Top design and frontend links this week.

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Meet Spectrum, Adobe’s design system - Spectrum provides components and tools to help product teams work more efficiently, and to make Adobe’s applications more… - Adobe / filed under Design System

The 10 usability heuristics: Posters for your design office - Back in 1994, Jakob Nielsen wrote an article for Nielsen Norman Group called “10 Usability Heuristics” which outlined… - Tom O’Malley / filed under Usability

How to choose a font for a project - I recently received an email from a designer called Jared. He went through the typography lessons that I… - Matej Latin / filed under Typography

The makings of a great designer - I’ve talked to dozens of companies about what they look for in a designer. While we have seen… - Tobias van Schneider / filed under Inspiration, Self Development

Designing a portfolio with intent - Target the work you want to do. I designed and built a new portfolio website for myself. Take… - Andrew Couldwell / filed under Portfolio

Instagram makes bad navigation good? - Is popularity enough to switch nav patterns? Instagram is one of the most popular apps in the world.… - Michal Malewicz / filed under UI Design, UX Design

Designing revenue - How to intentionally design a money making product machine. Design Is Good For Business. The good news is… - Richard Banfield / filed under Business of Design, Product Strategy

UI component design system: A developer’s guide - Component design systems let teams collaborate to introduce a consistent user visual and functional experience across different products… - Joni Sar / filed under Design System

Svelte crash course (in 10 pics) - Always wanted to check out Svelte (aka. "the next big thing in web dev") but never got time… - Xiaoru Li / filed under Svelte

What I like about writing styles with Svelte - In Svelte, you can write CSS in a stylesheet like you normally would on a typical project. You… - Ollie Williams / filed under HTML & CSS, Svelte

25 days of CSS animations: teaching myself CSS through motion design - It was the first day of 2019 and I was not where I wanted to be. I felt… - Tee / filed under HTML & CSS

Awesome design plugins - All the best design plugins for Sketch, Adobe XD, and Figma, gathered in one place. - Lisa Dziuba / filed under Apps & Tools

Beyond multiplayer: Building community together in Figma - When we started building multiplayer capabilities in Figma four years ago, we weren’t positive that designers would embrace… - Dylan Field / filed under Figma

WebPonize - macOS app which converts images to WebP. Download the newest from releases page and unzip it, and move… - Shogo Sensui / filed under Apps & Tools

Books for designers, part III - A while ago, I shared my top 5 books with you that every designer should read, and I… - Johannes Ippen / filed under Books

Advice on branding in the ‘Screen Age’ from Base Design’s Jeffrey Waldman - Here, a senior designer from its New York office, Jeffrey Waldman, looks at some landmark designs that illustrate… - Jeffrey Waldman / filed under UI Design, Visual Design

Being prepared is overrated: start before you feel ready - Getting ready is fun. Doing research, learning new things, feeling excited about the journey ahead. But whether you’re… - Anne-Laure Le Cunff / filed under Self Development

Failure minded - Demystifying the fear of failure. Have you ever not done something at work because you were afraid to… - Garrett Prince / filed under Design Thinking, Product Design

Flash is responsible for the internet’s most creative era - A new book highlighting the visual evolution of web design paints a picture of a risk-taking creative culture… - Ernie Smith / filed under Creativity