Stories—the Design Blog by Dribbble

Mar 1, 2019

Advice on hiring and retaining the right designers for your agency

Tilted Chair Co-founder and Creative Lead Jameson Rodriguez shares 5 solid tips on hiring designers—from attracting the right people, screening for culture, and how to retain your new hire.

Feb 28, 2019

Product Designer Valentin Salmon on workspaces, productivity, and passion

Valentin Salmon is a French Product Designer currently working full-time in Montpellier at a design agency called Évolt. Learn how he landed in the field of design and hear how his different work environments fuel different ways of being productive.

Feb 27, 2019

Jonathan Ball's Lettering Process — A Tutorial

Ever wonder how designer Jonathan Ball creates his amazing lettering Shots? Well, you’re in luck—today he’s sharing a step-by-step lettering process of a special piece he made for all of the creators out there.

Feb 26, 2019

9 Collage artists to follow on Dribbble

We’re showcasing the work of 9 incredible designers who are killing it with their collage work.

Feb 25, 2019

Tips for creating web animations from Readymag's Product Designer Stas Aki

Our friends at Readymag are helping designers build beautiful custom websites with their intuitive web publishing tool. Product Designer at Readymag, Stas Aki, shares insight on the value of incorporating animations in your web designs and provides some tips on how you can get started.

Feb 22, 2019

What are Design Systems?

What are Design Systems, what makes them effective, and are they really worth investing in? Five modern design teams share insight on their own Design System and explain how they’ve been beneficial for their team and workflows.

Feb 21, 2019

Design Hiring: Standardizing your team’s criteria for evaluating design candidates

Cap Watkins, former VP of Design at BuzzFeed and founder of Practical Works  shares his actionable strategies to get your team on the same page before interviewing design candidates.

Feb 21, 2019

Design student Gabrielle Widjaja on life in art school, diversifying workspaces, and staying balanced

Gabrielle Widjaja is currently completing her last semester at the Rhode Island School of Design. She takes us through a typical day in art school, shares her varying workspaces, and explains why there’s always room for a work-life balance.

Feb 20, 2019

Veerle Pieters shares the full redesign process for her blog

Why is it so hard as designers to design things for ourselves? Veerle Pieters knows the struggle very well but that hasn’t stopped her from redesigning her blog for the 4th time now! In this post, she very candidly shares her full redesign process and reminds us that even the ideas you scrap are still valuable in the end.

Feb 19, 2019

Enter the Sticker Mule Playoff and get 10 free custom coasters

Our friends at Sticker Mule just launched something new… coasters! They’re celebrating with another awesome Playoff. The best part? Everyone gets to try them out for free.

Feb 19, 2019

Dribbble Interview: Designer Nicola Broderick starts each day with positive vibes and a scooter ride

In a new video interview, we chat with San Francisco-based designer Nicola Broderick. Formerly at Gamut, Nicola has just opened her own business, Camino Studio. She shares what she’s working on, who inspires her, and how Dribbble has made an impact on her career.

Feb 19, 2019

How to build a cohesive remote culture

Dribbble’s Head of People’s Ops Chloe Oddleifson shares insight on best practices and processes for promoting cohesiveness within a fully distributed team.

Feb 18, 2019

9 Iconography shots that inspire Yelp designer Scott Tusk

Scott Tusk is a designer and iconographer at Yelp. Check out the Dribbble shots that motivate him to push further as a designer.

Feb 15, 2019

7 Useful Chrome extensions for designers

Check out seven Google Chrome extensions hand-picked specifically with designers in mind. Use these extensions to speed up your workflow and improve your design work. You can never have too many Chrome extensions right?

Feb 15, 2019

What defines good UI Design?

Seven leading design teams share how they define good UI Design and what it looks like in their workflow.

Feb 14, 2019

Designers shared their animations skills in Adobe XD's latest Playoff

See what animation won the most recent Adobe XD Playoff and check out the rest of the amazing submissions received!

Feb 14, 2019

Designer and illustrator Ólga Davýdova on staying on top her freelance career

Hear from Russian designer, illustrator, and mother Ólga Davýdova on her essential tools, creative process, and self-made rules to make sure she stays ahead of the game in her freelance career.

Feb 13, 2019

16 Jam-packed Dribbble Meetups kicked off the new year in January

Typography as a storytelling medium, the value of user research, and how to implement illustrations into a website were only a few of the topics designers learned and shared on at the first Dribbble Meetups of 2019. See what else the community got up to this January.

Feb 13, 2019

8 great places to live as a designer

We did some research and rounded up a list of 8 cities that have been growing their community of designers by hiring freelance and full-time designers like crazy. Check out our list of 8 great places to live as a designer.

Feb 12, 2019