Issue #709: Minimalism
PatternCraft, Animations, Interface, CSS alignment, Anchor positioning, Improving design to code, How we built Product Intelligence, and more.
Highlights of the week
- everyday ux - Concise posts, actionable tips, and ready-to-use resources for your everyday UX work. Craft, mindset, and process. - everyday ux sponsored
- Minimalism Life - Delve into the principles of minimalism and simple living. Uncover inspiring minimalist art, enriching lifestyle resources, and innovative sustainable design. - Carl Barenbrug
- PatternCraft - Professional-grade background patterns and gradients. Easily copy the code and seamlessly integrate it into your projects. - Megh Bari
Read all week, picked once. The best design links — every Tuesday.
Product design, UX/UI and PM
- You don’t need animations - Before you start animating, ask yourself: what’s the purpose of this animation? - Emil Kowalski
- Interface - On connection, multi-modality, and self-expression. - DOC
Design engineering
- The fundamentals of CSS alignment - While centering elements in CSS has become easy over time, there is still a lot of confusion around alignment in general. - Temani Afif
- The basics of anchor positioning - In this article, I will cover the basics of Anchor Positioning and how I wish I had learned it earlier. - Ahmad Shadeed
Artificial intelligence
- How can AI UI capture intent? - Exploring contextual prompt patterns that capture user intent as it is typed. - Sharang Sharma
Tools and resources
- Improving design to code with the Dev Mode MCP server (video) - The Dev Mode MCP server enables users to extract critical context information from Figma that helps inform better AI code generation. - Yarden Katz, Peter McCarron
Last but not least
- How we built Product Intelligence - To provide genuinely helpful signals for product decisions, a backlog needs to be well-organized, with similar issues grouped together and labels applied consistently. - Yann-Edern Gillet, Matthijs Wolting