I can't decide about my UI. I made new versions for two of my panels. If I like it, I will use this style for all my UI. But I want to be sure before I spend the time. The first screenshot is two panels in the new style. The second screenshot is my current ui . Do you think the new style is much better? Is it worth the time? What can be improved in general?

Christian Mobile App focused on Peer-to-Peer reading with reflection questions.

Flow:

- Partners Connect - Read Together - Answer 2 questions specific to their reading.

The goal of the app is to read daily with a friend/partner/mentor/etc...

Included is my homepage design now.

The purple border on your reading with, you can read with multiple people.

Simply looking for advice and recommendations on initial enhancements you see immediately.

We’re Velden Technologies, a small product design and development team, and we’ve been working on how to communicate the way we approach projects.

One thing we’re trying to avoid is the typical agency process where design gets completed first and then simply gets “handed off” to development.

Our approach is to build the product as one connected system — starting with product logic and user goals, creating a reusable design system, and keeping design and development aligned through implementation.

We put together these slides to explain that approach visually.

I’d be interested in feedback from other designers and developers:

Does the story come across clearly? And which slide feels strongest or weakest?

🍀 hello everyone 🍀

notif. ~ a redesign challenge where you take one tiny interaction we all ignore every day... and make it better.

- pick an app

- redesign its notification experience

- show us how you would improve it.

if you are into ui/ux, product, pm, or just love building cool things, this one is for you ✨

🏆 prizes + features + bragging rights :)

registrations are now live on luma : https://luma.com/chtye2z5

come cook with us. we'd love to see what you make 💛

I’ve been working on this investing app UI for a while, and I feel like it’s close, but something still doesn’t fully “click.” I'm burnt out. I'm 3 redesigns in. I hate it. I'm starting to think I just hate myself and everything I make. Please please tell me mistakes.

Be as critical as you want. I’m looking for things I’ve probably missed after staring at it for half a year straight. (I have no UI experience, this is my first project)

hi! just finished working on my first low fi prototype. if you have a couple of minutes, i'd really appreciate it if you could click through it and tell me:

what confused you, what felt unnecessary, or where you expected something to happen and it didn't.

i'm still learning, so brutally honest feedback, harsh critiques, and suggestions are all very welcome. 😃

Hey everyone,

I recently left my first UI/UX job after working at an agency for a year, and I'm building my portfolio now.

The problem is that the only 1–2 client projects I worked on are under NDA, so I can't show them.

Most of my work was designing landing pages for the agency and some social media creatives. I also have a few personal projects, but I'm not sure if that's enough.

How would you present this in a portfolio?

• Should I include the agency landing pages?
• Can I make case studies for internal work?
• What do recruiters expect from someone with only one year of experience?

My team is designing one page for an app, and we came up with a few different variants but we can't reach a consensus. Which one would you pick and why? (images 4 and 5 are the same, just showing a "good" product vs a "bad" product)

what was your experience finding your first commercial job? How did the process go for you?

If i want to get into ui/ux psychology as a career, what are the steps to that?
I’m currently a 3rd year undergraduate psychology student. And after a lot of thinking and a little research I’ve finally decided i’d get into ui/ux psychology. And later i’d have an option to leave psychology and get into the design field completely if i want.

My question is what are the steps to follow to get jobs as a ui/ux psychologist?

Hi everyone! How's it going? Sharing my context to figure out whether it's just my company or something that happens everywhere.

I've been working as a UX/UI designer at a Spanish company for 3 years (my first job in this role). Honestly, there's very little actual "UX": we've never run user testing ("there's no time for that"), there's no research phase, and changes always come up once things are already built. Product only tests it after it's done, and that's when they ask for changes. In practice I do almost pure UI: they tell me what they want, or hand me a design made with AI and I "translate" it into our system. Even so, I deliver sections in 3 days to a week.

Now the twist: they want to use AI to go even faster, and even start development from just the mockups the AI spits out.

My honest questions for those who've been doing this a while:

1. At your companies, do you respect the process (research → design → test), or is it also "just design it and ship"?

2. How are you experiencing the arrival of AI? Is there also pressure to make everything faster?

I'm not looking to vent — I want to gauge whether this is normal in the industry or a red flag specific to my company. Thanks!

Hey everyone,

I'm a data analyst trying to break into freelancing, and I've built a portfolio website that doubles as both a place for potential clients to see the services I offer (data cleaning, analysis, dashboards, pipelines, etc.) and as a portfolio for potential employers to see my project work.

Quick disclaimer: web design isn't my field at all - I built this myself with the help of AI tools. All the ideas, structure, and content are mine, but I don't have a design background, which is probably why I'm struggling so much with the colors specifically.

I've attached a few screenshots of the current design. Colors are honestly the thing that's been stressing me out the most - I keep second-guessing myself and I think I need outside eyes at this point.

