Erik Kennedy
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Erik Kennedy
@erikdkennedy.bsky.social
Teaching UI design (in a practical way).
Props to James Cook for using common ingredients uncommonly well 🤩
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July 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
📏 XL SIZE: at size 84, this headline is massive. We see details in Georgia that aren't as familiar. It's a whole new font!

👌 NEGATIVE LETTER SPACING: fonts are designed for body text sizing. For headlines, subtract letter-spacing for a tighter, crisper feel.
July 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
And here's the short video version where I break down Liquid Glass in Figma step-by-step 😎
youtu.be/uJthLkf8X1A
How to Make Apple's Liquid Glass Effect In Figma
How to generate Apple’s liquid glass effect in Figma, step-by-step – including WHY we modify each property that we do.CONTENTS0:00 Intro0:49 Adding the Textu...
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June 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Here's a property-by-property visual breakdown of Liquid Glass in Figma, along with WHAT each property changes.
June 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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June 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
learnui.design – master the visual design of beautiful apps & websites

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The full-length online course on creating beautiful, high-converting landing pages. Includes videos, resources, and a student community.
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June 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
And if you HAVEN'T signed up, they're open for the next week for new enrollments. Ask me anything 😎

learnui.design
learnui.design/courses/lea...
learnui.design/courses/lan...
Landing Page Academy
The full-length online course on creating beautiful, high-converting landing pages. Includes videos, resources, and a student community.
learnui.design
May 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
These courses are my life's work. I am extraordinarily lucky to have been born in a moment where I could create and sell them. And if you've signed up, I hope they've been transformative for your design skills and confidence.
May 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
These 3 courses are SO MUCH of what I know about design. In total, they're 69 HOURS of videos about every aspect of digital design: aesthetics, usability, conversion-rate optimization, communication, etc.

And every moment of them is architected to be as practical, as clearly explained as possible.
May 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Fast forward to now. The course is Learn UI Design. Over 5,000 students have taken it, including from the most respected companies in tech – Stripe, Apple, Meta, etc.

I've added an additional 10 hours of video to it, re-recorded everything from scratch – and created two more courses on top of that.
May 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I just had to make it.

So that was the addendum to our San Diego babymoon.

In 2 and a half wild days, I outlined a 25-hour video course AND wrote a 4,000 word landing page for it.

(Then came 11 months of monk mode, planning and recording and editing)
May 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Anyhow, like an idiot, it took me 2 full YEARS to realize that if a MILLION people would read a design article, maybe some FRACTION of them would pay for a design course.
May 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
See, a few years prior, I'd posted some design articles on Medium. I tried to make them highly practical – and it worked! They went MEGA-viral. Like, millions of views, emails every few minutes, more inbound client requests than I could handle, etc. It was digital cocaine for three days straight.
May 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
My wife and I had just found out we were pregnant with our first kid. We had a nice babymoon to San Diego, and I stayed a few days extra to outline a design course I'd been noodling over for a while.
May 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
These tips are all in Learn UI Design, which opens for enrollment at midnight tonight 🥳
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May 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
☝️ Little-known design tip: if you're trying to balance a thicker element with a thinner element, make the thicker element a lower opacity 😉

The goal: get the icons and text feeling really nice *together*
May 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Icon consistency is a common UI mistake in meaty SAAS apps. At the very least, be consistent on:

🐄 Stroke weight thickness
🔘 Border radius
🪣 Fill vs stroke icons
May 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Alignment is critical. You want to buy as much neat/clean feel as you can with the few elements in a sidebar.
May 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM