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A guide to landing your first product design role

Curious about early career opportunities at Figma? Here are some tips on how to get your first product design job, along with insights on what we look for.

How to Optimize Fonts for Better Web Performance and User Experience

Font performance optimization is a set of web development techniques that make fonts load faster and render more smoothly. They involve practices such as thoughtful font selection, the use of performant font formats, self-hosting, optimized @font-face declarations, font display strategies, and more.

The 80/20 rule in design job interviews

One warm, Italian, summer day in August 1907, Vilfredo Pareto noticed something odd in his garden — some pea pods produced more peas than others, no matter what he did. Being a curious polymath, he inspected the peas closely and concluded that roughly 20% of pods produced 80% of the produce.

Navigation UX Design: Types & Best Practices

In today’s fast-paced digital world of instant gratification, users expect to find what they need quickly and efficiently. Poor navigation can cripple your website or app, driving users away and costing you valuable conversions. This is where navigation UX comes in, serving as a silent guide, enabling users to achieve their objectives quickly and intuitively.

Creating Complex Visuals with Grid Displacement

Learn how to apply a pixel/grid displacement to a texture in Three.js using shaders and GPGPU with a subtle RGB shift effect on cursor move.

The Future of Styling on the Web

CSS Houdini, a revolutionary advancement in web styling, is reshaping the way developers approach design on the internet.

How Wireframing Boosts Product Design

Wireframe represent a skeleton structure or an initial concept of any future website, system, app or any other digital product. It focuses mainly on crucial aspects like page structure, layout, information architecture, user flow, functionality, and intended behaviors and other active parts neglecting details related to color, typography or graphics.

Measuring Empathy in Design: A New Tool for UX Professionals?

Empathy is often considered an integral part of user-centered design. However, measuring this skill has posed significant challenges for researchers and practitioners alike.

Is Mozilla’s New Logo a Secret Homage to the Early Web?

New logo designs in recent years have generally tended towards simplification. Brand identities are often reduced to their core elements to make them quicker and easier to interpret. That makes the new Mozilla logo a little surprising at first glance.

Inside the Design Education Series: A Case Study

Explore how the Design Education Series (DES) by Obys Agency was developed to provide a dynamic and engaging learning experience with innovative design and 3D features.

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