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Week 12
Best design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
Tokyo 2020 unveils games pictograms - The Tokyo organising committee of the olympic and paralympic games (Tokyo 2020) has unveiled the official sports pictograms… -
Terrible UX design job descriptions (or: How to avoid bad UX design jobs) - Terrible UX Design jobs are flooding the market right now. You can tell a lot about a UX… -
Design ↘
Techniques to make mobile call to action buttons intuitive - To tap or not to tap—that is the question on the user’s mind when they see a call… -
Meet Ivan Zhao, the designer/founder that is making “the missing half of Slack” - When you talk to Ivan Zhao, he’ll make one thing abundantly clear: product designers should stand on the… -
The myth that design systems solve easy problems - On Thursday, I read a brilliant blog post about Barnardo’s design system. There’s lots to say about this… -
User interfaces: hiding stuff should be a last resort - Many of the components we design for the web are made to save space. It’s interesting that we… -
Development ↘
Better numerical inputs for mobile forms - My colleagues in Chicago just launched a great responsively-designed greygoose.com, and Jason Grigsby and I were wondering how… -
CSS selectors cheatsheet & details - Recently, I’ve been diving into CSS selectors. There are so many CSS selectors with unfamiliar symbols -
Designing an aspect ratio unit for CSS - One of the things that comes up again and again in CSS is the fact that there is… -
Lessons learned building design systems - Having contributed to a few design systems now, I have found that the same issues appear again and… -
Tools and resources ↘
RFS (Responsive Font Size) - RFS (simply the abbreviation for Responsive Font Size) is a font size engine which automatically calculates the appropriate… -
CorelDRAW is gracing macOS again — and why this is important - So, why is the latest news — the return of CorelDRAW to macOS after 18 years — important? Surely it’s a product… -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
Logo design process: Matrix for idea generating - This idea generating matrix was a part of a logo design process for a high quality synthetic motor… -
What it means to be a designer who’s creative - Look at the front page of sites like Dribbble or Behance and you’ll find an assortment of vibrantly… -
A framework to give better design feedback: Analyze, Discuss, Suggest - Feedback is a gift. Feedback has a vital role in product development. Not only it can nurture the… -
Last but not least ↘
Design in tech report 2019 - If you are reading this right now then you are aware that I am about to head out… -
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