Top design and frontend links this week.

Cool portfolio builders that you should consider using - A great way to showcase your projects is to build a personal portfolio. In today’s digital world the best way to go about ... - Kate Dagli  Sponsored

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… - Mark Mitchell / filed under Design System

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… - Susanna Zaraysky / filed under UI Design

What makes a good wireframe? - We make a lot of wireframes at Inktrap, from quick sketches on paper or a whiteboard, all the… - Sam Lester / filed under Wireframing

How to design delightful dark themes - Dark themes are the latest trend in app design. macOS introduced Dark Mode last year. Android launched Dark… - Teresa Man / filed under UI 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… - Fabricio Teixeira / filed under Redesign

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… - UXPin / filed under UX Design

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… - Sasha Lubomirsky / filed under Design Process

The league of evil designers - Ah, 2 years in online casinos? Not bad. Nice touch with the ol’ button switcharoo for users trying… - Linnéa Strid / filed under Product Design, UX Design

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”,… - Kilian Valkhof / filed under HTML & CSS

Introducing Sass modules - Sass just launched a major new feature you might recognize from other languages: a module system. This is… - Miriam Suzanne / filed under Sass

Design systems workflow in Storybook - Last week over 15,000 people checked out Design Systems for Developers, a free guide I cowrote about the… - Dominic Nguyen / filed under Design System

Toucaan: Rethinking CSS frameworks - This is the first of the many chapters on a new CSS framework called Toucaan. In this introductory… - Marvin Danig / filed under HTML & CSS

cursorOS – original macOS cursors - This is a collection of original macOS cursors, identical as possible without changes in style. Use them in… - Dmitry Simberev / filed under Design Resources

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… - Patrick Faller / filed under Product Design

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… - Budi Tanrim / filed under Design System

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… - Anne-Laure Le Cunff / filed under Psychology, Self Development

Design for business impact - Designers need to understand and communicate how their work impacts the success of their business. By open-sourcing case… - Designer Fund / filed under Product Design