@aarolston For my online portfolio, I went with the B approach.
But for job interviews and meeting with potential clients, I have a separate offline portfolio with approach A
📌 There are really 2 icon libraries you should use most of the time as a product designer:
feathericons .com
tablericons .com
Wide variety. All of them are stroke icons, so you can easily adjust the width, color or even turn them into filled icons.
And they are free.
Today we say goodbye to this great blue bird
This logo was designed in 2012 by a team of three. @toddwaterbury, @angyche and myself,
The logo was designed to be simple, balanced, and legible at very small sizes, almost like a lowercase "e", a 🧵
@krealdesign I’m thinking of starting with Framer as well, the waiting time for approval is something I cannot afford so Framer is my go to for now! Although my portfolio is built in Webflow 😅
@krealdesign Interesting!! I’m also looking to build my own Design System that can be customizable based on the client and platform I’m using… also, might buy some assets (fonts, illustrations, etc.) to add more value to my designs!
People get this backward.
They say hiring a designer is "costly".
You know what’s costly?
- Customers not satisfied.
- Not solving people's problem.
- Designing without research.
- Unusable product.
- Becoming redundant.
Make that hire.
And let them surprise you.
"It's a gift to be able to do something and to love it for the sake of it, I see people with talent, with all those things. But the one thing they don't have is just the love for doing it for the sake of it, So if there's anything, just find joy in what you do for the sake of it”