I launched my new website in May after taking a long break from my personal business. Taking a few steps back helped me realise what I needed to do to be more productive and efficient. I needed a new website that would elevate my personal brand and be a hub for everything I do. Here’s a short story about how I evolved my personal website. — This post was originally published on my private blog where I write about design, remote work, minimalism, and life in general. Join my mailing list to get future posts in your inbox!

Designers can’t do their job properly if they aren’t in the same room with the people they work with. Good collaboration is preconditioned by collocation. — This post was originally published on my private blog where I write about design, remote work, minimalism, and life in general. Join my mailing list to get future posts in your inbox! That’s what I used to believe. In fact, I believed it so much that I turned my life…

There weren’t as many web fonts to pick from when I started my freelance career in the early 2000s, still I was always overwhelmed by the number of fonts to choose from. With no formal education in design or typography, my choices were uninformed and limited. — It’s kinda funny to look back and realise that it was harder for me to choose fonts when there were fewer to choose from than now. I had moved away from being a freelance graphic designer in the years since then, but I still do branding, web design, and graphic…

This is the period when I usually receive a couple of emails in which people ask me if I’ll have a Black Friday sale for my book. My answer is always “no, I don’t do Black Friday sales” and then I never hear back from them. They never ask why but I decided to write this post and share my thoughts. — Black Friday is often referred to as the “consumerism holiday” and I can’t help myself but this sounds so wrong to me. The level of consumerism that we got to in the world today is absurd. Maybe I think that because of my minimalist mentality and lifestyle. Minimalism is something…

I’d always used the Monaco font and Sublime Text for coding but I recently decided to switch to VS Code. That change also led me to explore monospaced fonts suitable for coding as I worked on customising my VS Code theme. — Originally published on the Better Web Type blog. At some point, I found Fira Code and loved the fact that it had coding ligatures, so I made the switch. That wasn’t long ago, but I recently did even more research into monospaced fonts and found my new favourite, you can…

I continued with my habit of reading for at least 30 minutes a day in 2019. It’s now such a fundamental part of my life that I can’t imagine spending a day without it. …

Do you love doing what you do? Do you love it to the point that you’d do it for free? — I remember telling this to the CEO of the first company that hired me as a full-time UX designer: “thanks for the raise but it really isn’t about money for me. If I could, I’d do this for free.” They were really happy with my performance so they gave me…

I recently received an email from a designer called Jared. He went through the typography lessons that I offer as part of the free course and he was very grateful for them. He said he learned a lot but also had one important question: how do I go about choosing a font for my project? — This post was originally published on the Better Web Type blog. He told me that he works for a design agency and choosing fonts for websites they work on is something he does all the time. It’s also something that frustrates him a lot since he never studied design and…

Designing with a baseline grid in Sketch speeds up the visual design process, enables designers to produce consistent mockups and establishes a consistent vertical rhythm in the designs. — This post was originally published on the Better Web Type blog. The first major article that talks about aligning type on the web to a baseline grid was the one by Wilson Miner for A List Apart back in 2007. Revisiting the article now, it feels a bit clumsy to…