You should care about design principles because it will help you become a better designer. It will not matter what type of design you are doing wether product or graphic design or motion design

Why Care About Design Principles

Your design must have Feasability, Desireability and Viability in your designs that in turn will make it innovative and much more effective of a design that then aids the design process

1. The Design Must Be Innovative 

You need to actually find problems before you go out and try and solve them that is very important. Your designs must actually solve a problem thus making it possible that your designs does good in this world

Good Design Makes Product Useful 

We value beautiful things. Good designs must first and foremost be good to look at. Thing of Form and Function. You must work for your user not you. It’s Justine the aesthetics Usability effect having your designs look good is a plus.

Good Design Is Aesthetics 

Your designs should be self explanatory. You shouldn’t need to explain everything. The more simpler it is the better. Simplicity is good but as Teslas law brings out we need to make sure we don’ make it too simple

Good Design Makes Product Understandable

Having your designs is very good but you need to make sure that you have only the core functions. The designs can’t be cluttered, or confusing for it to be successful

Good Design Is Unobtrusive 

No dark pattern. They know what to expect what you see is what they get which is very important

Good Design Is Honest 

Good designers don’t chase trends rather they look at the history of trends and reflect and make sure you are making the right decisions about different trends and just keep improving.

Good Design Should Last A While 

Make sure your team cares about every little detail because then customers will have no complains thus making your designs much better.

Good Design Is Thorough Down To The Little Detail 

Good design is designs that don’t require people to use it that much it shouldn’t be essential.

Good Design Is As Little Design As Possible 

In this video, I'll share some of the best 10 design principles that have been used across a variety of design fields: from industrial to graphics and digital product design. Originally outlined by Dieter Rams, the 10 principles can make almost anyone's strategic and tactical design decisions better. I'll draw parallels with UX research, product design and a variety of other booming professional contexts where solving user problems with the right methods is not just desired, but the only option. Resources mentioned in the video: Future's thinking alongside design thinking: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-future-cone-adapted-from-Hancock-and-Bezold-1993_fig1_325526604 🙌 If you like this video, you'll definitely like what comes next; SUBSCRIBE to this channel and don't forget to share, like, comment: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMEQZDhP_k_YkFnwoCgT7SQ?sub_confirmation=1 Additionally, you can also join, get perks and support this channel as a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMEQZDhP_k_YkFnwoCgT7SQ/join 📚 Get Into UX Book: https://bitly.com/getintoux 🎒 Get 3 months free of the IDF Courses and Bootcamps (note this is an affiliate link that supports the channel): https://www.interaction-design.org/learn-ux-design?ep=vaexperience 👐 Design Squad UX community on Discord: https://discord.gg/CXAKW7PGwt 👕 Merch: https://www.youtube.com/c/VAEXPERIENCE/store 📩 Newsletter: https://updates.vaexperience.com/

10 Principles to Good Product Design

when you hold that alt and then shift then you can duplicate something and keep it in line with what you already have. It is a very quick way to quickly duplicate what you have and keep it in line

Alt Shift To Duplicate Something 

It is useful to see everything so you can make sure you are designing everything unified, it’s much easier to use this than using the tool and use the Cntrl + and - tools

Command 0 To Fit The Design to Screen 

Hold down alt and then move the arrow key left or right to change tracking Hold the arrow keys up and down to change the leading of the text as well.

To Fix Tracking And Leading 

To size something from the center hold Control Alt and Shift and then drag it out and then it will stay in the same position just large than it was very useful

Sizing It From The Center 

To change something from stroke to fill hit x and then to change something a color to nothing hit the backslash keyboard shortcut

Fill Colors 

Cool Indesign shortcuts that you should add 

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10 InDesign Keyboard Shortcuts

Do a brain dump put everything in a peice of paper this is very important because now instead of dealing with the scariness of not knowing you are just dealing with a task list Dealing with a task list is pretty easy you can go down the list and tackle them if you just think I have a lot of things to do that doesn’t help you accomplish them

#1 Pause And Organize 

Stop working on things that are not helping you or that are just busy work. Focus on the most important tasks that you can do to further your life and your career Every so often make sure you take a moment and stop to assess where you are at in your career that is very important

Clear The Decks 

Make sure that you prioritize your tasks that extremely helps to stop feeling overwhelmed. Block your tasks into meaningful chunks and then reproritize them

Reprioritize 

Take time to work on your self make sure you stay active and do things that you love You don’t have to overwork yourself to be a good employee rather you must be productive and create value to the company. Don’t accept every new challenge that comes up. Rather schedule out your time

Don’t Work Even More 

Realizing why your work is important is useful. That can help you grow and communicate better.

Realize Why Your Work Is Important 

I’ve been feeling a bit burnt out this helped 

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6 Strategies For Dealing With Creative Burnout (from 2021)

This is a huge micro skill that you need to learn if you ever want to be successful articulating an idea means that you are able to get your thoughts verbally or onto paper in a concise and meaningful way How can you apply this: You can get better at articulating an idea by journaling another way is by trying to be concious about how you articulate an idea to your family members or coworkers

Articulating An Idea 

You need to get people excited if you want to get peoples backing. It is very important to do so because then you will get support for what you want to take place You can apply this by always trying to get better at pitching or selling an idea, you also want to make sure you are invested in the idea as well

Getting People Excited 

This is a combination of steps 1 and 2 it means that it is important to be able to show people a vision and have people able to follow itGet an idea then try and convince someone your comfortable with that idea ask where you did good or where you can improve

Selling The Vision 

Networking is one of the most important skills that you need to have to be successful in the workplace. It’s who you know, you better believe that Network whenever you can it’s pretty easy once you get over the fear. Meet new people and try to be genuine and of good help that is very important

Casual Networking 

Always try and give more than you take that is important because it shows that you can give value when you bring value that is the only way that you can truly start making money

Give A Little More Than You Take 

Wow these micro skills were very useful beyond belief 

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10 Micro Skills To Win At Life

When you begin designing the first thing you want to ask is what is the first thing or the most important thing you want your viewers to gain and then make it the most prominentThere are many ways of doing this some include color, size, spacing. Having a focal point helps guide your user through your designs,

Focal Point

- Out of all the design principles I would argue about this is one of the most important, the reason for that is with Hireachy it makes your designs look more unified and complete

Hirearchy

You want your designs to breathe, so by utilizing white space, you allow it not to look cluttered and reduce your user's cognitive load, thus making it a better viewing experience.By adding more whitespace you can instantly take your designs to the next level

White Space

By knowing these 3 principles you can utilize them to your advantage thus creating better designs, also now when looking at others' designs you can figure out why they made certain decisions and understand it.

How To Use These Principles

Layout is very important in Graphic Design this video shows 3 ways to create a better layout

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10 Principles to Good Product Design

10 InDesign Keyboard Shortcuts

6 Strategies For Dealing With Creative Burnout (from 2021)

10 Micro Skills To Win At Life

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