Why is the world losing color?

Highlights of the week ↘

Why is the world losing color? - The rise of chromophobia. - The Culturist

Design for the AI age - We need to move beyond the generic chat format and reconsider what users truly require for their specific workflows. - Karri Saarinen

Product design, UX/UI and PM ↘

User education - Not every user will immediately understand every feature in your app, but making the most obvious and simple UX possible should be your primary goal. - Charlie Deets

Prototyping everything - On rough drafts, sacrificial concepts, and designing your way through uncertainty. - Carly Ayres

Strategy is compressing - New tooling changes where strategy is important. - Carly Ayres

Design engineering ↘

Item Flow: A new unified concept for layout - CSS Grid and Flexbox brought incredible layout tools to the web, but they don’t yet do everything a designer might want. - Jen Simmons, Saron Yitbarek, Elika Etemad, Brandon Stewart

Expanding CSS shadow effects - Shadows in CSS can be multi-directional, layered, and are animate-able. - Preethi Sam

The systemic failure of implementing CSS principles - Before CSS came along, HTML did not have a version specifically dedicated to styling. - Andrea Davanzo

Tools and resources ↘

AnimeJS 4.0 is here - All-in-one animation engine. - Julian Garnier

Inspiration and creativity ↘

The Process - Every day sketches, brainfarts and ideas flying around in my backpack and apartment. - Carl Hauser

Last but not least ↘

A few notes on problem solving - Remember that solving problems requires a mix of thinking and taking action. Don’t get stuck doing just one or the other. - Jeremy Mikkola