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Week 33
Top design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
Google has a secret design library. Here are 35 of its best books - For just over a year, Google’s hardware design team has been working inside a new, highly classified design… -
A collection of document templates for product designers and teams - I’ve worked on these over the last couple of months and I hope they are useful or can… -
Design ↘
Why you shouldn’t gray out disabled buttons - What should you do if you have a button that isn’t active in a given context? Removing the… -
Why we need to rethink our design disciplines - The rapid emergence of a variety of design disciplines is leading to a siloed design process and ineffective… -
Faux Crocs redesign - Stephen Kelleher takes a stab at redesigning the Crocs logo. The shoe-croc brought a smile to my face,… -
Using psychology to supercharge your products - In this #mtpcon London talk, Joe Leech shows us how, in order to design products that people love,… -
‘Users hate change’ - This week NN Group released a video by Jakob Nielsen in which he attempts to help designers deal… -
Development ↘
Handling unused CSS in Sass to improve performance - Do you know the impact unused CSS has on performance? Spoiler: It’s a lot! In this article, we’ll… -
CSS :empty selector - Often, we want to style elements that contain content. How about when an element has no children or… -
Design principles for developers - Processes and css tips for better web design. It is technically true that anyone can cook. But there’s… -
Native lazy-loading for the web - Support for natively lazy-loading images and iframes is coming to the web! This video shows a demo of… -
Why you don’t need BEM with utility-first CSS - Taken from my upcoming free video series "Designing with Tailwind CSS"! More details here if you're interested. -
Tools and resources ↘
Meet Dimension: An open-source plan to adapt fully-featured design tools - As a product designer, I really only need two pieces of tech for my day-to-day: A computer to… -
Introducing Storybook design system - A reusable UI component library for Storybook contributors. Storybook is the most popular component explorer on the planet.… -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
The birth of Inter: How the new open-source typeface used by GitHub and Mozilla came to be - It takes a lot of work to invent a typeface. Figma designer Rasmus Andersson learned that first hand… -
46 ideas for Elon Musk and Tesla - Last August, I attended a UFC event at the Staples Center (No! Not this one). Months prior, the… -
Last but not least ↘
“Backlogs make you feel guilty” - Should we delete our backlog? Justin and Jon are joined by Jason Fried to talk about: The philosophy… -
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