Quickly create a pie chart for your designs in under 2 minutes. Do you love working in Microsoft Excel? Excel has some great features, but to import it into Illustrator, one needs to download a variable script. Instead, I am going to show you how you can use Illustrator to create a simple pie chart. […]
If you watched some of my videos, you may have noticed my Place image keyboard shortcut isn’t the default setting of Command/Control Shift P. In my video tutorial, I will be showing you how to change a keyboard shortcut setting in Illustrator in about 60 seconds! Because I use InDesign, InDesign uses Command D. Trying […]
Re-Creating the Android Logo Practice with the tools of Illustrator by playing with the Adobe Illustrator tools. For our next tutorial demonstration, we will be re-creating the Android logo. In a previous video, you learned how to create the Microsoft logo using geometric shapes, and the eyedropper to sample colours from the image. We will […]
An excellent way to see how geometric shapes come into play while creating a logo is by doing a logo as an exercise. If you look at various logos such as Microsoft (uses squares), Toyota (ovals) and YouTube (rounded rectangle and a triangle), geometric shapes are essential to know. Watch our YouTube video now! Re-Create […]
Should you distort your text? Horizontal or vertical scale? Should we bold everything and use ALL CAPS throughout the website to get my point across? Should we small type for all our body copy so that we can get as much information on the page? Which word is distorted? If you answered ‘Yes’ to any […]
While working with a client, the client may need a logo, business cards, letterhead, envelopes to website design, forms, and favicons. What is the purpose of having artboards? Think of it as pages to a file. Artboards can be different sizes and orientations and can be arranged depending on your workflow. Although, the more artboards […]
There are so many different applications, software and programs that one could use as a user experience (UX) designer. Besides Balsamiq, Adobe XD, Figma, Sketch, one could also use the standard one InVision. Although InVision Studio has been out for the past year and a bit, InVision is a bare-bones application that not only works […]
There are many things to learn. Tell me about it. I am still learning new things. Did you know you can get yourself certified in YouTube? Really! YouTube Creator wants you to be successful and help the growing community of videos. They will help you make videos with excellent tutorials, help find your target audience […]
Past clients have sometimes say this is the only image they have from the previous design team. Unfortunately, there are words on top of this image. Although removing text for a client does raise a few flags for me? If the company indeed bought an image from a stock library such as Getty Images, or […]
One of the first wireframes that I had used to working with clients was Illustrator. It was okay, but it was a bit time-consuming. I would keep the create symbols for the often used assets to make other projects go faster. Then, I came across Balsamiq that changed a few things in my workflow of […]