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How do Switch Careers from Graphic Design to UX/UI Design? Changing professions can be tricky when you need a guide to the right steps. While the graphic design profession is very stable, it is okay to want a change. Whatever your reasons for a career change, it’s essential to be sure of your decision before you take action. Breaking into UI/UX design is not a walk in the park, especially in graphics design. However, by following the proper steps, fueled by your determination to succeed in the new field, you can make a smooth transition. Thus, this article will explain the steps to switching your career from graphic design to UI/UX design. Mark the Difference Graphics and UI/UX design have much in common, yet they are very different. As a graphic designer, you create professional visual content to relate messages to an audience, including images, flyers, social media posts, and print designs. Graphic designers also use vector graphics and illustrations to communicate a message in a way...

The meaning of colors: How to use colors in your art! Everywhere you go, you see colors: white clouds in the sky, green vegetation inching up gray stone structures and red brick buildings, grounding brown soil beneath your feet. You don’t just see these colors…you feel them. Each color has a different meaning and can evoke different emotions in people. Color psychology is a branch of color theory that studies how you can use each color to create emotion, mood, and feeling in art.  Where do color meanings come from? Color meanings come from a variety of places. Some are primal, like the color green’s association with growth and fresh vegetation. Others developed later from modern environments people found themselves contending with, like the color green’s association with poison and death for 18th-century Europeans (due to the era’s green dye containing arsenic). And sometimes color meanings can change over time, like how green’s association changed from the color of poison to the c...

Recalling Color Theory Keywords: a way to refresh your memories! The Color Wheel The relationship between colors can be shown through the use of the color wheel. The color wheel shows links between different colors based on the red, yellow, and blue content of each color. It was first developed by Sir Isaac Newton in 1666. The color wheel’s most useful and most commonly used variant is shown in the image above, which includes red, red-orange, orange, orange-yellow, yellow, yellow-green, green, green-blue, blue, blue-purple, purple, and purple-red combinations. (Stone, 2008). Bleicher (2011) stated that the color wheel can be categorized into three main types of colors based on the combination of base colors used to create the final color, as follows: Primary colors: Primary colors - yellow, red, and blue. These are basic colors that cannot be broken down into any simpler colors. Secondary colors: Secondary colors  - are created by mixing two primary colors. The secondary col...

What is the golden ratio? The golden ratio, also known as the golden number, golden proportion, or divine proportion, is a ratio between two numbers that equals approximately 1.618. Usually written as the Greek letter phi, it is strongly associated with the Fibonacci sequence, a series of numbers wherein each number is added to the last. The Fibonacci numbers are 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, and so on, with the ratio of each number and the previous number gradually approaching 1.618, or phi. History of the golden ratio. The first known mention of the golden ratio is from around 300 BCE in Euclid’s Elements, the Classical Greek work on mathematics and geometry. Euclid and other early mathematicians like Pythagoras recognized the proportion, but they didn’t call it the golden ratio. It wasn’t until much later that the proportion would take on its mystique. In 1509, Italian mathematician Luca Pacioli published the book De divina proportion, which, alongside illustrations by Leonardo da Vi...

The graphic design you need to know! Graphic design is a creative discipline that involves visually communicating ideas, messages, and information using various elements such as images, typography, colors, and layouts. It encompasses a wide range of design projects, including branding, advertising, print design, web design, packaging, and more. Graphic designers use their artistic and technical skills to create visually appealing and effective designs that engage and communicate with the intended audience. Graphic design is the process of creating visual content to communicate messages. It is a broad field that encompasses a wide range of activities, from creating logos and branding to designing websites and apps. Graphic designers use typography, imagery, color, and form to create visually appealing and effective designs. There are many different types of graphic design, each with its own unique set of skills and techniques. Some of the most common types of graphic design include: Log...

What benefits of Design Systems for Designers, Developers, Product Owners, and Teams? WHAT IS A DESIGN SYSTEM? A design system in its most basic form is a collection of design and code decisions that everybody uses. Like a style guide but with components (like buttons or cards) as design and code resources. It’s a framework of building blocks, based around centralized design decisions. A design system can have a positive impact on business goals, workflow, team and user happiness, and on shaping the brand experience for the customers and the employees. Knowing the benefits can be useful when you try to convince your management that a design system is not a waste of money. Or when you want to convince your designers that it will not replace the creative part of their job. BENEFITS OF DESIGNING SYSTEMS FOR EVERY MEMBER OF THE TEAM 1. Scalability Most companies run into issues when scaling up their products. The main issue is a non-linear increase in effort. This often happens both during...