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Weekly recap #20
Top design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
The Vercel design system - Our mission is to make cloud computing accessible to everyone. We build products for developers and designers. And… -
5 exercises to level up your design skills - My design journey started four years ago when I quit my job at a children’s sleep clinic to… -
How Apple reinvented the cursor for iPad - Even though Apple did not invent the mouse pointer, history has cemented its place in dragging it out… -
Design ↘
When bad UX is good - A close friend of mine, Dennis, is one of the editors and contributors to Headache Comix, an underground… -
UI cheat sheet: radio buttons, checkboxes, and other selectors - In today’s cheat sheet we will be looking at selectors and how they differ. Unlike most of my… -
Useful sections for a design system reference site - More people will use your design system if it’s easy to browse. There’s a high probability that your… -
New identity for Esprit by Pentagram - Refresh of one of world’s most iconic fashion brands. Born in the 1960s, Esprit is one of the… -
Development ↘
Rebuilding our tech stack for the new Facebook - We reduced the CSS on the homepage by 80 percent by changing how we write and build our… -
A complete guide to CSS functions - Like any other programming language, CSS has functions. They can be inserted where you’d place a value, or… -
Optimize cumulative layout shift - Learn how to avoid sudden layout shifts to improve user-experience. Layout shifts can be distracting to users. Imagine… -
For many, accessibility is an unknown unknown - An unknown unknown is something you don’t know you don’t know. When you’re just starting out with web… -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
Dark mode design - Dark Mode Design is an inspiration resource showcasing beautifully designed websites that are either exclusively in dark mode… -
Tools and resources ↘
The pragmatic designer: Local and self hosted design tools - Design tools have changed a lot in the past years. We used to work with tools like Photoshop… -
Design system interview questions - Successful design systems are finely tuned to the organization they serve. At the beginning of every client design… -
Last but not least ↘
Art deco will be the visual language of 2021 - Who am I to say this? You're right. I can't tell for certain what will or won’t make… -
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