Top design and frontend links this week.

5 steps to build the best startup website: and 20 inspiring examples - Web designers: the future is bright. The need for business websites is rapidly growing due to an increasing… - Kate Dagli  Sponsored

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… - Mark Wilson / filed under Books

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… - Alex Muench / filed under Product Design, Product Management

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… - Anthony Thomas / filed under UI Design

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… - Niharika Hariharan / filed under Product Design

Faux Crocs redesign - Stephen Kelleher takes a stab at redesigning the Crocs logo. The shoe-croc brought a smile to my face,… - Armin Vit / filed under Logo Design, Redesign

Using psychology to supercharge your products - In this #mtpcon London talk, Joe Leech shows us how, in order to design products that people love,… - Joe Leech / filed under Product Design, Psychology

‘Users hate change’ - This week NN Group released a video by Jakob Nielsen in which he attempts to help designers deal… - Sleepyfox / filed under Product Design

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… - Luke Harrison / filed under HTML & CSS, Sass

CSS :empty selector - Often, we want to style elements that contain content. How about when an element has no children or… - Samantha Ming / filed under HTML & CSS

Design principles for developers - Processes and css tips for better web design. It is technically true that anyone can cook. But there’s… - Andrew Spencer / filed under Design Principles

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… - Addy Osmani / filed under HTML & CSS

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. - Adam Wathan / filed under HTML & CSS

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… - Theo Strauss / filed under Apps & Tools

Introducing Storybook design system - A reusable UI component library for Storybook contributors. Storybook is the most popular component explorer on the planet.… - Dominic Nguyen / filed under Design System

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… - Carmel DeAmicis / filed under Typography

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… - David Martin / filed under Product Design, UI Design, UX Design

“Backlogs make you feel guilty” - Should we delete our backlog? Justin and Jon are joined by Jason Fried to talk about: The philosophy… - Build your SaaS / filed under Product Management