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Week 42
Top design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
How we’re establishing a new visual language for The Economist - Our design system is helping us build the next generation of digital products. At The Economist, we’re building… -
The obvious UI is often the best UI - Voltaire said, “le sens commun est fort rare”—common sense is very rare. Perhaps to realize that a certain… -
What makes a good wireframe? - We make a lot of wireframes at Inktrap, from quick sketches on paper or a whiteboard, all the… -
How to design delightful dark themes - Dark themes are the latest trend in app design. macOS introduced Dark Mode last year. Android launched Dark… -
Design ↘
It’s time we stop unsolicitedly redesigning Spotify - A list of non-profit organizations that could use your design chops instead. We’ve all been there. All we… -
The 23–point UX design checklist - This is the The 23–Point UX Design Checklist ebook, written by Fabio Muniz, Product Designer at TestLodge. During… -
Dear Ueno: What’s your design process like? - Process gives us trusted and time-tested ways to do good work, but in reality every project is so… -
The league of evil designers - Ah, 2 years in online casinos? Not bad. Nice touch with the ol’ button switcharoo for users trying… -
Development ↘
The box model is not layout - One term that keeps coming up in the design community as a stand-in for layout is “box model”,… -
Introducing Sass modules - Sass just launched a major new feature you might recognize from other languages: a module system. This is… -
Design systems workflow in Storybook - Last week over 15,000 people checked out Design Systems for Developers, a free guide I cowrote about the… -
Toucaan: Rethinking CSS frameworks - This is the first of the many chapters on a new CSS framework called Toucaan. In this introductory… -
Tools and resources ↘
cursorOS – original macOS cursors - This is a collection of original macOS cursors, identical as possible without changes in style. Use them in… -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
Why does modern design all look the same (and should it?) - Aesthetic monoculture and the ‘sameness’ of modern design. If you’re old enough to remember the early days of… -
What I learned from 6 months leading a design system for a leading e-commerce company - In November 2018, I joined Bukalapak. Almost immediately after, we initiated a project to develop a new design… -
Self development ↘
Impostor syndrome: the fear of being exposed as a fraud - Yesterday, I launched my newsletter on Product Hunt. The launch went incredibly well, with 1,300 new subscribers joining… -
Last but not least ↘
Design for business impact - Designers need to understand and communicate how their work impacts the success of their business. By open-sourcing case… -
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