Author: Brian Dys
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Reading List: Week 2, February 2021
When you’re forced to be simple, you’re forced to face the real problem. When you can’t deliver ornament, you have to deliver substance.Paul Graham
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Documenting your work as a designer: An overview
Last month, I’ve wrapped-up with the 4th part of a talk that I’ve shared with the UX design team: Documenting your work as a designer. This topic tackles the other side of design work (and any work, in general), which is documenting your experiences and learnings from projects. Overview Part 1: The whys and hows…
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Reading List: Week 1, February 2021
Very often, we don’t seek to be right, we seek to be “more right” compared to somebody else, whether an individual or a group of individuals.Anne-Laure Le Cunff
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Reading List: Week 4, January 2021
If you want to see if something works, make it. The whole thing. The simplest version of the whole thing – that’s what version 1.0 is supposed to be. But make that, put it out there, and learn.Jason Fried
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Changing colors via selective color in Photoshop
Jaycelle requested me to change the color of her blouse from red to mustard. It’s easy with an app, that’s true. However, before all those algorithms and automations, there was a semi-manual way of doing it — using selective colors in Photoshop. Music: Tweakers by Brian Dys
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Enhancing signatures in Photoshop
Got a scanned or photographed signature with a messy background? Here’s an easy way of enhancing it to be in PNG with a transparent background. In Adobe Photoshop: Resize the long side of the image to 1920px or higher Image → Adjustments → Threshold Select black-only via Alpha Channel Make BG transparent and save as…
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Of cover letters
This week at Avaloq, I officially re-wore my hiring manager cap for the UX design team, as we’ve officially published our open positions. I spent the latter part of the week reviewing applicants and determining who among them are candidates. Appreciate all of you, designers (and you, one industrial designer, and also you, one visual…
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Reading List: Week 3, January 2021
Fast gets all our attention, slow has all the power.Stewart Brand
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Reading List: Week 2, January 2021
We love that you’re so grounded in science and data. But there’s more to making meaning than facts.Lois Kelly