Henry Dan

Freelance UI & UX design for startups | | 8+ years

[Henry Dan @hdan_designs]

@matt_elevenlabs 11b

[Henry Dan @hdan_designs]

Just wrote a new article! Stop making your users design your product

Letting users customize your UI can be a crutch that can leads to garbage apps. I wrote a bit about about examples I've encountered in the past, and easy ways to avoid big problems.

https://t.co/kh9pyamSRq

[Henry Dan @hdan_designs]

@felixhhaas AI Deck

[Henry Dan @hdan_designs]

@damienghader @Lovable Worldwide

[Henry Dan @hdan_designs]

I've been diving into workflows in Figma Weave (https://t.co/8VfTQU28ob) ahead of its integration into Figma and I'm really excited about where it's headed.

[Henry Dan @hdan_designs]

Figma's Replace Content feature is massively underrated.

You can fill in data tables with specific data like "names sorted alphabetically" and since it's all generated instead of pulled from static lists you can easily tailor the options to your product or industry

[Henry Dan @hdan_designs]

@budapp I'd love to check it out!

[Henry Dan @hdan_designs]

@felixhhaas UI library

[Felix Haas @felixhhaas]

Ultimate Prompt Library for UI 🔥

I’ve been quietly building something I wish existed when I started designing with AI.

A complete UI design prompt library that helps you master different visual styles: expressive, cinematic, minimal, premium, nostalgic, warm, technical (20+ design styles in total).

Each style includes:
👉 When to use it
👉 Key vocabulary that trigger the style
👉 Copy-paste prompts for real UI work
👉 Pro tips for next-level results

Comment "UI Library" + repost and I'll share the link with you

[Henry Dan @hdan_designs]

@carlvellotti Cursor

[Carl Vellotti 🥞 @carlvellotti]

99% PMs don't know Cursor is GREAT for product work

I made a FREE course – learn Cursor IN Cursor!
🔹 Complete guide for product work
🔹 Make PRDs, analyze data, create decks

Eventually, I'll sell it for $99.
For the next 24h: FREE!
Follow + RT + comment "Cursor" & I'll DM it

[Henry Dan @hdan_designs]

@danmall Agreed. It's easy to fall into the trap of showing every single type of project you're capable of, but really if someone's hiring you for design systems work they don't want to see your logo project.

[Henry Dan @hdan_designs]

@JellyIvy This looks great! Did you use Magicpath or Figma Make?

[Henry Dan @hdan_designs]

Follow up tip: add drop shadows to your text for better legibility over image backgrounds.

Better yet, 50% to 0% transparent black gradient behind the text to improve contrast on that part of the image.

[Nils @nilseller]

Design tip:

Using images instead of gradients can make your designs much more human & exciting.

[Henry Dan @hdan_designs]

This is why it's always great to start with real-ish data.

If you're designing e-commerce for used clothing copy photos and titles from Craigslist.

Real estate app? Grab images from Zillow.

You don't want to run the risk of your perfect idealized UI falling apart because every user doesn't have a DSLR and studio lighting, or breaking legibility when someone's image has a white background.

I like to make sure I have a way to handle long names or titles if it's user generated content, and add semi transparent inner borders to images to separate them from the background color.

[dax @thdxr]

i hate when you have a beautiful design and then you implement it and the real data is a lot uglier than the mock data

[Henry Dan @hdan_designs]

Super excited for this

[Ridd 🤿 @ridd_design]

I’ll be interviewing some of my favorite designers on the planet next Monday:

✦ @henrymodis
✦ @pranathiperii
✦ @thenickpattison

~1500 people are already registered if you want to come hang 👇

https://t.co/tP20FUe6Oa

[Henry Dan @hdan_designs]

What do y'all use for AI image generation?

Just saw Visual Electric is being acquired by Perplexity and they're sunsetting the platform. Need to find a good alternative 😞

[Henry Dan @hdan_designs]

high value low effort way to win with AI: prompt better

[Henry Dan @hdan_designs]

@gutnichenko My biggest hesitation with MJ is that generations are public by default unless you pay $40+. I just don't think I could use it for work w/o private generations

[Henry Dan @hdan_designs]

Anyone have good tips for image generation in Gemini? I love how fast it is, but I’m not always getting great results compared to Chatgpt