

First, open up a new blank artboard, and select the Ellipse tool from the tool palette or by pressing L. Want to keep up with Morgane? Find her on Dribbble and Instagram.įind more Interviews stories on our blog Courtside.How to create the Google Chrome Logo in Adobe Illustrator. In the short term, I would like to find ways to do more illustration work, learn new skills, and continue to grow as a designer.įor the long term, I see myself doing something different-surely something that will involve craft and design but in a different domain. I have been a Visual Designer/UX Designer/Illustrator for the last few years, living in Paris, London, and San Francisco. Where do you hope your career takes you in the next 5-10 years? A good digital alternative would be Todoist. Stickies and written lists on a wall or on my old Mac display are my dirty secrets. For product design, and especially if you work remotely, try Figma. My current go-to tools for illustration are not numerous, I go from Adobe Illustrator to Procreate and back. View on Dribbble Favorite design tools or resources? Be prepared for critics-some will be hard to take but in the end, remember they will help improve your design and make you a better designer.

Put meaning into your work: Think about the real people that will use your designs (this goes for illustration too).Have side projects that nurture your creativity and love for design. Cultivate your curiosity: Be interested in something besides design.I tend to believe that being able to adapt and to reinvent your style will make you always needed somewhere. Find your style but be flexible with it: I see lots of creatives cultivating a unique style.If you like it enough, you’ll find design solutions for the hardest problems and it will be highly rewarding! Make sure design/creating is your passion: You will have to do your job every day, and it won’t always be fun.I’m not sure whether this advice is for everybody, but I do try to keep these things in mind as I go through my own design career: Advice for new product designers starting out in their careers The next day I could be heads down on a series of illustrations or designing a visual identity for a Google product. One morning I’ll be an artistic director on a photoshoot, the afternoon I’ll join a sprint and design some flows. Due to this kind of unique position at Google, my role changes from project to project. My current focus is on Google Lens a technology that uses your smartphone camera to detect objects, offer actions and information about them such as shopping, translate, copy/paste text, etc. One morning I'll be an artistic director on a photoshoot, the afternoon I’ll join a sprint and design some flows.
