Weekly recap #14

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IDEO designers share the best creative advice they’ve ever received - Creativity often isn't the work of a single, solitary genius. In fact, it's usually when a set of… - Ali Cottong / filed under Creativity

How a small team built figma.com’s design system - Figma is a collaborative interface design tool that gives individuals and teams a better way to design, but… - Figma / filed under Design System

A beginner’s guide to Lottie - Welcome! By the end of this course, you’ll have successfully created your first Lottie animation and gotten a… - Salih Abdul Karim / filed under Animation

A reflection on design mistakes - Every now and then, as I initiated my career as a Designer, I would stumble upon a few… - Andreia Costa / filed under Product Design

Creating contrast-based themes with Leonardo - Recently we launched Adobe’s open-source tool Leonardo with the goal of empowering designers and engineers to create accessible-first… - Nate Baldwin / filed under Coloring, UI Design

New logo and identity for OnePlus done in-house with Interbrand - While the changes are relatively minimal — the core composition of the logo remains the same — I… - Armin Vit / filed under Branding, Logo Design

10 essential cognitive & behavior patterns for UX design - These are a few of the most common behaviors that people demonstrate as they relate to product design.… - Danny Sapio / filed under UX Design

Dropdowns - On to our first component: a dropdown list. I'm going to walk through the implementation I landed on… - Sebastian De Deyne / filed under HTML & CSS, Javascript

Margin considered harmful - We should ban margin from our components. Hear me out. Margin breaks component encapsulation. A well-built component should… - Max Stoiber / filed under UI Design

Embracing modern image formats - In The Cost of Javascript, Addy makes a really good point: 200kb of Javascript is more "expensive" than… - Josh Comeau / filed under Performance

The beginner’s guide to React - React got that name for a reason. It’s a component-based JavaScript library that renders smartly and can seriously… - Kent C. Dodds / filed under React.js

Let’s learn CSS grid - CSS Grid lets us create stunning layouts without adding complex markup or JavaScript. In this episode, Rachel Andrew… - Rachel Andrew and Jason Lengstorf / filed under CSS Grid Layout

Going remote - Following recent advice by the UK government, you may have had to take the plunge into working from… - Christopher Murphy / filed under Remote Working

Designing remotely with Jonas Downey - Jonas Downey is live talking about designing remotely. - Jonas Downey / filed under Remote Working

Remote usability testing 101 & how to get started - As any UX Designer can confirm, one of the hardest things about in-person usability testing is getting your… - Justin Morales / filed under Usability

Affinity Designer: A love story - I have always been easily fascinated with new software. As a teenager, I used to install each and… - Infinum / filed under Affinity Designer

I don’t care what Google or Apple or whoever did - It is not uncommon that I raise an accessibility or usability issue with a client’s design or implementation… - Adrian Roselli / filed under Product Design, UI Design