UI/UX Designer from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Category: Personal Experience

Every designer has questions about paying Adobe Creative Cloud (CC) Tax or paying for individual third-party design apps.

Today, I used Adobe XD for the whole day. I felt it was competitive to use the Sketch app on Mac.

I have avoided using Adobe XD all these years because Adobe Subscription Tax usually costs me INR 5,000/—here in India. But I loved Sketch App’s payment model, which is almost INR 5,000/year. Then, you can renew your subscription or use it without updates as long as you want.

I loved Adobe XD’s compatibility and integration with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. It is really smooth and well done. Adobe XD’s prototype tool is smooth.
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January 9, 2021

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Mandar Apte

Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe Systems Incorporated, Art And Design, Personal Experience, User Experience Design
Best Design Advice that I have ever received.

The best advice I ever received about designing logos and symbols is to use humanistic elements/curves/lines and avoid mechanical drawings. The computer can handle mechanical drawings.

This advice was given to me by Shirbhavikar sir and Pawar sir when I was doing my BFA in Applied Arts at Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art.

It seems I don’t totally follow this advice in my drawings/designs and illustrations. Even after four years of graduation, when I met Mahendra Patel sir at his SID office, he told me the same.
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January 9, 2021

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Mandar Apte

Art And Design, Graphic Design, Personal Experience, Typography, User Experience Design, Web Design
User Privacy & Data Protection Standards in new Apple iPhone, iPad and Mac Operating Systems

I had been planning for a long time but never implemented Google Analytics for my Apple iOS Apps to get accurate data about my app usage. I thought it was more work to implement analytics in the app with a framework using cocoa-pods, which would, in a way, slow down my app performance.

But with the news that Apple is taking privacy and data collection seriously, with online ads for Safari Browser on Mac and system-wide privacy settings on Apple iOS 14 for iPhone, I am happy that I never implemented a third-party analytics framework or added an ad network to generate revenue from my apps. My apps are already paid, and I don’t want to mess up user experience with impromptu in-app advertisements.
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January 9, 2021

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Mandar Apte

Apple, Apple iOS, Apple iPadOS, Apple macOS, Personal Experience
Art Blog & Few Real Life Updates

Sorry for vary less amount of Art Blog Posts for at least last two months…

More than 20 Art Blog drafts are in process of publishing it live on this space… So wait for brilliant reading in future… 🙂

In reality I was vary busy in officially running & starting my own design consultancy business… Now I have my design studio under my name i.e. mandar apte studio
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May 5, 2011

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Mandar Apte

Personal Experience
Few Updates about my website

Really thinking of updating my website with new features. I am going to update my Art Portfolio page with showcasing more of my work & Design studies,

Design Services page with form that will allow people to hire me through it to design for them & Contact page with contact & feedback form so anybody can contact me with ease.

Any suggestions???

October 26, 2010

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Mandar Apte

Personal Experience
Hello WordPress!!!

After Searching & Learning a lot on WordPress.org & other websites I started building on WordPress fundamentals…

This is my Actual First Post in my Articles blog…!!!

I decided to express my thoughts here, on subjects related to art & design

Let’s see how my blogging goes…!!! I Hope it will be helpful for peoples…

July 14, 2010

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Mandar Apte

Open Source, Personal Experience, Reviews, WordPress

Category: Personal Experience

Every designer has questions about paying Adobe Creative Cloud (CC) Tax or paying for individual third-party design apps.

Best Design Advice that I have ever received.

User Privacy & Data Protection Standards in new Apple iPhone, iPad and Mac Operating Systems

Art Blog & Few Real Life Updates

Few Updates about my website

Hello WordPress!!!

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