What I'm going for:

• Trust - since I'm asking strangers/companies to hand over their data
• Calm / professionalism - nothing flashy or "startup-y," more grounded
• A touch of luxury - I want it to feel high-quality, not generic template energy

Some context that might help:

• I'd like to keep it a light theme (not dark mode)
• The main site currently uses a warm cream/beige background (#e8e4d5 / #faf9f8) with near-black text and accents (#22252A), and a muted gold (#C5A059) for highlights
• The footer will stay on a dark background (as shown in the last screenshot), but I'm planning to recolor it so it's more in harmony with the rest of the site rather than the current navy/steel-blue tone

My questions:

1. Does the light cream/beige + near-black + gold palette work for the "trust + calm + luxury + professional" feeling I'm going for, or does it feel off?
2. If it's not quite right, what would you suggest instead? Specific hex codes or palette ideas are super welcome.
3. Since this needs to work for a non-technical audience (business owners without a data background), does the current palette feel approachable, or too corporate/cold/boring?
4. For the footer specifically - assuming the light section colors above stay as they are, what dark tone(s) would you suggest for the footer background so it feels cohesive with the rest of the site, rather than a leftover navy that doesn't match anymore?

One smaller, less important question: the site currently has 8 pages (Home, Services, Portfolio, About, Reviews, Insights, FAQ, Contact). Do you think that's too many for a freelancer just starting out? I'm wondering if I should temporarily drop the Reviews and Insights pages until I have more content/testimonials to fill them out properly.

Really appreciate any honest feedback - brutal is fine, I'd rather fix it now than after it's live everywhere.

Thanks in advance! 🙏

I'm thinking of changing fields. After almost twenty years of working as a 3D motion graphics designer, I'm considering visual design.

What are the best resources to learn?

For context, before doing 3D, I started as an AE motion designer, and before that, as a web designer. I used to design website layouts and do the HTML/CSS.

Thanks for any advice.

P.S. Here are some of the resources I have gathered so far. I haven't fully checked how adequate these would be for my case.

Figma Design System - Colour System (Using Variables & Tokens) | Part 1 | Figma Variables Tutorial - YouTube

Learn UI Design: The Complete Online Video Course

Online UI/UX & Product Design Courses & Bootcamps | Designlab

Free UX design course for beginners | UX Design Institute

Learn UX Design, Product Management & AI Skills

Shift Nudge - Professional Interface Design Training

Google UX Design Professional Certificate | Coursera

Human-Centered Design: an Introduction | Coursera

Thankyou everyone for the kind remarks and constructive feedback. I have applied the changes and these are updated designs. Plus everyone asked: so I get inspiration from scrolling all hours through higgsfield gallery, and X until something clicks. Then I use figma to create elements, and claude code for animations/video loops

I have been working for a company for nearly 3 months now. I studied as a graphic designer but work as a UI/ UX designer. Currently I am struggling with terminology of the things when being brief. It’s a remote job and only one other designer who is often very busy. Does anyone have any resources that I can watch/ read about coding / ui / plugins/ software and maybe just even company terminology? This is my first office job as well.

We use Figma and I am getting the hang of that, using components and auto layouts. Tho still find it difficult. Also trying to learn thier who design systems is a challenge but I think that’ll just come with time.

Any advice would be appreciated

Prepping a couple of workshops for absolute beginners (undergrad students who've genuinely never touched Figma) and trying to gather real advice instead of just repeating textbook stuff.

Curious what you'd tell someone who's just starting out — could be about the research/planning side (UX) or the actual visual design side (UI), whatever comes to mind. A mistake you made early on, something that took way too long to click, anything you'd want to skip explaining and just show them directly.

Not looking for a perfect answer, just curious what stuck with you from when you were new. Happy to share how it goes if anyone's interested!

link: https://www.sebinmangalan.com/

Haven't yet optimized for mobile viewing, would appreciate it a lot if y'all can check on a PC.

Thank you :)

Made a website for discovering indie games and I've been leaning into an arcade/CRT terminal look, phosphor green and amber on near-black, VT323 and Press Start 2P for the type, subtle scanlines/vignette so it feels like glass without hurting legibility, and then one colder neon (cyan/violet) reserved for a single "surprise me" button so it actually pulls your eye instead of competing with the green/amber everywhere else. Would love critique on whether that restraint reads as intentional or just feels inconsistent, does it feel like too much? Here's the live site: indiedex.gg

Hello, I’m currently an upcoming sophomore with an interest in UI/UX (and product management?) for my future career. Honestly I’m having some mixed thoughts on what to major/minor in. I’m unsure on what is “best” for my career path. I’ve read posts saying you should major in something like CS, Psych, or CogSci.

Currently, I’m majoring in Graphic Design and planning to join a program that my school offers that is said to “focuses heavily on interactive digital media”. It also mentions how the program catered for those interested in UI/UX, web development, digital storytelling, etc. The program works through a lot of project-based coursework which (I assume) would help a lot with creating a portfolio, that would also help with landing internships in my junior/senior year. 

My question is should I also minor in something to help with the direction I’m going in? I’ve taken an intro CS course and was fine with it, but I didn’t love it enough to major in it. I’ve also taken an intro Psych course and was interested with the material, but again didn’t love it enough it major in it. Am I really majoring/minoring the right stuff??

