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Week 29
Top design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
Design principles are dead - I hate design principles. Sure, they can be memorable like an equation (“Less is more”¹) or incisive as… -
Design guidelines: how I get design done - A while ago I found myself in need of creating design guidelines. I was in a meeting about… -
Design ↘
Extending atomic design - Atomic design is now over 6 years old (which is nuts!). I’m thrilled that all these years later… -
Five habits of design thinking - There are three thinking styles that have transformed how we develop new products today: Agile, Lean (Startup) and… -
Chaos design - Before the robots take our jobs, can we please get them to help us do some good work?… -
Development ↘
Menus with “dynamic hit areas” - Flyout menus! The second you need to implement a menu that uses a hover event to display more… -
How we built a component library that people actually enjoy using - Sprout Social’s design system, Seeds, has done a lot of growing up since it launched in October of… -
The accessibility of styled form controls - A repository of styled and “styled” form control elements and markup patterns, and how they are announced by… -
Tools and resources ↘
The best book to read as a developer - I was able to determine that the book is now open sourced, here is a pdf available online.… -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
No, not “everyone is a designer” - Everyone can participate in design, but professional designers show their value as expert facilitators who drive the design… -
Personal development ↘
Bad work is always your fault - You’re bound by a responsibility to your users, not by your boss’s directives. I completely understand how hard… -
Last but not least ↘
Shape up: Stop running in circles and ship work that matters - This book is a guide to how we do product development at Basecamp. It’s also a toolbox full… -
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