October 22, 2023 — Editorial styling has made significant progress since Snowfall, which inspired Gutenberg. With the evolutions, you can automatically generate styles considering content, mood, or data input. As a result, it has become more sophisticated and accessible, truly generative. We’ll review the past looking at generative art and upcoming AI technology, and then explore current tool availability. Discover the need for intent, understand what happens beyond simple prompt-based styling and explore the true power of generative styling.

December 5, 2018 — In our early experience with WordPress, as the open source community took hold, we quickly realized the tools and information available to us were a game changer. Where I work, we are designers first. We have a great appreciation for those in the community, developers, users and of course designers, that make WordPress what it is.

WordPress is a platform loaded with design possibilities and surrounded with constantly growing resources that we use when we design. Just some examples are: page builders, online wire framing, and mock-up tools. I’ll discuss some tools that help us to make design decisions regarding typography, color and image editing on the fly, and look at ways to stage and present ideas. WordPress has afforded designers the ability to focus on working with art, color and visual concepts while making full use of functionality in the environment of the browser.

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July 10, 2018 — The lines between designers and developers are starting to blur. With the addition of tools like Sketch, Zeplin, Invision, and many others, we can improve our workflow and develop with record speed. Whether that’s designing a quick website as a freelancer, working with designers as a contractor, or simply prototyping your startup idea, these tools will help you translate your thoughts, improve your workflow, and essentially, communicate effectively.

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What is Sketch
The benefits of using Sketch as a developer
How Sketch Plugins speed up and streamline development

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June 28, 2017 — Miroslav reviews some nice tools to allow designers to chose fonts more easily, pick colors for their work, chose other proper tooling and shares his experience with the design software of choice — Affinity Design.

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