Design Vitamins - Issue #20
Welcome to the 20th Issue of Design Vitamins ๐
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Five Finds of the week
Google Art Palette (Try Now ๐ ๏ธ)
Icon maker by Raycast (Play Now ๐)
Last year you said, next year - a piece by Linear (View ๐)
Iconoir - Free icons for your next project (Check it out ๐)
Wrap in a section - figma plugin to space out objects quickly (Try Now ๐)
Four Things to Read, See and Hear this week
How to create an engaging chatbot (View Guide ๐)
Touch Keyboard benchmarks & guide (View Article ๐บ)
Building a UI Color Palette (View Guide ๐)
Roshnara Anwar's Design Portfolio (View Portfolio ๐)
Three Things to Try this week
Superblog.ai - Blogging alternative for wordpress (Check Now ๐)
Mumu - Emoji picker for Mac (Try Tool ๐)
Figwashi Tapes - Create a custom figjam tape (Check Now ๐)
Two UI Breakdowns of an app
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Every week, we'll dissect an application/webapp and distill it down to two UI learnings we can take away from that app.ย
This week's chosen Application is Horo Timer
Horo is a free pomodoro timer app which loads on the mac menu bar and uses a simple and speedy Natural Language interface. Type the time, hit Return, and go.
Breakdown #1
Productivity is the art of tracking what goes in, what comes out and what is measured. Measuring itself cannot be a task and Horo solves this easily and quickly by allowing users to start a timer to track with a project.
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Breakdown #2
Tracking is a chore and next comes analysis. Analysis if done well can help people to understand how time is spent. This is useful for our users to use it various context like billing or tracking productive hours and more.
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One meme for this week
Adios and we'll be back next week. See you then ๐