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We sat down with designer Bradley G. Munkowitz and talked about the importance of personal projects. He is famous for doing all the holograms in Tron Legacy, UI work in Oblivion or the Windows 10 desktop wallpaper.

GMUNK (Bradley G. Munkowitz) on the importance of personal design work

Yuan Wang is the Experience Design Lead at Airbnb. She previously led the design of Twitter Threads and worked as a Senior Designer at Mozilla. Explore some great lessons from her impressive design journey.

Making every Airbnb trip magical with Experience Design Lead, Yuan Wang

Noah Stokes is the Design Director at Dribbble. He started his career working for Apple, but he wasn’t happy with the job. How did he join the Dribbble, and what is he currently working on? Check The Grit episode - 009.

The journey towards giving designers spotlight on Dribbble with its Design Director Noah Stokes

Bonjour! I'm French, and I come from a neighborhood Fox News once called a "No Go Zone." I'd not recommend my hometown to tourists, but I can say many good people grew up there and made the best out of what they started with to have a good life.

Head of Product Design at Product Hunt shares her tips for building your own freelance business

Hi! I’m a designer and creative director based in San Francisco. I’m a new transplant and moved here from New York! I love animals, people, color theory, and experimenting with different art forms.

Gender equality in design with Creative Director of Figma, Tori Hinn

Hi there! Absolutely. I’m a designer and illustrator from Vermont. I’m currently the lead icon designer at Font Awesome. Before that, I worked as a freelance designer through my company, Sensible World, and am a co-founder of Notabli, a private social network focused around families.

Designing icons with Lead Icon Designer at Font Awesome, Jory Raphael

Definitely design. Design is something I’ve always done. Ever since I was young, I was fascinated with computers. During the dot-com bubble, there weren’t a lot complex UIs. You would usually start with a simple website…

Why work for a hyper-growth product company with Ivy Mukherjee

Teaching designers how to code with Design+Code creator Meng To

I’m a Digital Product Designer at Lyft, designing software for self-driving cars. I’m also a published author, developer, design advisor, and semi-entrepreneur. Previously I worked as Product Design Lead at Atlassian…

From high school dropout to product designer at Facebook and Lyft: Tanner Christensen

I have one “shocker” fun fact that I pull out in interviews and awkward icebreakers: I was born at home. My parents paid the midwife forty bucks and half a pig for the delivery and — as it later came…

The career path of the new Head of Design at Intercom: Jasmine Friedl

People high in grit are able to maintain their determination and motivation over a long period of time. They overcome the obstacles to achieve greatness. It has become even a better precursor to success…

From flash websites to design systems with Linzi Berry, Design System Lead at Lyft

Ever since Avocode came to life, its goal has been to help designers and front-end developers from all around the world to efficiently collaborate and turn designs to code faster.

5 things you should know about Avocode

Thanks to you, Avocode will be four years old in January (since the launch of v. 1.0). All those years have been thrilli...

2018 review: Avocode 3, SDK, 48 updates and more

How do you prototype your web designs and mobile apps? Do you use a dedicated prototyping tool or have you shifted your...

Cover your Sketch, XD, and Figma prototyping workflow in one place

Yes there is and this tutorial will show you how. As promised, you don&apos;t have to buy the AI app. Just make sure you...

How to open Adobe Illustrator design files online?

The most frequent question I get as a designer: What is the key ingredient to great design? After 10 years in this indus...

How could the design industry innovate faster?

With every new update, Adobe XD strives to make the work of designers a bit easier and smarter. The latest release is no...

Good news for all Adobe XD Windows users: New Avocode integration here

What is a Design overview? Design systems. Everyone is talking about them, but are they really that big of a deal?

Meet Design overview — the first step to design systems in Avocode

Select a layer, a selection of layers or a layer group and hit export. When it comes to single layers, you can also double-click.

10 things you might not know about Avocode

Index Studio comprises a small, yet talented team of designers and developers with a penchant to deliver and develop well thought out solutions to client ideas/briefs.

How Index Studio clarified communication to developers and won their clients back

After 3 years from launching Avocode 2.0 we’re extremely excited to launch the Avocode 3 — the new generation of our product with new features that were requested 2,722 times.

Introducing Avocode 3 — World’s first truly cross-platform design hand-off tool

Ever since the launch of Sketch, the screen design space has changed for a lot of designers. But there were a lot of creative folks who have been slightly left out — all Windows and the Linux users.

Introducing new Adobe XD integration for Windows, Linux, macOS and the web

Would be nice if you can upload your Figma design to Avocode. Figma is a new design tool which is very similar to Sketch...

Introducing a new integration to import Figma design frames into Avocode

We strongly believe that design hand-off should be smooth&#x200A;&#x2014;&#x200A;no matter the design tool you’re...

Avocode app now integrates with Adobe XD CC

From now on, Avocode enables anyone to import, open and inspect layered Sketch designs on Windows, Linux (yes Ubuntu too), or on macOS without Sketch app. It even works in the browser

Major update: Open and inspect Sketch designs on Windows, Linux, and macOS

Don't you just love it when you meet a tourist in your own country and suddenly he starts speaking in your native language? Only last month, we had people from 126 countries visiting our website.

How we translated the Avocode website written in Next.js with the i18next package (2/2)

How the next big thing in JavaScript became the next big thing for our product presentation on the web.

Why is Next.js the web framework our Marketing Team always wanted? (1/2)

What are the benefits of SVG image format and the differences between image export options from Sketch app, lightweight inspecting tools, and Avocode.

The Best Way to Export a clean SVG from Sketch designs

Wondering how open the Sketch file format actually is? Here’s a story behind the very first ever PSD to Sketch Design Converter that is now used by thousand of designers, based on technology we already had in the house.

How we learned to read and write Sketch app data format

Are your switching to Sketch from Photoshop, but don’t have the time to recreate all your designs? In this tutorial.

How to convert Photoshop design to a layered Sketch file?

Are you running on macOS? Do you want to collaborate on your Sketch files with people who are on different platforms — such as Windows or Linux?

How to handoff Sketch Artboards and assets to developers — no matter their OS

Electron the technology that powers Avocode among many other apps, allows you to get a cross-platform desktop application up and running very quickly.