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Defining Your Basic Unit

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Now that we’ve made decisions around our fonts, colors, and general hierarchy principles, it’s time to do some actual design. Design always begins at the essence of your product. That means getting down to the bottom of whatever it is you’re trying to accomplish, and figuring out what pieces you need to put together to achieve that goal.

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Cabrera, J. (2017). Defining Your Basic Unit. In: Modular Design Frameworks. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1688-0_3

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