Useful Links

• Gestalt Principles in UI design

• The High-Resolution Youtube Channel - . This channel is therapeutic. Listen to 25 Interviews with some of the top designers around the country share their stories.  You will soon see that you are not alone in the excitement and challenges we face every day. And you will see why our contribution as designers and as facilitators of design thinking techniques are essential for the success of the companies we work for.

Favorite Videos

Favorite Books

Useful Figma Links

• Figma Youtube Channel 

• An entire series of great videos from Figma's very talented Rogie and his friends and colleagues. This series has tons of tips for managing your design libraries, components, and style guides. Also a lot of great content around using Auto-Layout and constraints for responsive designs. 

• Sign up for Figma live hosted video events like tips and tricks
   

PLUGINS:

• Master - This is a paid plugin but extremely helpful for your component development and maintenance. Thisis the only plugin that I have found that helps your you reconnect  disconnected plugins.  The Author Gleb is one of the most active plugin developers in the Figma community and a super nice guy. 

  • ​https://dominate.design/ is Glebs home page for the Master Plugin

• Styler -  help you generate your styles

• Design System Organizer - does exactly what it says. This is a super valuable tool to help you manage your library. Especially your color pallet. 

• Themer - A brilliant plugin created by Tom Lowry that lets you quickly switch your designs between different theme's like light mode and dark mode.  This plugin also forces best practices to set up your design environment in the same way that your dev team would do it if your application offered this flexibility to your users. 
   

COMMUNITY PAGES:

• Shameless plug for one of my contributions - "Auto Layout Form components" - this file has some very flexible forms that really take advantage of different auto-layout capabilities.