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Week 1 / 2020
Top design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
15 web design books of 2019 that you should read - If you’re unsure about the best books for web designers published this year, we’re here to help you.… -
The bottomline on measuring hard and soft grids - I was recently conducting a peer review for some design explorations of a component for O’Reilly’s design system.… -
Tools for designing good-looking accessible interfaces - It's important for me that everything I design is both accessible, ethical and user friendly. And to be… -
Design ↘
How Airbnb drives users’ actions with their landing page design — a UX analysis - There is a reason you are not familiar with many -maybe not even one- of Airbnb’s competitors. The… -
Neumorphism in user interfaces - How UI trends reach for inspiration into the real world and what problems do we have to solve… -
2019 design in review - This year’s big scoop on everything you missed from logo redesigns, big design news, trends, and UI patterns. -
Fisher-Price brand identity refresh - A brand identity refresh for one of the world’s leading toy companies highlights a return to a playful… -
Development ↘
3 underused CSS features to learn for 2020 - CSS has a whole lot of power. There are properties and values for any number of amazing designs.… -
Pixels vs. relative units in CSS: Why it’s still a big deal - Browsers are getting better these days. We seem to be in a golden age where there’s a never-ending… -
Thoughts on Svelte - The hype surrounding Svelte right now is inescapable. Every blog post comment section, the article comment section on… -
This page is designed to last - For a professor, the end of the year is an opportunity to clean up and reset for the… -
Tools and resources ↘
GitSheet - A simple git cheat sheet reference for common git commands saving you time and helping you learn how… -
Quick tips for Auto Layout in Figma - I’m one of those folks who made the switch from Sketch to Figma over the summer. About a… -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
The New York City subway map as you’ve never seen it before - The city has changed drastically over the past 40 years, yet the M.T.A. map designed in 1979 has… -
Last but not least ↘
The modern web is becoming an unusable, user-hostile wasteland - As I keep browsing today’s internet, I keep recalling this extract. It’s the same thing happening with the… -
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