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Published in Bootcamp

·Updated Oct 8, 2022

What’s after the canvas?

Hey you, with the glowing rectangle in your face. Yeah, you. Do me a favor really quick and open a modern design tool, I’ll wait. . . . Sketch Photoshop XD Canva Figma Framer Corel … pick one, doesn’t matter. You’ll see why in a minute. . . . . …

Design

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What’s after the canvas?
What’s after the canvas?
Design

11 min read


Published in UX Collective

·Updated May 4, 2021

Design prompts aren’t helping you

“Design a new Login flow for a Food app” “Create an app for ride sharing” “31 days of Interactions” “Make icons for a shopping app” Dear new or aspiring UX or Product Designer, these aren’t helping you get a job — at least not like they could. Let me clarify…

Design

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Design prompts aren’t helping you
Design prompts aren’t helping you
Design

5 min read


Published in UX Collective

·Jan 10, 2020

Figma’s killer feature hasn’t even been built yet

Large organizations are a maze. At each turn, projects are met with the mangled overgrown walls of “who”, “where”, and “what”. Who do I talk to about this? Who has done this before? Who is the expert? Who do I have to talk to to get something done?

Design

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Figma’s killer feature hasn’t even been built yet
Figma’s killer feature hasn’t even been built yet
Design

7 min read


Published in UX Collective

·Jul 16, 2019

Design tools are holding us back

They’ve never been faster. They’ve never had more UI design-centric features. They’ve never enabled more effective collaboration. But design tools are still holding us back. Our tools are still using methods, workflows, and features from graphic and visual design. I get it though. A lot of UI designers come from…

UX

11 min read

Design tools are holding us back
Design tools are holding us back
UX

11 min read


Published in Prototypr

·Nov 13, 2018

Figma tips and tricks

I started this document a while ago for the design team I’m on at Asurion, but I thought it would be helpful for others on the interwebs as well. Nothing here is advanced or anything, but it’s a help repo if nothing else. Have more to add? Have questions? …

Design

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Figma tips and tricks
Figma tips and tricks
Design

7 min read


Published in Prototypr

·Sep 11, 2018

Stop handing off concepts and start designing real products with Webflow.

I design products, prototypes, and interactions in Webflow. It’s throw-away code (mostly). It’s clunky for lots of screens. It’s slow to get started. It’s not super collaborative. It’s expensive for teams. The code it generates doesn’t really translate to React, Angular, or Native Apps. Yet I still can’t stop myself. …

Design

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Stop handing off concepts and start designing real products with Webflow.
Stop handing off concepts and start designing real products with Webflow.
Design

14 min read


Apr 6, 2018

I failed to build a design-driven culture

This is a tough one to talk about, folks. This is not an aspirational post, or even one that will give advice on how to avoid my mistakes. I don’t think I can show exactly where I went wrong, or how I could have changed anything. There is no happy…

Design

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I failed to build a design-driven culture
I failed to build a design-driven culture
Design

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Published in Figma Design

·Nov 7, 2017

What Tesla’s Model 3 UI reveals about its vision for the future

If you’re a designer/car enthusiast this post is for you. I’ve broken down the details of the dashboard controls and interface of the Tesla Model 3, the first mass-market, touchscreen only electric car. …

Cars

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What Tesla’s Model 3 UI reveals about its vision for the future
What Tesla’s Model 3 UI reveals about its vision for the future
Cars

8 min read


Published in Startups & Venture Capital

·May 24, 2017

You Are Going to Switch to Figma

I’ve read a lot of comparison articles about the two, but I don’t think they really do Figma justice. Some of them briefly mention the team features, the browserness, the components, and constraints, but they don’t really focus on how they’re better than versions in Sketch. At best, they make…

Sketch

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You Are Going to Switch to Figma
You Are Going to Switch to Figma
Sketch

14 min read


Published in theuxblog.com

·Jan 12, 2017

Designers Are Full of Bad Ideas

All of my ideas are bad. Every. Single. One. And yet, I still keep having them. My brain is chalked full of inconsistencies, inaccuracies, & incomprehensible iterations of interactions. …

Startup

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Designers Are Full of Bad Ideas
Designers Are Full of Bad Ideas
Startup

5 min read

Tom Johnson

Tom Johnson

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Design at www.basedash.com. Formerly Principal Designer @Asurion. Personal site -> www.tomjohn.design

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