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Awwwards Redesign
Our favorite website inspiration site has a new design. I love how they've made the content stand out, used typography as the hero and added a floating context menu for easy navigation. The search has also improved with AI.
The Design Process
SPONSORLanding First Design Interview
Practical tips & insights to land your first interview in the exhausting journey of finding a design job. Jess Rosenberg – Director of Brand Design at Webflow, shares a step-by-step review process from the lens of a hiring manager with real application examples.
Material Design 3.0
Google updated their open source design system resources with the new Material Design guidelines. You'll find everything you need to learn and use the new Material Design patterns here. Loving the direction they're taking with themed colors & delightful motion.
Product Designer Salaries
An anonymous product designer working in tech in a high cost-of-living area shared the unsolicited offers they received in their mailbox for the past year. The article contains over 15 screenshots of the emails they received from the recruiters. They shared it to fight gatekeeping in tech.
Live Site – Capital
Capital is a banking app for founders to manage their funds. The app design looks beautiful and the site does it full justice. The colors, typography, copy, and UI shots blend nicely to create a soothing vibe. Scroll transitions are also very subtle & cool.
DESIGN JOBS
Wroclaw, Poland or Remote · Mid-level · Full time
Visual Designer – WalletConnect
Europe or Remote · Mid-level · Full time
Motion Graphics Designer – Directive Consulting
Remote · Entry level · Full time
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