Issue #719: 5 habits of the worst designers
Dear young designer, Testing different designs, On creating success, Alternative chat UI layout, My CSS selector strategy, and more.
Highlights of the week
- Design quality depends on stable infrastructure - Cloudways manages deployment, scaling, and stability, ensuring your work shines. Get 50% off three months of hosting plus 50 free migrations now. - Cloudways sponsored
- The 5 habits of the worst designers - Avoid these mistakes and your career will improve. - Scott Berkun
- Dear young designer, Part II - Make your work something that might potentially outlast you. - Tobias van Schneider
Read all week, picked once. The best design links — every Tuesday.
Product design, UX/UI and PM
- Why I don’t test different designs at the same time - Testing two versions is almost always totally unnecessary. - Adam Silver
- An alternative chat UI layout - Chat is a pretty simple and widely understood interface pattern... so what's the problem? - Luke Wroblewski
Design engineering
- My CSS selector strategy - Writing good CSS is all about restraint. - Andy Clarke
- Reimagine the date picker - In 2025 if you need a date picker use the native HTML element. - David Bushell
- Programming principles for self taught front-end developers - Like many front-end developers, I don’t have a formal computer science background. - Kilian Valkhof
Tools and resources
- Figma just proved everyone (including me) wrong - Figma’s latest design system updates mark a turning point for design systems and a wake-up call for skeptics like me. - Josh Cusick
Inspiration and creativity
- Tahoe’s terrible icons - The B-sides - Jim Nielsen
Last but not least
- On creating success without comparing yourself to others - DJ, model, and actress Dylan Ali discusses how to handle your business every day, owning your authenticityn. - Dylan Ali, Rona Akbari