Issue #636: Instagram Motion Identity System
Design portfolio advice, Designing icons in Figma, From atomic design to a global solution, A collection of Design Engineers, and more.
Highlights of the week
- Your private treasure trove of inspiration - Like a visual search engine for your own brain. All your bookmarks and inspiration in one private place, organized with AI. Works beautifully for mood boarding, too. - mymind promoted
- Design portfolio advice - It aches my heart every time we hire, seeing the lack of thinking designers put in building their portfolios. - Hardik Pandya
- Instagram Motion Identity System - In collaboration with Instagram’s in-house brand design team, we created a flexible, balanced motion system, effective across both marketing and product. - Studio Dumbar
Read all week, picked once. The best design links — every Tuesday.
Product design, UX/UI and PM
- When and how to move from an assumption to a hypothesis - An assumption is a guess or thing that you work on with the belief that it’s true. A (good) hypothesis doesn’t come with any belief. It’s an idea or statement you use as a starting point to prove or disprove a position. - Andrew Duckworth
- The goal of a “strategy” is to change our own team’s behavior - A strong strategy is of course a key foundation for everything we’re building as a company. - Ami Vora
- Designing icons in Figma - We want to make sure that this article is interesting for those who are already familiar with the icon design field, but also accessible for those who are entering the unknown. - Streamline
Design engineering
- Why UI designers should understand Flexbox and CSS Grid - Or bye bye, rigid column grid layout. - Christine Vallaure
- From atomic design to a global solution - I was recently a guest on the CodingCatDev podcast, where we covered a lot of ground around design systems, including the design system ecosystem, the idea of a Global Design System. - Brad Frost
Tools and resources
- Storybook 8 - Next level testing, performance, and compatibility. - Michael Shilman
Inspiration and creativity
- A collection of Design Engineers - Collecting people I know who work at the intersection of design and engineering, in an attempt to figure out what a design engineer is. - Maggie Appleton
Last but not least
- The minestrone of talent - Join startups where there is high density of talent. - David Hoang