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Latest weekly issue
Top design and frontend links from my weekly curation.
Highlights of the week ↘
Gridless design - Let’s think outside of the grid and allow other guidelines to provide a comprehensive layout. -
The current state of homepage UX - For this analysis we’ve summarized the 6,100+ Homepage usability performance scores. -
Product design ↘
The elements of product design - A model explaining product design as a stack of decisions built on top of a stack of knowledge. -
WTF is a product designer? - It seems like every week I see a conversation on Twitter defining what design is or isn’t. -
Design systems don't kill creativity - Digital design education often focuses on processes, technologies, and tools, but students are left to learn design fundamentals independently, and many choose not to. -
Frustrating design patterns: Broken filters - Never freeze the UI on a single input, provide text input fallback and never auto-scroll users on a single input. -
Design engineering ↘
Growing (and shrinking) pains: Holistic spacing and visual density - How to fix a broken spacing system. -
How to get a pixel-perfect, linearly scaled UI - Dynamically scaling CSS values based on the viewport width is hardly a new topic. -
Inspecting sizes - I’ve often had a designer, looking over a site I’m developing, say something like "Can you move that five pixels to the left?". -
CSS Gap - Safari now supports the gap property for flex layout in CSS. -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
How to make your home and workspace fuel your creativity - Insights on the process of finding and reconfiguring our homes and workspaces to inspire our artistic lives. -
Microsoft’s new emojis - Why we refreshed our 1800+ emoji to support the new landscape of work. -
Last but not least ↘
The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday - I set myself a simple rule: I shall write some code everyday before or after work. -