Top design and frontend links this week.

Get a free .design domain name for your website - Thinking of building your portfolio? .design is like .com and .net, but it's more relevant to what you do as a designer. Your .design name comes with free email, SSL, & a Site Builder - Porkbun  Sponsored

Wireframes are becoming less relevant — and that’s a good thing - Over time I’ve found wireframes to be less and less useful, and I don’t think I’m alone. Because… - Sean Dexter / filed under Wireframing

Footers 101: Design patterns and when to use each - Footers can be found at the bottom of almost every web page, and often take many forms, depending… - Therese Fessenden / filed under Information Architecture, Usability

4 things you didn’t know about Twitter’s logo - Company logos change all the time. Especially in tech, you see companies from Slack to Airbnb to giants… - Katharine Schwab / filed under Branding, Logo Design

How to create powerful personas - Making a persona is usually just a part of the “process”, an item on a UX checklist. An… - Amy Rogers / filed under Persona, UX Design

Accessibility, a powerful design tool - When given the choice between an accessible bathroom or a non-accessible one, many people would pick the accessible… - Hubert Florin / filed under Accessibility, UX Design

Better questions for better design feedback - What is the single worst question to ask after presenting a design? If you think “What did I… - Dan Brown / filed under Collaboration, Creativity

When is a button not a button? - Not everything that’s round and stands out is considered to be a button. In this article, Vadim explains… - Vadim Makeev / filed under HTML & CSS

Look ma, no Media Queries! Responsive layouts using CSS Grid - Not only has CSS Grid reshaped the way we think and build layouts for the web, but it… - Juan Martín García / filed under CSS Grid Layout, HTML & CSS

Do we still need JavaScript frameworks? - As a web developer, I try to assess my toolbox regularly and determine if I can do without… - Luke Joliat / filed under Javascript

BEM for everyone else - Using emoji to explain the principles of BEM. I’d heard the term Block Element Modifier (BEM) used by… - Dave House / filed under BEM, HTML & CSS

Claim your free .design domain name - Everyone is familiar with .com and .net, but did you know you get your own free .design domain?… - Sam Torrey / filed under Branding  Sponsored

Absurd illustrations that make sense - Absurd illustrations that make sense. What about surrealist illustrations for landing pages? Take every user on an individual… - Diana Valeanu / filed under Illustration

React for web designers - Curious about React? Here’s a simple way to understand the hype around the world’s most popular JavaScript library. - Koen Bok / filed under React.js

Best practices: components, styles, and shared libraries - Two of Figma's most powerful features are components and styles. They let you reuse UI objects and attributes… - Thomas Lowry / filed under Figma

UX Screenshots - Archive of mobile apps for you to get inspired. Send us a list of apps you would like… - UX Screenshots / filed under Inspiration, Mobile

Typography lessons from an unexpected place: SNL cue cards - Saturday Night Live has had an energy like no other show on TV–largely because it’s live. Every sketch… - Mark Wilson / filed under Typography

Ageism in tech: Why older designers are better - Ageism is a huge issue in the tech industry. People over 50 are seen as “too slow” to… - Jamal Nichols / filed under Career