Top design and frontend links this week.

Top multipurpose WP Themes to build cool websites with - You usually search for a top WordPress multipurpose theme for a good reason. They offer a high level… - Kate Dagli  Sponsored

The ugly truth about design systems - Design systems are great for scaling design across complex organisations and products. But in our drive for scale,… - Mark Boulton / filed under Design System

My favorite CSS hack - There is one CSS snippet that I have been copy-pasting for 5 years. This is one of my… - Gajus Kuizinas / filed under HTML & CSS

How to learn things at 1000x the speed - Throughout my schooling and career, I’ve impressed people over and over again with how quickly I pick up… - Pranay Prakash / filed under Learning

10 bites of UX wisdom every designer should know - An interview with Gabriel Kirmaier (@uxbites), author of UX Bites - Small Bites of Useful Information about User… - Elena Luchita / filed under Interview, UX Design

Designing web interfaces in position absolute - Frustrations, reflections and ideas on how to optimize our design and development processes through web UI tools. Where… - Marina Aísa / filed under UI Design

How to write for interactions - Improve your designs and communicate concepts through better word choices. Interaction design is inherently connected to language and… - Christina Bruce / filed under Copywriting, Interaction Design

Designing address forms for everyone, everywhere - Addresses are old. Like really old. The first documented use of a postal service dates to 2400 BC,… - Virginia Start / filed under UI Design, UX Design

Recreating Netlify’s neat-o sliding button effect - Have you seen Netlify's press page? It's one of those places where you can snag a download of… - Geoff Graham / filed under HTML & CSS

Atomic design and UI components: Theory to practice - Atomic design (by Brad Frost) is a mental model to help you think of user interfaces as a… - Jonathan Saring / filed under Atomic Design, UI Design

Overflow and data loss in CSS - In this article, Rachel Andrew explores the situations in which you might encounter overflow in your web designs… - Rachel Andrew / filed under HTML & CSS

Less data doesn’t mean a lesser experience - After yesterday’s post, someone on Twitter expressed concern about providing a “degraded experience” to users who have Save-Data… - Tim Kadlec / filed under Performance, UX Design

After Effects & Lottie in Webflow - Create animations in After Effects, export them as Lottie JSON files with the bodymovin plugin, then animate them… - Webflow / filed under Animation

Atomic categorizer - This is an unofficial tool to help you categorize Atomic Design components. Answer the following quiz to help… - Daniel Tonon / filed under Atomic Design

Mesmerizing practical illusions and animations by Rogier van der Zwaag - Multi-disciplinary artist Rogier van der Zwaag creates mesmerizing videos using practical effects. Van der Zwaag’s videos often feature… - Laura Staugaitis / filed under Animation, Inspiration

Design critiques at Figma - Design critiques are a key part of just about every design culture, and one of the few consistent… - Noah Levin / filed under Product Management

From FOMO to JOMO: the joy of missing out - I’m lucky to live in a city where lots of stuff happens. There’s always a conference, an exhibition,… - Anne-Laure Le Cunff / filed under Self Development

Dear designer: If you want to make the world a better place, start with your day job - Giving back is admirable, but it can’t undo the damage your employer is doing. Dear Mike, I work… - Mike Monteiro / filed under Design Ethics

“It’s like I couldn’t stop”: A digital minimalism case study - It’s hard to believe that it has already been six months since Digital Minimalism was released. (If you’re… - Cal Newport / filed under Case Study, Psychology

Where we can go - I’ve been working on design systems for around 5 years: almost as long as the term has existed.… - Daniel Eden / filed under Design System