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If you’re not a graphic designer, how do you add that dash of visual flair to your UI that other designs get from beautiful photography or colorful illustrations?
One simple trick that can make a big difference is to add colorful accent borders to parts of your interface that would otherwise feel a bit bland.
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When you need to create separation between two elements, try to resist immediately reaching for a border.
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When designing these actions, it’s important to communicate their place in the hierarchy.
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Making text a lighter grey is a great way to de-emphasize it on white backgrounds, but it doesn’t look so great on colored backgrounds.
That’s because the effect we’re actually seeing with grey on white is reduced contrast.
Making the text closer to the background col...
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While it’s true that vector images won’t degrade in quality when you increase their size, icons that were drawn at 16–24px are never going to look very professional when you blow them up to 3x or 4x their intended size. They lack detail, and always feel disproportionately “chunky...
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A common mistake when styling UI text is relying too much on font size to control your hierarchy.
Try and stick to two or three colors:
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Instead of using large blur and spread values to make box shadows more noticeable, add a vertical offset.
It looks a lot more natural because it simulates a light source shining down from above like we’re used to seeing in the real world.
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