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Jimmy Chion

Jimmy Chion is a designer and developer. He has previously worked at The New York Times and IDEO, and holds two degrees from Stanford: Psychology and Mechanical Engineering.

@jimmmy · www.jimmychion.com

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Grainy Gradients

Browse through Dribbble or Behance, and you’ll find designers using a simple technique to add texture to an image: noise. Adding noise makes otherwise solid colors or smooth gradients, such as shadows, more realistic. But despite designers’ affinity for texture, …

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