UI cheat sheet: Spacing friendships

Tess Gadd
UX Collective
Published in
7 min readAug 19, 2021

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The easiest way for me, to see an interface designer’s skill is by how they use spacing in their design. Color, typography, imagery, etc., are usually given to you in a brand guide — but correctly using spacing is a skill. After a while it becomes second nature, but only after you have learned and used the basic rules.

In this cheat sheet, I explain a rather cheesy metaphor I tell to new joiners to…

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