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Design Lead @ Mimo & Creator of GriddyIcons | Sharing tips, insights, tools, and resources for growth-minded product designers | Let’s grow together!

It makes me sad to see so many designers out there struggling with visual design. 🥲 Yes, the form shouldn't go above function, but how the product looks significantly influences how we perceive the product itself. That's why design-led companies are winning. Just getting the basics right can improve the visuals significantly.  Learning the principles of visual hierarchy, typography, and layout will take you a long way. As a hiring manager, even when hiring a UX designer role, a nice-looking portfolio will give you an advantage over the others. Act accordingly. 

Gamze Bozkurt

Enterprise UX | Specialist in Workflow Management & Process Optimization

5mo

Do you have any suggested courses?

Rajeev Subramanian

UX/Product Leader | Innovating in the Complex, Regulated Industries | Career Coach | Adjunct Faculty

5mo

I would even take it a step further and suggest to my fellow UX researchers or others who may not be as "visually inclined" that this can be achieved with the number of templates that are out there. The bar has lowered in terms of the difficulty of achieving a decently polished portfolio. Good visual design creates better comprehension and communicates your value better, faster, and more easily.

100%. A sloppy, ugly design portfolio is a turnoff.

John Peele

Lead Product Designer - Design systems at MuleSoft/Salesforce

5mo

This. Thank you Filip for continuing to shine a light on craft, style, taste and how visual design is not only good for product design but critical to its success. Our industry has over-indexed on UX, research, data, etc (all very very important) at the expense of poorly executed visuals. The way something looks will ALWAYS be experienced before the way it works.

Hassan Ali

Helping startups and businesses thrive with strategically targeted designs | Product Designer | UI/UX Designer | Website Designer

5mo

We often preach visual design lies in the last levels of the ladder, but when it comes to reality, it is what becomes a deal breaker many times. Filip Greš

⚡️David Vobecký

UX/UI Designer @ Somewhere maybe | davidvobecky.com

5mo

I was surprised to find that many senior UX designers don't really know the basics of UI design, particularly when it comes to aesthetics. 😅

Joelle Phua

Product Designer | Content Creator | Crafting compelling design experiences & social media content for impactful brands

5mo

So many fav products are well crafted with so much love, take Linear Notion Dovetail for example!

Darshan Suthar

Crafting B2B & SaaS experience as a design partner

5mo

True, if you can't present well you're not a designer in the first place :D

Christopher Nguyen

I help UX designers go from Fuzziness to Focused, now Freedom

5mo

Looks matter! Good design isn't just about function, it's about making a great impression.

Reid Slaughter

Senior Product Designer | Specializing in User Experience and Product Design | Figma | Startups | Cursor | B2B • SaaS • Enterpise • AI

5mo

Is it that the visual design is poor or are people just making minor mistakes here or there or somewhere in between?

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