Issue #707: Good UX is not enough
Raycast for designers, Centering in CSS, Performance management, A solopreneur's guide to pricing yourself, The grug brained designer, and more.
Highlights of the week
- BrowserStack Figma plugin for accessible design-to-dev handoff - Scan Figma layouts for contrast, spacing, focus order and tap targets. Get AI suggestions for alt text. Generate dev-ready notes and code for faster handoff. - BrowserStack sponsored
- Why “Good UX” isn't enough - Lessons from the internal combustion engine. - Jon Daiello
- A solopreneur's guide to pricing yourself - A decade-long journey from free work to premium advisory rates. - Elena Verna
Read all week, picked once. The best design links — every Tuesday.
Product design, UX/UI and PM
- “Data-driven” is dead - How the industry has shaped me to embrace data-driven design. - Takuma Kakehi
- Respectful performance management - Performance management is hard, no matter what side you're on. - Ami Vora
Design engineering
- Another article about centering in CSS - The tired old meme that centering in CSS is “impossible” has never been so irrelevant. - Andy Bell
- Why I'm writing pure HTML and CSS in 2025 - As software engineers, I think we have a tendency to over-engineer things. - Joel Dare
Artificial intelligence
- BYOM (Bring your own memory) - Can a work/life memory interpreter facilitate personal and work context? - David Hoang
Tools and resources
- Raycast for designers - Not all design happens in Figma. - Ed Orozco
- The grug brained designer - Grug brained developer help many dev. Now grug designer start same long walk. - Max Schoening
Inspiration and creativity
- Lettering artist to software founder - Jessica Hische on founding Studioworks. - Designer Fund, Ben Blumenrose
Last but not least
- The design industry created its own talent crisis - AI just made it worse. - Roger Wong