Michelle The Creative 💎

How I get even more from the content I consume

Unconventional Design Tips For Non-Designers

The ABCs of Idea Generation

A GitHub repo of Obsidian code snippets that I use in my Obsidian vault.

How Learning Works

Cognitive Bias and the Design Process

The Best Ideas Are Rarely Logical

How I repurpose my content including the tools I use

My own public digital garden of notes, thoughts, and ideas.

Are You a Maker or a Taker?

Modals on Mobile: How to use them wisely

Manage your video game collection for FREE with these tracker templates.

Become a better designer by scrolling through Netflix

UX lessons I wish I had learned earlier

Video games teaching you about life? 🤷‍♀️

A character counter, character generator, and Lorem Ipsum generator.

How to make smarter design tradeoffs

Best books all creatives should read this year

Communication Tips For UX Designers

Scheduled creative time, here’s what I learned

Regular Reflection Can Help You Become More Productive

My entire template including code snippets

You Learn More Effectively By Practicing

10x Your Designer To Developer Comms

How A UI Designer Uses Todoist

Subscribe to these 7 design newsletters and you won’t be disappointed

6 Procrastination Triggers And How To Overcome Them

How to show code examples on a Jekyll website

Can A Rubik’s Cube Help With Your Focus?

Here’s what I do to set up a Pomodoro timer in Obsidian

Building A Consistent Writing Habit

How I Use Obsidian Daily Notes To 10x My Creator Workflow Every Day

How To Make Your Productivity Systems More Efficient

Learn about the things that cause you to procrastinate and get tips to overcome procrastination.

Why You Should Schedule Time For Creativity

Part four in a series of posts - A Comprehensive Walkthrough Of My Obsidian Setup.

Life Contexts - Cues To Differentiate Between Work And Home

Part three in a series of posts - A Comprehensive Walkthrough Of My Obsidian Setup.

How To Write Effective Error Messages

Part two in a series of posts - A Comprehensive Walkthrough Of My Obsidian Setup.

The Creator’s Philosophy - Create Once Use Many Times

Part one in a series of posts - A Comprehensive Walkthrough Of My Obsidian Setup.

9 Apps I Use Daily As A Creator

A table of contents is an invaluable component to have on longer blog posts. Learn how to add one to your Jekyll website.

Build A Landing Page In 7 Steps

In this post, I share the step-by-step process I used to create a highly effective landing page to promote my latest book.

6 Things Pokémon Cards Will Teach You About Design

What you can learn from Pokémon cards that will make you a better designer

Creative Constraints Are Good For You

The code snippet I use to add a social media share bar to my posts on my Jekyll website

I created a custom landing page to promote my eBook: Design Faster, Design Better

How To Improve The Usability Of Password Fields

The code snippet I use to add related posts to each of my posts.

10 Ways I Use Figma As A Creator.

Learn how a creator uses Figma to build content consistently (with examples)

4 Tactics To Promote Yourself As A Web Designer.

Learn from my mistakes and become a successful web designer

How to never run out of ideas as a designer.

Never be stuck for an original idea again with this system.

Be Consistent - That Is Your One Thing

I’ve gathered together every single tool and resource I’ve mentioned across all editions of my newsletter and created a Notion Database to store them all.

This book is about design + productivity, my two favorite things. In it, I share with you everything I’ve learned as a productive designer over the last 10 years. From design concepts to productivity tips and advice, you’ll learn everything you need to improve your designs and work more effectively.

A few lessons in form design, Coolors, CopyPalette, 2 design tips, a walkthrough of my Obsidian setup

In this comprehensive article I would like to share with you my current Obsidian setup. I’ll be going into detail on how my vault is structured, naming conventions, tags, templates.

Atomic Design, LottieFiles, GoodBrief, 2 Design Tips, A Simple But Effective Way To Learn Every Day

8 Examples of great mobile modals, Color Hunt, Kerntype, 2 design tips, 5 Ways For A UI Designer To Come Up With Ideas

Label your icons, Typescale, Unsplash, 2 design tips, UI design patterns - character limits

Character limits are used on text fields to indicate the maximum amount of characters that can be entered into that field. These components are important as they provide immediate feedback to the user when they fill in a form.

Context Switching: Why It’s So Hard to Avoid & How to Prevent It Anyway, Colors and Fonts, Open Color, 2 Design Tips, Establishing A Shut Down Routine For Maximum Clarity

Password fields are a necessity if you’re designing a login or sign-up form for your application. As common as these types of fields are, they can be frustrating to interact with when poorly designed.

User Intent Affects Filter Design, UI/UX Learning Resources, Random Color Cycler, 2 Design Tips, How To Never Be Bored Again

Why You Should Write, Remove BG, User Inyerface, 2 Design Tips, Design A Website From Scratch In 7 Steps

Designing an entire website can seem like a big challenge. You need to think about all the pages, the content on each page, how it’ll be designed, what colors to use; the list is pretty long.

Building a Creativity Inbox, Radix UI, Empty States, 2 UI/UX Design Tips, Mind Maps

Mind maps are a powerful tool for getting started with project planning, learning something new, or even making decisions.

Avoid The Urgency Trap With The Eisenhower Matrix, NNGroup, Design Principles, 2 UI/UX Design Tips

Here’s how I added a related posts section to articles on my Jekyll website.

The difference between note-taking and note-making, 98.css, extractCSS, 2 UI/UX Design Tips, Understanding The 30 Seconds Of Code Website

Feeling “bored” can result in a complete lack of motivation. You don’t have the drive to pick something from your list of chores. You can’t bring yourself to do anything except watch YouTube mindlessly.

The humanual, impossible checkbox, iPod.js, 2 UI/UX tips, understanding the Software Ideas landing page

Here’s how I implemented an affiliate disclaimer to specific posts or pages on my Jekyll website.

I created a free printable to manage how you schedule your Tweets.

Centered and full-justified text, Usability.gov, GetTerms, 2 UI/UX Tips, Understanding The Notion PM Landing Page

A shutdown routine is something you do at the end of your workday that tells your brain, I’m finished with work today.

Confirmation Bias, Carrd, A List Apart, 2 UI/UX Design Tips, Understanding The Game Thinking Landing Page

As a UI Designer, you are essentially paid for your ideas. They are your greatest source of value.

Mental Models For Search, Pomofocus, Frontend Mentor, 2 UI/UX Design Tips, Understanding the 100 Days of No Code landing page

I’ve been actively using Twitter since March 2021 so it’s really rewarding to see people value the content I share. I’ve been able to connect with some great people through Twitter which has been an excellent experience.

I was inspired by #ship30for30 where people post atomic or visual essays every day for 30 days.

I created this website to act as a central place for all of my work (aside from my personal website). I’m hoping it encourages me to create more things.

It’s easy to be bombarded by things you should work on or should do. Things from work, things in your life, things you read on social media.

This repo contains a boilerplate project for Jekyll with Tailwind CSS. After much work and frustration I eventually got this up and running 💪.

Design guidelines for complex apps, Twitter card validator, Wappalyzer, using testimonials, clean landing pages, understanding the NotionMetrics landing page.

We all need constraints to operate effectively. In the world of creators, creative constraints allow us to focus our energy and concentration in the right place.

6 Principles to make your ideas stick, Canva, Gradientify SVG Icons, better hero design, how Screenshot.Rocks works

Design User-Friendly Error Messages, CoolHue, Screenshot Rocks, Use Google Fonts, Review designs at different screen sizes, How CoolHue 2.0 Anticipates Its Audience’s Needs