Landing page best practices, onboarding, favorite Config talks & more
Sketching for UX Newsletter Issue #30 - my favorite design resources I discovered last month (April, 2025)
Hey dear subscriber 👋,
This issue is about
✏️ My new sketch: Landing page best practices
💎 10+1 design resources I loved the most in April
▶️ My favorite Config talks
✏️ Landing page best practices
My new UX Knowledge Piece Sketch is about “Landing page best practices - the rest of the page”. Here are the 3 previous sketch in this series: Hero section part 1, part 2, Footer design
Check out my sketch & detailed article here soon.
✏️ Favorite resources
While this is not a new discovery of mine, I highly recommend you to check out this newsletter: Open Doors by Florian Boelter (you can subscribe for free). “Here to make the design industry welcoming and accessible for everyone stepping into it.”
These are my favorite discoveries of April, 2025:
#1 Great resources about onboarding (3)
Writing the onboarding experience by
- “But sometimes an interface needs a little instruction. Enter: the product onboarding. A popular design approach that helps a product introduce itself.”- - “Let them discover and organically educate each other about advanced features. If you do decide to educate your users, try to do so in a highly targeted and non-blocking way.”
I studied the UX/UI of over 200 onboarding flows - here’s everything I learned by
- “What separates a winning onboarding flow from a failed one? And how can we design them better?”
#2 How I use generative AI in branding by Charlota Kolar Blunarova
“AI expedites the execution phase. That means I can explore more ideas, faster. I can dedicate more time to the initial strategic phase with my clients—clarifying what their brand is about, why it exists, and what message we aim to convey. It also unlocks more time for refinement.”
#3 The creative power of constraints by Arun Venkatesan
“Successful creative people don’t merely comply with externally imposed constraints, but transform them through reframing. They adopt constraints as personal challenges rather than external impositions.”
Related article: When constraints sparked creativity by Ian Batterbee
#4 Devouring Details - upcoming interaction design course by Rauno Freiberg
“Interaction design is fascinating. In response to input, millions of pixels on the screen animate 120 frames per second—all with deliberate authoring to pull off an elaborate magic trick to convince you that the interface is alive. But what are the invisible details that pull this off?” Free behind the scenes chapter
#5 When faces go virally wrong by
“A face is more than identity. It’s power, emotion, legacy. In the hands of artists, it inspires. In the hands of algorithms, it replicates. We must choose: will we design tools that honor human creativity — or harvest it silently? The next era of portraiture is being shaped right now.”
#6 Comic Sans and the art of imperfection by
”Comic Sans is intentionally designed with generous letter spacing and irregular shapes that make each character stand out. The result? It’s highly legible, even at small sizes and on low-resolution screens—exactly the kind we used in the ’90s.”
Related article: Introducing Kermit: A typeface for kids by Rob McKaughan
#7 The story of the Orange by
“One of my earliest mentors shared a story with me that has stayed with me ever since: As a Creative Director, he had a ritual. Every time he delivered a major pitch to a client he wore his special “orange shirt.” That shirt, he said, made him feel like the most creative, confident and joyful version of himself. It became his secret ingredient, a symbol of his best self.”
#8 The case against conversational interfaces by Julian Lehr
“Natural language is great for data transfer that requires high fidelity (or as a data storage mechanism for async communication), but whenever possible we switch to other modes of communication that are faster and more effortless. Speed and convenience always wins.
My favorite example of truly effortless communication is a memory I have of my grandparents. At the breakfast table, my grandmother never had to ask for the butter – my grandfather always seemed to pass it to her automatically, because after 50+ years of marriage he just sensed that she was about to ask for it. It was like they were communicating telepathically.
*That* is the type of relationship I want to have with my computer!”
#9 The People’s Graphic Design Archive
A crowd-sourced virtual archive of inclusive graphic design history.
#10 Perplexity brand guidelines
“Altogether, we always want our brand to feel powerfully consistent, but also deeply diverse and always growing. So use this guide as inspiration, and keep making cool, weird stuff.”
+1 SuprOrdinary Youtube channel by Devin Mathews
“As a kid, I dreamt of the amazing creative things I would make that would set the world a blaze. 30 years and 2 kids later, my creative impact feels more like lukewarm bath water rather than the fiery blaze I hoped for. I asked myself: is this it? Have I already made my best stuff? Deep down, I knew my most creative ideas were still in me, and if I kept waiting for the right opportunity, they might never see the light of day. So instead of dreaming of the extraordinary "somedays," I decided I was going to start with the ordinary everyday.”
Here is an interview with Devin, about the series, e.g. I love this advice: “If I could give anyone who feels this way some advice it would be: start from where you are at, with what you have, and leave regret for the indecisive.”
▶️My favorite Config 2025 talks
Beyond agents: AI as a creative partner with Joel Lewenstein
Building digital products as a company of one with Christine Vallaure de la Paz
Building in public with Figma: designers should be creators with Nolan Perkins
Reimagining the NFL app with Lauren Manning & Arjun Kalyanpur
Crafting quality that endures with Karri Saarinen, Co-founder & CEO, Linear
Writing is designing with Andy Welfle
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Krisztina
"In many cases, designing the footer is an afterthought"
This is gold. I pay A LOT of attention to the footer of the websites I visit and I like a good footer because is where you may find what is not that clear or exposed in the whole website eg. pricing, who actually is behind the product etc.
Awesome, intriguing and inspiring as usual. Once again, thank you for sharing Krisztina!