Ed Orozco

Ed Orozco

Ed Orozco

I'm a designer based in France. I blog regularly about UX, DesignOps, & Remote Work.

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Fighting cognitive noise

Noise makes it hard to get stuff done We need every bit of focus in order to produce great work. Yet we are surrounded by an army of distractions robbing us of our precious mental energy. From notifications to busy interfaces, it's never been harder to tune out the noise

Gmail shortcuts cheat sheet

You came here for the shortcuts so let's get to them. In the general view 1. Next email J or ↓ 2. Previous email K or ↑ 3. Select email X 4. Labels L 5. Delete selected email Shift # 6. Mark as Read Shift I 7. Mark as Spam Shift ! 8. Archive

Copying SVG logos from websites straight into Figma

Did you know you can grab any SVG from a website and drop it into Figma in all its vector glory?

Idea-to-action time (ITA)

Minimizing the time between ideas and action to get the most out of our creativity.

Designing blended tags in dark mode

Because of how displays work, things need higher saturation of color against light backgrounds and lower saturation against dark ones.

Clipboard managers are awesome

A clipboard manager it's an app that stores everything you copy so you're not limited to copying and pasting one thing at a time.

In-File UX Documentation

In-file, UX documentation is a layer of information that isn’t part of the design itself but helps everyone to understand it better.

Using your own components in Figjam

If you have a shared library of components in Figma and you'd like to use them in Figjam, these are the steps

The Best Product Design Resources

A list of resources to learn product design that I wish I had when I started out.

OpenAI wrote this article about Design Strategy

Thought I'd play around with OpenAI's Chat CPT and ask it to write a blog article about design strategy just for fun.