Simple design

Highlights of the week ↘

Simple design - I think the sad news is simple design is ultimately a limiting factor of a product’s growth. - Charlie Deets

10 powerful history facts designers must know - Fresh inspiration from the designers who came before you. - Scott Berkun

Product design, UX/UI and PM ↘

Portfolios: Prioritise pixels over presentations - Portfolios shouldn’t be X, Y, Z case studies, but explorations of your obsession over the details. - Luis Ouriach

How to stop people from skipping your onboarding - A breakdown of three common onboarding techniques, and how to stop people ignoring them. - Peter Ramsey

Button states: Communicate interaction - Minor visual changes help users distinguish between 5 different button states: enabled, disabled, hovered, focused, pressed. - Kelley Gordon

Design engineering ↘

Fixing Vercel’s landing page - Vercel’s landing page is cool, but it could be a lot better with this one little trick. - Tomi Kalmi

Design system documentation is essential - as long as it’s good - I think documentation is essential. Specifically, I think good documentation is essential. - PJ Onori

So, you want to give up CSS pre- and post-processors… - There was once upon a time when native CSS lacked many essential features, leaving developers to come up with all sorts of ways to make CSS easier to write over the years. - Zell Liew

Tools and resources ↘

How to get the most out of vibe coding - AI can’t yet one-shot an entire product - but with the rise of vibe coding, supercharged developers are getting close. - Tom Blomfield

Inspiration and creativity ↘

The creative power of constraints - Constraints act not as limitations but as catalysts for creativity. Examples from architecture, design, and art reveal the paradoxical relationship between boundaries and innovation. - Arun Venkatesan

Last but not least ↘

You can be a great designer and be completely unknown - Design greatness is not measured by the recognition of authorship, but in the creation of work so essential it becomes as inevitable as gravity, as unremarkable as air, and as vital as both. - Christopher Butler