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Designer portfolio sites - This is a curated collection of my all-time favorite designer portfolio sites ever featured on Typewolf. The focus… - Jeremiah Shoaf / filed under Inspiration

The Kawaiization of product design - Over the last year or two, I’ve noticed a certain style emerge in brand and product design. Look… - Tobias Van Schneider / filed under Product Design, UI Design

28 tools I use to get things done - I’m a bit of a nerd when it comes to finding the perfect app for a particular task.… - Luke Leighfield / filed under Apps & Tools, Product Design

Design system based on the 8pt grid - If you and your team aren’t using a Design System (DS), please open the latest project in your… - Vitsky / filed under Design System

UI cheat sheet: Dropdown field - Dropdowns get a lot of flak from the UI world – and if we are honest, it’s not… - Tess Gadd / filed under UI Design

Design better, not more - I think our main priority should be to design better, not more. How do we design services that… - Anton Sten / filed under Product Design

5 principles for better designer-developer collaboration - Humans love step-by-step tutorials. As the editor of a design publication myself, it’s not uncommon to see articles… - Fabricio Teixeira / filed under Collaboration, Product Management

Responsive grids and how to actually use them: Common UI layouts - How to use the right responsive grid and UI layout based on your design goals. Now that you… - Christie Tang / filed under UI Design

Re-creating a Macintosh with gradients and box-shadows - The process I followed to recreate it is pretty much the same as described in the polaroid tutorial,… - Sarah L. Fossheim / filed under HTML & CSS

Incrementally correct personal websites - I first heard of the phrase "incremental correctness" from Guillermo Rauch during our Design Details interview over 2… - Brian Lovin / filed under Design Process, Product Development

Atomic CSS-in-JS - With recent production deployments from Facebook and Twitter, I think a new trend is slowly growing: atomic CSS-in-JS.… - Sébastien Lorber / filed under Atomic Design, HTML & CSS

Color theme switcher - Last year, the design gods decided that dark modes were the new hotness. "Light colors are for suckers",… - Max Böck / filed under HTML & CSS

Exciting things on the horizon for CSS layout - This past week has brought a few announcements from browser vendors of some exciting things that might have… - Michelle Barker / filed under CSS Grid Layout, HTML & CSS

Best blog designs I want to steal everything from - As I was going through rebuilding my blog, I spent a lot of time looking at other people’s… - Jon Kuperman / filed under Inspiration

Shades of Dieter Rams - There are few product designers whose impact and legacy in the design world match that of Dieter Rams.… - Carl MH Barenbrug / filed under Inspiration, Product Design

How to make big changes one step at a time - Great companies are defined by their ability to change. Apple changed when they re-hired Steve Jobs. Microsoft changed… - Matthew Ström / filed under Product Design, Product Management

Chromatic 2.0: Code review, but for UI - We’re launching Chromatic 2.0, a free service for Storybook hosting that helps teams review user interfaces together. Along… - Dominic Nguyen / filed under Frontend

The power of anti-goals - Last year, my business partner Chris and I sat down to think about what we wanted to achieve… - Andrew Wilkinson / filed under Psychology, Self Development