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If you are here on my new blog you should hear about mighty dribbble. If you dont know about dribbble - basiclly this article doesn`t make any sense for you and just check out this funny video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M660rjNCH0A :D

Effects vs designs

When i finally get on dribbble (it was about5 months ago) i was happy like a small child in the toy shop. Because there is just not bettter place for the designers on the net :) To be honest dribbble really really help me to get - feedback, jobs and even friends. Only thanks to the dribbble i`m now the lead UI/UX designer at Pinerly.com - startup from Silicon Valley, but its another story.

So dribbble is def great (best) place its part of my daily routine i just love it. But there is also "dark" side of the dribbble, bcs if you will be there little be longer you will note that fact the most popular things are things like the - clock widgets, weather things, buttons, blurry bckg and the things with lot of effects. I`m not saying its wrong i also made some of those funky things :) 

But just imagine you are workin on the great designs (for example complete social network) - very clean UX, lovely UI. But if you show in those 400x300 px just part of it you will not get enough likes even if its really kickass design. Why? because there is now glow, lights, shiny things - the design is workin like the one piece, but ppl will not see that bcs there are not going to even click on preview. True story. 

 

My personal tips

  • Use really nice preview, try to find really outstanding element! Like the button, dropdown menu etc.
  • Use picture instead of real pixels (dont like this sulution but its workin)
  • Have the "milion" of followers it works all the time - but its not easy you have to be design superhero to have them.

Would you like to have more tips from me? // http://dribbble.com/OtherPlanet

Skate by @Dembsky, thank you dude! :)

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