May 31, 2018

P.E.I Design Monthly, 05/31

By P.E.I Design • Issue #2 • View online

It’s the second month for the P.E.I Design Monthly Newsletter. That means it’s official, this newsletter is actually happening. 😉

This issue we’re aligning with our meetup sponsor, Dribbble. Considering, we’re covering portfolios, case studies, and real-world examples of the design process!

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Meetup: P.E.I Dribbble Meetup

This month we ran the first official P.E.I Designers Dribbble Meetup! With a great turn out, presentations by Chris Macrae and Phil MacIsaac, and a social afterward we couldn’t have been more pleased!

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Show vs. Showcase // Speaker Deck

A discussion piece on the importance of sharing our thought process with the world to help build a better design community.

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Tips For Logo Design // Speaker Deck

Presented by Phil MacIsaac, a thorough look at the process behind logo design.

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Join us on Slack!

Join our online community today to get updates, participate in the conversation, and help build a better design community on Prince Edward Island.

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Selling & Showing Your Work

Creating a great design portfolio - InVision Blog

CareerFoundry’s Eric Bieller on what your portfolio should demonstrate, where to host it, and how to present your work during an interview.

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How to Write a Web Design Case Study that Lands New Clients

Learn how to create a compelling case study that will help you win over the trust and confidence of your clients.

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Why writing should be part of your design portfolio - InVision Blog

Sharing your design expertise builds your network.

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More Than Pixels: Selling Design Discovery

As designers, we know that research should play a pivotal role in any design process. Sadly, however, there are still a lot of organizations that do not see the value of research and would rather jump straight into the visual design stage of the design process…

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Process Made Simple

Adobe Blog: Prototyping 101

We’ll take a look at what a prototype is, what the difference is between low-fidelity and high-fidelity prototypes, and when you should use each one.

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The Complete Guide to Wireframing

The complete guide to wireframing for websites, mobile apps and more. From Framer.

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Smashing Magazine: Tips For Conducting Usability Studies With Participants With Disabilities

Including more diversity into your usability testing is vital for any product. Here are a number of things you need to consider when planning and executing usability testing with participants with disabilities.

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Design Tools

UX design with Google Docs and Sheets – UX Collective

How documenting our UX methodology and the use of a spreadsheet help us streamline the onboarding design, decision and thinking process.

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Figma is transforming my entire workflow – Thomas Lowry – Medium

Figma recently shipped the first full release of their Team Libraries system. It is no secret I have been obsessing over the development of this product. I went in skeptical about a web-based cloud…

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Haiku Blog - Figma ➟ Haiku integration, delivering motion.

It’s an exciting time to be a designer. At Haiku, we’re on a mission to empower product teams to add rich, interactive motion to their…

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That's all, folks!

Thanks for reading the second issue of P.E.I Design. Currently, this is a monthly newsletter. So our next issue will go out in the last week of June!

If you have any articles, tutorials, or cool links to share for the next issue, feel free to drop by our Slack community, or send an email to hello@princeedwardisland.design

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