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The 12 hour product launch Hello ladies and gentleman, and welcome to the 12 hour product launch, brought to you by your host @disco_lu. You may remember me from such articles as You’re Not a …

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The blurring lines between product designer and product manager The design industry is careering towards a defining junction. Our job titles are all over the place, our career paths changing month by …

“Make it Like Bellow!” — Derivative Design and Branding a Podcast It’s not just that our jobs are now digital-first, it’s the extra weight that startup culture (mainly from our friends in …

Designing from the pixel up — A quick intro to atomic design When asked, I’d wager that most designers pine for a blank slate working environment — the opportunity to define their own …

How to run a successful design meeting — 4 tips Presenting work is a really underrated skill, at all levels of our career. It’s something that is central to the success of us landing our dream …

How to stay sane as a designer We’re a sensitive bunch, us designers. Imposter syndrome, whether real or not, was I’m sure invented by a designer. We hit lows hard and always look for reasons why …

Notification overload and coping with dark design patterns. Here’s how most of ours days start. We wake up swearing because we need another 2 hours sleep, turn off the alarm and check our …

Migrating to Figma: the business case, the process, and the libraries Upgrade Pack is a market-first flight and hotel upgrade app. Available to mass affluent banking customers, or as a unique …

Reflections on my 10th year as a designer This week marks my official 10th year as a professional designer, from my humble beginnings as an intern at an ecommerce company through to my position as a …

So you want to be a designer advocate? We’re hiring a second Designer Advocate to come and work alongside me on the EMEA team! I’ve already put in a lot of groundwork, but Figma is scaling …

Successful standups in a remote world I’m going to be honest with you — I hate daily standups. More broadly, I’m not that big a fan of routine, but I’m working on it 🙏 With this in mind …

The creative process — a systematic approach The ‘creative process’ is one of those mythical concepts that people want to be a master of, yet there are no hard and fast rules for; particularly …

When was the last time you stopped? I’m fortunate to work at a place (Figma) that grants us “recharge days” every so often. Despite having a batch of vacation days to use up over the course of …

Why designers need meetups I’m Luis, and I ran my first event last night. Have I ran an event before? No, but that’s not important. Having moved to Sydney (from London) in January, I forced …

On the journey to better feedback — Tips and tricks to transform your demos Okay designers, we’ve all been there. You’re sitting there in a meeting, presenting your work. You probably opened …

The importance of collaboration It may seem like an obvious statement given the current startup climate defining success with open road maps, fundraising milestones, and remote working, but as an …

Remove small talk, become smarter. Click to read Milk, No Sugar, by Luis Ouriach, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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Listen to this episode from Nodes of Design on Spotify. Luis Ouriach - who is an expert in communicating ideas through visual design, words, and debate. Luis is a lead product designer at upgrade pack, and he is a co-host of Noise podcast and manages a design publication - 8Px on medium.  Luis and I had a great conversation on design systems- tokens, values, elements, and so on. Luis shared his practical experience in building and scaling design systems and how one can start from scratch. The whole talk is filled with so much value and insights for anyone who wants to understand design systems or build one for their teams.  Reading list:    Ellio Dahl’s Intro to the 8pt Grid system. A brilliant introduction to the atomic mindset, starting from our fundamental 8pt units – https://builttoadapt.io/intro-to-the-8-point-grid-system-d2573cde8632  IBM’s Carbon design system, best holistic design system I’ve seen. And the design kits are available to download! – https://www.carbondesignsystem.com/   UXPin’s Adele is a compendium of design systems, and you can scroll through it all day https://adele.uxpin.com/   Luis part blog series on migrating our designs from Sketch to Figma. It’s long, but it gives a great insight into how I tackled it all - https://link.medium.com/kPzVX3vDh5   Gridlover.net/try – brilliant typography hierarchy tool   Atomic Design by Brad Frost, forms the basis of our thinking in this discipline – https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/atomic-web-design/  If this episode helped you understand and learn something new, please share and be a part of the knowledge-sharing community #Spreadknowledge. This podcast aims to make design education accessible to all. Nodes of Design is a non-profit and self-sponsored initiative by Tejj.

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In this article (the first part in a series of two), Luis Ouriach shares advice that helped him grow and become a better designer, and that he wishes he had when starting out in his career. These tips come from his experience as a user interface and product designer for close to ten years, and if you’re starting just now, then read on!


Ten Tips For Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine

If you are a beginner at design and are willing to learn UI (user interface), UX (user experience) and product design, then this article is definitely for you! In [Part 1](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/01/ten-tips-aspiring-designer-beginners-part1/), Luis Ouriach shared advice he wished he had when starting out in his career. In this second and last part of this series, Luis continues sharing tips that helped him grow and become a better designer throughout the years.


Ten Tips For Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine

Ask me anything with Luis from FigmaWho are YLD?YLD is one of London’s fastest growing product design and software engineering consultancies building excitin...

AMA with Figma - Design Systems London #5 - December 2022

Thales own the original copyright of this recording.--This is the recording of a talk I gave for the annual Thales UX assembly.This year, they offered me the...

Design systems, the business case – Thales UX assembly 2021

Subscribe to my design newsletter 💌 - https://newsletter.furquan.me/----------Hey friends, In this video we dive into the real basics of design systems. If ...