Justin Chen

Tom's recent post really resonated with me, and I wanted to share my thoughts. 📣 In 2024, design shouldn't be a nice to have. Design is a crucial element in creating successful products and businesses. 📣 As a designer, my goal is simple: to add value. I focus on solving user problems while aligning with business objectives. It's about creating experiences that work for everyone - users and companies alike. 🔥 If you see design as a strategic asset, I'd love to connect. Let's explore how we can turn good design into great results. 🔥

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PART I I'm curious how other UX/ Product designers feel about the flow of the new Apple California drivers license app? It has to be usable to millions of people, a huge spectrum of ages and varying tech skills. #AppleWallet #CaliforniaDMV #DigitalID #MobileDriversLicense #ApplePay #PrivacyAndSecurity #TechInnovation #DigitalTransformation #AppleWatch #iPhone16 #DMVPilotProgram #MobileID #SecureIdentity #InnovationInTech #GovTech #SmartWallet #FutureOfIdentity #TechNews #DigitalPrivacy #AppleUpdates https://lnkd.in/g_buWapY

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🎨 Color is hard. As our team leverages variables to apply themes across a design system, things break. Maintaining accessible color contrast across multiple components with various states is a beast of task. - Brand colors can vary from light to dark affecting foreground contrast. - State changes across various components require independent contrast checks for foreground text. - Yellow. (Do I need to say more? Whether its a brand or system color, yellow and orange demand special attention) 🌈 Color for brand designers working with product teams by Katie Cooper I dig everything Katie Cooper writes about color for design systems. The approach outlined offers a great perspective on how to evaluate brand color viability. It includes considerations for secondary colors and color ramps as you develop proper contrast ratios. https://lnkd.in/gna4CGCV 💛 The dark yellow problem by Lodestar Design via UX Collective I know a lot of folks have touched on this, but I like how succinctly this writeup spells out the problems when designing with yellow while trying to maintain some form or brand consistency. Mustard anyone? https://lnkd.in/gsA4FZgQ 👏 Color in design systems by Nathan Curtis A classic write up on color in design systems and considerations for theming. Big takeaways for our team included limiting how themes cascade through various components like links and buttons, as well as ensuring any “changes” to brand colors to meet the needs of the UI get approval first. If you haven’t read everything by Nathan on Medium on design systems you’re missing out! https://lnkd.in/gYXVCY2e ✨ So grateful for all the resources out there and hope some of this can be useful to your team. From our research, the team has established a few best practices: - Start by auditing color contrast options across all brand colors through color ramps and component states - Ensure a consistent lightness ramp across all steps of each color in the palette to help with predictable contrast - Pay special attention to your yellows to balance brand consistency with accessibility - Limit how brand colors cascade into critical elements such as forms, buttons and links to ensure usability - Continue to use plugins and manual review to check color contrast ratios across the system, components and patterns as you go #ui #design #designsystems #color #branding #theming #accessibility

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Working on freshmind.ai, I keep catching myself obsessing over product details. Gotta keep reminding myself: the slickest AI tool isn't worth 💩 without solid marketing/distribution. Time to shift focus and get this in front of more eyeballs.

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I cannot predict the future, but I do think we're going to see more designers as founders. In 2017 I co-published a medium article with Yini Nie, Shiv Kehr, and vanessa slavich on 3 reasons why designers make great founders (https://lnkd.in/eXT_USpr). The key takeaway here is that designers can solve business and user problems through a human centered design process and actually visualize and work towards a future reality by creating prototypes. Designers can literally show you what the future will look like. Since a picture speaks a thousand words, this is an incredibly compelling leadership tool. While personally I've had lots of ideas of products that should exist and the skill set to prototype and test an idea, I lack the technical skill set to code an MVP. Since it's launch, Chat GPT has accelerated work flows for developers, making debugging and getting started so much easier, but a core developer skill set is still required. There's still a leap going from designs to html. At #config2024 I learned about several Figma to code plug ins that take your designs and creates a working prototype in code, such as the aptly named 'Figma to code' plug in, Anima, and Locofy.ai (https://www.locofy.ai/). While I'm sure developers will still be needed for the fine grain detail, tools like these are going to democratize development. I can't wait to get started with tools like this in my day to day work and side projects and I'm excited to see the next wave of designers slash founders. #LinkedInDesign #LinkedInLife #LinkedinAtConfig

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