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Highlights of the week ↘
Design systems glossary - Design systems can be tricky if you don’t know what certain words mean. Here’s a quick primer to… -
Yes Sur: Behind the scenes of Sketch’s macOS makeover - We always want to put your designs front and center so they can shine — the last thing… -
Design ↘
10 usability heuristics for user interface design - Jakob Nielsen's 10 general principles for interaction design. -
Design to save people from themselves - there are a million more examples of software saving people from their own mistakes, insecurities, and ignorance –… -
Learning 3D as a product designer - 30 days of Blender. Staying at home has given me a lot of time to think about my… -
UX lessons from Big Sur - There are problems with Apple’s Big Sur, but let’s look at a few UX decisions they (mostly) got… -
UI Development ↘
What are design tokens? - Design tokens are just spicy variables, right? Wrong! They are an extremely versatile way of sharing design properties… -
Under-engineered responsive tables - I have written a bunch about responsive tables. Maybe too much. I keep trying to give developers the… -
Understanding flex-grow, flex-shrink, and flex-basis - When you apply a CSS property to an element, there’s lots of things going on under the hood.… -
Tools and resources ↘
SVGBox: API for web icons - SVGBox makes it dead-easy to include icons in your project. -
Figma: Creating and organizing Variants - Variants bring a range of new possibilities to components and scalable design systems. -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
Time tracking - Let’s go through a few things we learned about time tracking and how we make it less scary. -
Medium’s Design team book recommendations - A collection of some of the Medium Design team’s favorite reads. -
▶ How to run a design critique and get feedback on your work - Design crits are a great way to get feedback from your immediate design team on your work. -
Last but not least ↘
Relax into structure in your day - There’s something in many of us that resists structure — we want the freedom of not having to… -