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Week 15
Best design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
IBM Design Language: a series of animations made by Buck - With the launch of a new visual language, typeface and robust set of tools, IBM has taken the… -
6 questions all experienced designers should be able to answer - The mob picked up torches and pitchforks to go after after the business people and programmers that made… -
Design ↘
What are design tokens? - I’ve been hearing a lot about design tokens lately, and although I’ve never had to work on a… -
Better link labels - Specific link text sets sincere expectations and fulfills them, and is substantial enough to stand alone while remaining… -
The designer’s growth model - The growth of a designer, i.e. the maturity of design, goes through several phases. Different phases ask different… -
A new religion for designers - Technologist John Maeda on the changing relationship between design and development -
Development ↘
You probably don’t need that hip web framework - Every year, there's something new to learn and play with in the web development world that's considered something… -
Cool uses of the ::before and ::after pseudo elements - I have a confession to make: I kind of love the ::before and ::after pseudoelements. They’re like a… -
The dark side of the grid - The CSS Grid Layout specification is one of the most exciting additions to CSS in the last few… -
Simple & boring - Simplicity is a funny adjective in web design and development. I'm sure it's a quoted goal for just… -
Tools and resources ↘
Dragula: A free stock images tool on steroids - Search for images by simply entering a keyword in the search bar. Dragula will find a random image… -
Editor.js: Next generation block styled editor - Editor.js is a block-styled editor for rich media stories. It outputs clean data in JSON instead of heavy… -
X-Ray: Visual debugger for your HTML - A simple HTML debugger, executable by bookmark! X-ray, a sub project of ghost.css, enables you to see the… -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
Clarity and style - A few days ago, John Maeda, Head of Computational Design and Inclusion at Automattic, shared this tweet: Good… -
Dieter Rams designed products to last a lifetime — and he’s horrified by how we throw things away - For more than 50 years, Rams made an indelible mark on product design, predominantly at the German electronics… -
Last but not least ↘
Productivity isn’t about time management. It’s about attention management - “Time management” is not a solution — it’s actually part of the problem. A few years ago during… -
