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Latest weekly issue
Top design and frontend links from my weekly curation.
Highlights of the week ↘
Roboto Flex - Googles most popular font gets customizable with the launch of Roboto Flex. -
Everything new in Figma - Im completely blown away by the number of features the team shipped and the amount of thought put behind each one. -
Product design ↘
A product design process for the real world - Product designers have never had so many tools and techniques at our disposal to help us do our job. -
Novel user interface ideas are public goods - Since anyone can free-ride on the initial investment into interfaces, its hard for companies to justify spending much on R&D in this space. -
Onboarding a new leader onto your team - Many of the strongest leaders I know took 3-6 months to onboard successfully. And in some roles, I feel like I took years. -
Design engineering ↘
Building a Design System from scratch - A deep dive into my experience building my own design system that documents my process of defining tokens, creating efficient components, and shipping them as a package. -
Accessible color for design systems just got easier - Leonardo has evolved as both a design and engineering tool for creating accessible color palettes for design systems. -
Web typography gets colorful - The technology opens up an entirely new vein of typographic creativity. -
Tools and resources ↘
Markdoc: Markdown-based authoring framework - From personal blogs to massive documentation sites, Markdoc is a content authoring system that grows with you. -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
Mechanical watch - Interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works. -
Last but not least ↘
Notes on “Taste” - Taste is a word I've been hearing a lot more lately, and I think it's because we've broadened its application from the world of the aesthetic to the world of the practical. -