her) @Data_Soul]

@danmall 6 months projects are super rewarding because they give us bigger scope = bigger impact. But they often become larger, clients/team gets less motivated with time etc...

Also, payments milestones are further apart.

[Gabrielle Merite (She/Her) @Data_Soul]

@figma Hell yeah.

[Gabrielle Merite (She/Her) @Data_Soul]

@danmall @superfriendlyco So inspiring to hear! I don't think I have seen this from agency owners before. Thank you Dan.

[Gabrielle Merite (She/Her) @Data_Soul]

@danmall 👋

[Dan Mall @danmall]

I’ve been talking a lot lately about my new products where I teach #designsystems, so a lot of people have been asking to see design systems that I’ve made.

That’s a fair and reasonable request!

In tomorrow’s newsletter, I’ll show my design system portfolio to 28,200+ subscribers.

It probably doesn’t look like what you’d expect.

Subscribe here to see it: https://t.co/0GB8aWzFav

[Gabrielle Merite (She/Her) @Data_Soul]

@danmall Not a component, but tokens for color palettes for data visualizations & chart... 🥵

[Gabrielle Merite (She/Her) @Data_Soul]

@GraphicHunters Thank you :)

[Gabrielle Merite (She/Her) @Data_Soul]

Finally got the first version of my new website up! ✨ Data stuff, free resources and a little bit of collage magic.
https://t.co/PPntmPhVe6

[Gabrielle Merite (She/Her) @Data_Soul]

All the little things about a day in the life of a dataviz designer. From working out at 5am (@AlliTorban), daily logbooking (@duncangeere), hour-long dog-walk-work sessions (@W_R_Chase) and working until 2am (yours truly).

Learn everything about our dataviz days!

[Elevate Dataviz Learning Community @DatavizElevate]

Have you ever wondered how a day in the life of a dataviz designer looks like? ⏰

We got inspired by @visualisingdata's recent blog post, and present you, not one, but four different days. One with each of our mentors !

https://t.co/ReSGkDX1mt