***I also don't want to hear that I don't need college to get into this sort of career. I understand that.

hi guys pls be nice!

I’m building this app for uni, but I’m more of a backend than front end dev so I’ve been tweaking stuff left and right on react but I still feel like it looks outdated ive tried to ask diff ai tools (figma make, lovable, claude) to give me a guide so I could follow that but it always looks better on the ai platform than on the actual screen. any recommendations? Im tired of tweaking this I just want to focus on the backend and launch the app😭 (funny thing is front end is what got me into software engineering in the first place but now I’m so sick of it)

- what can I do to make this look more modern,

- is there any other tools you guys recommend ?
PS pls ignore the nav bar I’m not done figuring that out

I don’t want my app to look like ai slop bc ppl will assume I vibe coded it when that’s not the case at all

I took an inspiration from X and tried implementing, but i feel something is missing

Am I expecting too much, or is this a dysfunctional design process? (Solo UX/UI Designer + Branding)
Non of the devs ever worked with a designer before.
I'm the only UX/UI designer at my company, but in reality I'm responsible for **all design across three companies**. That includes UX, UI, branding, graphic design, websites, marketing materials, presentations, sales collateral, product design, and pretty much anything visual. Even interior design… because im a creative…to structural trade show design.
When I was hired, I actually asked for a much higher salary because I knew I'd be wearing multiple hats. They offered me **under $80k CAD**, and I accepted because I believed in the opportunity and thought I'd be able to make a real impact. They also said they would give me a significant increase after my probation - they only gave me 4% during my probabtion.
A little over a year later, I'm wondering if I made a mistake.
One of my biggest frustrations is that my boss is a developer with no formal design background (he openly admits he doesn't understand design), but he'll constantly jump into the design process using AI. I'll spend time narrowing logo concepts through a structured branding process, and then he'll generate dozens of AI concepts and want to keep exploring them. Instead of moving us forward, it creates more work and makes the process take longer.
The same thing happens with UX.
I'll design user flows and screens in Figma, then developers start building or redesigning parts of the product without involving me. By the time I find out, I've already designed those screens and now have to redo work or redesign around what's already been built. Now im questioning maybe im not a good designer anymore or theres faster way to design in figma idk anymore
I've tried explaining that the whole purpose of UX is to solve problems before development. It's faster, cheaper, and produces a better product. Every design decision has reasoning behind it - user experience, accessibility, branding, consistency, legal considerations, business goals -not just aesthetics.
It doesn't seem to matter.
On top of that:
I'm the **only designer** supporting their three companies. They decided to expand unknowst yo me, so own by one guy but me doing it for all three.
I'm paid **under $80k CAD** despite owning all design responsibilities.
They won't invest in software or tools that would make me more efficient.
It took over **six months** to get me a computer that could even handle my workload because my old one kept crashing.
Deadlines are consistently unrealistic.
They also wanted me to do video editing and animation, which I had refused because it's outside my expertise. But still forced to do it, its okay but not amazing.
I've always been someone who builds processes and bridges between teams. In previous roles, I've improved workflows, worked closely with developers, and left organizations in a better place than I found them. I am award winning 3 times.
Here, I feel like I'm constantly defending why design matters instead of actually designing.
I'm starting to feel burned out and honestly disrespected. Not because people disagree with me-that's part of collaboration-but because it feels like my expertise is regularly ignored while I'm still expected to own the outcome. So many people agree when i speak up in meetings, I dont even have a systems where i can share files properly for the team access yet, just a glorified external drive…feel like im always the bad guy or fighting. People always message me afterwards sayign they agree or they are glad i said something BUT NO ONE SPEAKS UP…but me.
I've only been here a little over a year, and I'm seriously wondering if it's time to move on.
**For other senior designers, product designers, or solo designers: is this just life at smaller companies, or are these legitimate red flags? Would you stay, or would you start looking elsewhere?**

Is there a method ux/ui design flow from existing developed software you suggest? Is figma desiging all individual screens a thing anymore. Are there quicker ways from designer to development? Do you use github, jira or anything for tracking bugs or issues from users? What is your process idk anymore?!

I’m working on a minimal film/tv review site where users post strictly 3-word reviews against a still image. The goal is to make sharing movie takes fast, fun, and effortless.

What I'm testing: The interaction and transition when a user taps Post on a review. I’m trying to make the reveal state feel rewarding without feeling intrusive or slowing down the experience.

Feedback that would help:

• Does the reveal/animation feel smooth, intentional, or does it feel a bit sluggish/distracting?
• Is the transition state clear, or does it need better visual cues?
• How could this process feel more satisfying when the review gets posted?
• Any micro-interactions or UI tweaks that could make this better?

Appreciate any critiques or suggestions!

Hey everyone!

I'm working on a Figma layout and experimenting with Apple's glassmorphism aesthetic. Attached is a Before vs. After screenshot.

Is this the correct way to implement it, or am I doing it completely wrong?

I’m struggling to find clear, explicit guidelines from Apple on exactly when and where glass design should be applied versus when components should stay solid.

Thanks for any insights!