Issue #713: 7 practical animation tips
Color meets constraints, Decentralizing quality, The MVP car, Management values, Interfaces design themselves, The Coyier CSS starter, and more.
Highlights of the week
- 7 practical animation tips - Seven simple ideas you can use to improve your animations today. - Emil Kowalski
- Decentralizing quality - Why moving judgment to the edges wins in the long run. - Matt Ström-Awn
Read all week, picked once. The best design links — every Tuesday.
Product design, UX/UI and PM
- Why I hate the MVP car - I have a love-hate relationship with the MVP car, that classic illustration that shows us the right and wrong way to build a product. - Dave Rupert
- Management values I didn’t expect to learn - Design management is harder (and better) than I thought. - Ted Goas
Design engineering
- When color meets constraints - A guide to brand–product collaboration. - Ben Martin
- The Coyier CSS starter - A fairly opinionated CSS starter by Chris, following a set of personal principals to guide what is in there and what isn't. - Chris Coyier
Artificial intelligence
- When interfaces design themselves - Radically adaptive experiences change content, structure, style, or behavior to provide the right experience for the moment. - Josh Clark, Veronika Kindred
- Where’s the AI design renaissance? - What should designers focus on in light of rapidly changing AI tools? - Erik D. Kennedy
Inspiration and creativity
- Designing frontier interfaces at Neuralink and Apple (video) - The level of detail and first-principles design thinking is truly impressive. - Rooz Mahdavian, Michael Riddering
Last but not least
- Contemporary design doesn’t just reflect nihilism, it creates it - How what we build transforms our condition and shapes the very fabric of meaning. - Michael Buckley