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Welcome

EDITOR’S NOTE

FEATURED AUTHORS

WELCOME

You can add the most innovative functionality

and harness the most dynamic frameworks but

a site is nothing without a well-designed user

interface. Your latest project may have powerful,

efficient engineering under the hood but if the

dashboard is more Ford Model T than Tesla, you can’t

be surprised if users would rather take someone

else’s site for a drive.

Good user interface design is fundamental to

effective web development and yet it can be easy

to overlook. For that reason, we’ve dedicated this

issue to covering the guiding principles and latest

developments in UI. Kicking off our ultimate UI

design guide, we look at how you can get the best

out of elements like typography, colour palettes,

buttons and links and turn them into consistent,

reusable components. Then, as your projects and

interfaces grow, Nick Babich shows you how to build

an effective design system and inject increasing

precision into your design pipeline.

We also have lots more: we show how to apply

video textures to 3D objects, split a webcam feed

into RGB channels and design for watchOS.

Josh Russell, Editor

@JoshLRussell

DANIEL

SCHWARZ

Schwarz is a UX and UI designer, web
developer and maker who creates
content for brands like InVision,
UXPin and Adobe. Who better then
to show you how to master UI design
over on page 58?
w: https://uxtricks.design

NICK

BABICH

Babich is a UX designer and he runs

the user experience blog called UX

Planet. On page 66, he shows you

how to organise your design system,

like a digital Marie Kondo.

w: http://babich.biz

t: @101babich

BRETT

HARNED

As director of education at TeamGantt

and founder of the Digital PM Summit,

Harned is pretty much project

management royalty. He shows you

how you can get started managing

your first project on page 18.

w: brettharned.com

RICHARD

MATTKA

Mattka is an award-winning designer

and developer specialising in VFX.

On page 76, he shows you how you

can add video effects to 3D objects –

and even display 360-degree video.

w: richardmattka.com

t: @synergyseeker