elizabeth

guess the dupe: channel your inner miranda priestly Created with Figma

👀 guess the dupe: channel your inner miranda priestly and try to identify designer dupe. yes, i did manually find all these dupes myself!

made this in figma make over the weekend: harp-care-29087468.figma.site

some figma grid experiments from my students today~

trying to make a pink editor theme and it's a lot harder than i realized 😭

i love this synth created by my student dennis for prototyping with cursor~

a guide to navigating the saturated design advice internet for aspiring designers~

i've been working solo for 2 years now and here are some of the tips i have for managing my very unstructured work days:

✨ explored the art of collage with some of my art of visual design students today! everyone had a blast using the figma draw radial feature for the first time too~

Expressive Design: Google's UX Research - Google Design Google's research reveals how expressive design improves UX, usability, and evokes positive emotions in users

source: design.google/library/expr...

the new material 3 expressive design principles feel like a breath of fresh air! i especially love their new take on using a variety of shapes within interfaces.

less consistency, more expressiveness ✨.

my favorite thing about building my own courses is including way too many references to the devil wears prada 😇

4/ "uglier"

some context: i'm creating some exercises for my students to practice updating visual designs to look better! i probably won't use something this drastic, but it was fun to explore what agent thinks is ugly.

3/ "uglier"

2/ "can you make it more visually ugly?"

1/ the starting point

told cursor to make something "look ugly" and tbh it did a pretty good job. pls watch til i press "spin everything."

a little peek at how i got here in the thread:

👀 a tip for new product designers: one of the best ways to improve your product thinking skills is to imagine the conversations behind product launches.

let's take @figma sites for example. these are a series of questions, discussions, and debates I know the product team had~

my amtrak activity last weekend: organizing classical saxophone repertoire in a notion database 🤭

does anyone else take photos of placards at art museums and then never look at them ever again? 🫣 i'm thinking about making something that helps me look back at the little placards i found interesting.

Elizabeth Lin My name is Elizabeth and I'm a designer and educator who experiments with creative ways of learning and teaching design.

i always feel the need to throw in "swiss" mode to prove that i can follow the rules too 😇

you can play with it here: www.designisaparty.com/portfolio

recently, i made a mini website for an interview ✨. with cursor, it only took a few hours to make! i had way too much fun exploring chaotic mode~

prototyping with cursor is actually all powered by notion! i can visualize where all the students are and update course material all in one place 🥰

i love being able to customize the course experience myself without being constrained to specific tools.

loving @jitachi.bsky.social's fun little "add dog" feature for their prototyping with cursor project 🐶

omg i love this! the cursors page is so good

rip marquee

omg yessss

here's the link in case you want to look: www.neopets.com/help/html1.p...

thinking about how we all used to learn html and css with this guide 🥺

maybe some online learning tools are too complicated now~

lessons from teaching cursor a peek at how and why i teach cursor

✨ i wrote a little bit about why and how i'm teaching
cursor on my blog! and yes, this is a real message that a student sent me yesterday 🥰

www.designisaparty.com/blog/lessons...

a little peek at the custom course website i built powered by notion 🥰

Prototyping with Cursor A self-paced online course taught by Elizabeth Lin

sign up: www.designisaparty.com/prototyping