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April 27 - Issue #12

Hello there!

I hope you’re having a great week! Here’s another episode of DfH with some very interesting stories.

Once a week, I bring you the best products, stories & tools related to product design & startups. We have been talking about building products for a while and have recently covered some sales & growth stories. This week we have some stories which can help massively improve your design process.

Last week the incredibly talented people at Focus Lab LLC gave DfH a shout out in their Sidecar newsletter. I just thought you should know.

Product Design Stories

Design Principles for Reducing Cognitive Load

blog.marvelapp.com – Share

By following the principles here, you can drastically reduce the user’s cognitive load and ensure their attention isn’t being wasted on elements that do not help them. It is important to remember that the user has a goal, whether it is to buy a product, understand something or simply to learn more about the content.

Introduction To Hierarchy

uxplanet.org – Share

Hierarchy is a straightforward concept to discuss once diagrammed. Many of the rules of visual hierarchy mentioned in this article seem overly simple and banal, but they are a critical foundation for any good graphic design.

Reducing Design Complexity

medium.com – Share

To distill a design down to its simplest form, designers must reduce complexity and eliminate anything that distracts from the primary goal…

Cool tools

zeroheight

zeroheight.com – Share

zeroheight is a Sketch plugin (Currently FREE during beta 🎉) which makes is super simple for designers to collaborate on design libraries.

Free Stock Photos & Royalty-Free Images for Entrepreneurs

burst.shopify.com – Share

Free stock photos for entrepreneurs. Download royalty-free pictures for your business; all the images are free for personal and commercial use.

Product of the week 💝

Gravit Designer

designer.io – Share

We, at Design for Humans, love free alternatives to expensive design software. Gravit Designer is a full featured free (unlike Photoshop & Sketch) vector design app, which is easy to use (unlike Photoshop) and and is fully cross platform (unlike Sketch). You can use it to design on any device, or even directly on the browser. Give it a shot! 🔥🔥

That's all this week

I hope you enjoyed this issue of Design for Humans. I’d love to know your thoughts on any of the tools covered here. I’m planning to bring in some great deals (discounts, extended trials) on design/startup apps & services exclusively for DfH readers. Is that something you’d find useful?

Would you like your article/product featured in the next episode? Got any feedback/opinion on this issue? As usual, just reply to let me know. I read EVERY email.

🖐 High five from Mumbai,

Arun

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