California Design System, Beautiful Shadows, Design failure, Fluid type sizes, Cascade Layers

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California Design System - The Design System makes it easy for state digital teams to build accessible, consistent, and performant services and products to meet Californians’ needs. - California Office of Digital Innovation / filed under Design System

Figma plugin: Beautiful Shadows - The plugin allows you to create beautiful shadows by simply dragging a ‘light source’ which casts a shadow on selected elements. - Alexander Widua / filed under Figma

Settings are not a design failure - The systematic thinking in our industry is that settings are the result of design failure. - Adrien Griveau / filed under Product Design

Fluid type sizes and spacing - I’ve been using a fluid type and spacing system on the most recent builds I’ve completed. Here’s why I use it, and how I approach it. - Piper Haywood / filed under HTML & CSS, Typography

Cascade Layers: First contact - Earlier this week I learned about CSS Cascade Layers and now I’m all hyped up because I really like the concept. - Manuel Matuzović / filed under HTML & CSS