Issue #695: Material Design 3 Expressive
Style is the answer, Design without feedback, AI-first experiences, Organizing a design system, Layout with margin-trim, Color theory and more.
Highlights of the week
- Ycode AI: Start your website with AI - Build your website in seconds with AI, then take full control of design and content in Ycode. - Ycode promoted
- Start building with Material 3 Expressive - Material's latest evolution helps you make products even more engaging and easier to use. - Google Design
- Style is the answer to everything - Style is the answer to everything because it's the only thing that can't be taken away from you. - Tobias van Schneider
Read all week, picked once. The best design links — every Tuesday.
Product design, UX/UI and PM
- Design without feedback is theater - The building blocks of feedback loops are learn, design, build - in that order. - Pavel Samsonov
- Good design comes from looking, great design comes from looking away - Great design requires both looking and looking away - studying and ignoring, learning and forgetting, absorbing and creating. - Christopher Butler
- Emerging patterns in designing for AI-first experiences - There are a few emerging patterns in designing for AI-first experiences. Here are a few. - Jehad Affoneh
Design engineering
- Organizing a design system via folksonomy - Design systems are organized in an imperative, top-down, hierarchical way. - Eric Bailey
- Easier layout with margin-trim - The margin-trim property lets you tell a container to trim the margins off its children. - Jen Simmons
Tools and resources
- Pages CMS - The no-hassle CMS for static sites generators. - Ronan Berder
Inspiration and creativity
- Rethinking color theory - How to balance the emotional and rational to create powerful palettes. - Ruxandra Duru
Last but not least
- Products need soul but markets reward scale - Building a soulful product and building a company that wins in the public market are not the same thing. - Hardik Pandya