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Vector icon speed runs
It’s common to have to draw the same kinds of icons over and over — many different apps and websites use similar glyphs, but each instance typically needs to be tweaked for size and style, so they need to be redrawn.
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My Mac app icon design workflow
My favourite Mac app icons are simple enough to be easily read in the Dock, yet they contain interesting details when viewed up close. They have large vibrant areas of colour, yet they contain enough contrast and shading to give them a sense of volume.
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Color Creator Templates
A set of Photoshop, Sketch and Affinity Designer documents that use base colors to generate larger palettes. It’s a bit like an advanced color picker, in the form of a document.
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When two colours can be one
Many user interfaces have dark and light themes. Having a dark and light theme usually means defining a full set of colours, and switching them when the theme switches.
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Displays for designers and developers
If you’re considering an external display for your Mac, there’s a few important decisions to make. Apple doesn’t sell external displays any more, so you can’t just default to their wisdom. That’s an issue, because not all displays are well suited for Macs.
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My icon design workflow
Here’s some tips for creating icons — anything from a single colour pictogram to a highly detailed app icon.
Design
Displays for designers and developers
Why I don’t use PDFs for iOS assets
Creating palettes with adjustment layers
Images and the macOS Color Picker
Skala
Photoshop
Batch processing with Generator
Photoshop CC 2015 improvements
Photoshop’s gradient positioning
Colour management and UI design
2014: Smart Objects and Layer Comps