Top design and frontend links this week.

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Designers tech stack of 2020 - We’re apporaching the end of the decade and a lot has happened in UX, HCI and Interaction design… - Ulrik Stoch Jensen / filed under Apps & Tools, Product Design

Mental models for designers - Curious about product design at Dropbox? Here’s a look at tools we use for solving problems, making decisions,… - Wes O'Haire / filed under Product Design

How we scaled our design system to unleash Skyscanner’s new brand - Skyscanner’s design system, ‘Backpack’, played a crucial role in enabling the company’s recent brand refresh. In this piece,… - Skyscanner Engineering / filed under Design System

Why designing affordances is Apple’s secret design superpower - Apple products aren’t usually the first to market in new categories, but what lifts their products into design… - John Brownlee / filed under Product Design

How to conduct UX research if you’re an introvert - My name is Olga and I’m an introvert. Well, sort of. On a good day, I’m perfectly able… - Olga Wojnarowska / filed under UX Design

GitLab Iconography: MVC meets visual design - A minimum viable change approach for a key UI element. Anyone who uses GitLab knows how extensively we… - Jeremy Elder / filed under Icon Design

Thinking about color - Over the last two years we’ve tried to improve our usage of color at Cloudflare. There were a… - Sam Mason de Caires / filed under Coloring

Why CSS HSL colors are better - One of the most fundamental concepts in CSS is colors. It’s a basic concept everywhere, but in this… - Elad Shechter / filed under HTML & CSS

Designing for design systems - Design systems are really hard to build. They force designers into thinking about their designs in a more… - Ethan Muller / filed under Design System

Do’s and Don’ts of implementing a hamburger menu - The infamous hamburger menu is one of the examples where I see bad practice very often. Surf the… - Michael Scharnagl / filed under HTML & CSS

▶ Building responsive layouts - On this episode of Designing in the Browser, we’re going to take a look at building responsive layouts… - Una Kravets / filed under HTML & CSS, Responsive Design

Leonardo: an open source contrast-based color generator - Create beautiful, accessible, and adaptive color systems using contrast-ratio based generated colors. If you’ve created a color palette… - Nate Baldwin / filed under Coloring

A collection of popular CSS layouts and patterns - Components, patterns and layouts are things you have to deal with everyday. There are a lot of CSS… - Phuoc Nguyen / filed under CSS Flexbox, CSS Grid Layout, HTML & CSS

Storybook for Svelte - Storybook runs alongside your app in development mode. It helps you build UI components isolated from the business… - Dominic Nguyen / filed under Svelte

Can you learn design? - Did you know that the version of Spend Stack I released a few short months ago is actually…… - Jordan Morgan / filed under Product Design

The loss of micro-privacy - Few applications have affected mass consumer psychology as much as messaging apps. While social media helps us build… - Adrian Zumbrunnen / filed under Privacy, Product Design