Best design and frontend links this week.

Best 9 tools for building websites fast and easy - Businesses trying to establish an online presence to achieve greater sales are often encouraged to take advantage of ... - BAWMEDIA  Sponsored

The McDonaldization of UX - I’m on the phone for a thirty-minute interview with a corporation that has a specialty division in healthcare… - Chris Kiess / filed under UX Design

A unifying identity for Oslo - The City of Oslo and Creuna have developed a new, user-friendly identity that will make it easier for… - Creuna / filed under Branding

Soft skills in UX — what makes a mediocre designer great - If, like me, you keep up to date with many design and technology blogs, you find tons of… - Kaja Toczyska / filed under UX Design

Muse: designing a studio for ideas - Muse is a prototype iPad app for reading, thinking, and developing your ideas. Starting with inspiration from physical… - Ink & Switch / filed under Product Design

How to reverse over-complication in product design - Simplicity may not be simple, but it’s crucial to your product’s long-term success. Most product designers have the… - Patrick Faller / filed under Product Design

Two fundamental approaches to designing UX - Picture Jon. Jon is a first adopter (early consumer) of a startup that’s trying to design a better… - Chris Lee / filed under UX Design

▶ Let’s make a design system! Live coding at Smashing Conf - I had a great time at Smashing Conf San Francisco, where my session involved live-coding a design system… - Brad Frost / filed under Atomic Design, Design System, Front-end

Create a responsive grid layout with no media queries, using CSS Grid - Embracing the flexible nature of the web gives us powerful, resilient front-ends, where instead of using specific sizes,… - Andy Bell / filed under CSS Grid Layout, HTML & CSS

Digging into the display property: Box generation - This is the second in a short series of articles about the display property in CSS. You can… - Rachel Andrew / filed under HTML & CSS

Moving from Gulp to Parcel - Following this pole on Twitter I thought I’d take a look at spinning up a project using Parceljs.… - Ben Frain / filed under Front-end

Color Designer – Simple color palette generator - With this tool, you can easily generate a color palette for your next project. The tool will also… - Wojciech Banaś / filed under Apps & Tools, Coloring

Two new future-proof features from Sketch 55 beta - Although it is only two new features, these are the features that will change your workflow in Sketch!… - Pizza Yap / filed under Sketch App

The concept of breakpoints. Pain reliever in Figma - So, the breakpoints. Despite being a headache for product designers since the early beginning of the profession, proper… - Max Moskalenko / filed under Figma, Responsive Design

bento-starter: Full-Stack solution to quickly build PWA applications - bento-starter is an Open-Source Full-Stack solution that helps you to build fast and maintainable web applications using tools… - Franck Abgrall / filed under Progressive Web App

The 3 stages of failure in life and work (and how to fix them) - One of the hardest things in life is to know when to keep going and when to move… - James Clear / filed under Self Development

Perfectionism, anxiety and learning to be kind to yourself - “If an interviewer ever asks you what your weaknesses are, just tell them you’re a perfectionist”. This was… - Jo Franchetti / filed under Self Development

Lessons learned by a designer to designers. Frankly. - My first day at Readdle was 8 years ago already. I’ve shared my lessons learned, frankly, on Twitter… - Dmitry Kovalenko / filed under Self Development

Wait and see - "Don't just stand there; do something!" It's interesting: often the opposite of this is true. Usually, the best… - Justin Jackson / filed under Product Management