Instagram Motion Identity System, Designing icons in Figma, and more ...

Highlights of the week ↘

Your private treasure trove of inspiration - Like a visual search engine for your own brain. All your bookmarks and inspiration in one private place, organized with AI. Works beautifully for mood boarding, too. - mymind SPONSORED

Design portfolio advice - It aches my heart every time we hire, seeing the lack of thinking designers put in building their portfolios. - Hardik Pandya

Instagram Motion Identity System - In collaboration with Instagram’s in-house brand design team, we created a flexible, balanced motion system, effective across both marketing and product. - Studio Dumbar

Product design, UX/UI and PM ↘

When and how to move from an assumption to a hypothesis - An assumption is a guess or thing that you work on with the belief that it’s true. A (good) hypothesis doesn’t come with any belief. It’s an idea or statement you use as a starting point to prove or disprove a position. - Andrew Duckworth

The goal of a “strategy” is to change our own team’s behavior - A strong strategy is of course a key foundation for everything we’re building as a company. - Ami Vora

Designing icons in Figma - We want to make sure that this article is interesting for those who are already familiar with the icon design field, but also accessible for those who are entering the unknown. - Streamline

Design engineering ↘

Why UI designers should understand Flexbox and CSS Grid - Or bye bye, rigid column grid layout. - Christine Vallaure

From atomic design to a global solution - I was recently a guest on the CodingCatDev podcast, where we covered a lot of ground around design systems, including the design system ecosystem, the idea of a Global Design System. - Brad Frost

CSS button styles you might not know - We can use all sorts of fancy CSS to style a button. I prefer using Flexbox layout for example. In this blog post I share a few lesser-known CSS styles. - David Bushell

My favourite animation trick: Exponential smoothing - There’s a certain simple animation thing that I’ve been using almost since I’ve ever started doing anything related to graphics. - Nikita Lisitsa

A formula for responsive font-size - This CSS is now part of most websites I make. - James Fisher

Tools and resources ↘

Storybook 8 - Next level testing, performance, and compatibility. - Michael Shilman

Inspiration and creativity ↘

From ink to pixel to ink - The iPad didn’t manage to kill books the same way smartphones didn’t manage to kill traditional photography. - Manuel Moreale

A collection of Design Engineers - Collecting people I know who work at the intersection of design and engineering, in an attempt to figure out what a design engineer is. - Maggie Appleton

Portfolio presentations and Design work - Portfolio presentations are an opportunity for designers to showcase their design process and problem-solving skills to potential employers, peer groups, and more. - Luke Wroblewski

40 years of the Mac at the Computer History Museum - Earlier this year, the original Macintosh celebrated its 40th birthday. - Arun Venkatesan

Last but not least ↘

The minestrone of talent - Join startups where there is high density of talent. - David Hoang