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Week 19
Best design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
The McDonaldization of UX - I’m on the phone for a thirty-minute interview with a corporation that has a specialty division in healthcare… -
A unifying identity for Oslo - The City of Oslo and Creuna have developed a new, user-friendly identity that will make it easier for… -
Design ↘
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… -
Muse: designing a studio for ideas - Muse is a prototype iPad app for reading, thinking, and developing your ideas. Starting with inspiration from physical… -
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… -
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… -
Development ↘
▶ 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… -
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,… -
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… -
Moving from Gulp to Parcel - Following this pole on Twitter I thought I’d take a look at spinning up a project using Parceljs.… -
Tools and resources ↘
Color Designer – Simple color palette generator - With this tool, you can easily generate a color palette for your next project. The tool will also… -
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!… -
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… -
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… -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
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… -
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… -
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… -
Last but not least ↘
Wait and see - "Don't just stand there; do something!" It's interesting: often the opposite of this is true. Usually, the best… -
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