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Weekly recap #23
Top design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
Text fields & forms design — UI components series - Simple rules that will help you design forms users will like to complete. -
Untools: Tools for better thinking - Collection of thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems. -
Font pairing tools for designers - If you’re on the hunt for the perfect font combination for your next design project, look no further.… -
Design ↘
New logo for Dolby - Other than the odd counterspace of the “B”, I liked the old logo and it was a good… -
Resilient design - Five notes about long-lasting products. Any resilient product, digital or physical, needs to withstand use. -
Notes about product design - This gig is about throwing all the toys on the floor and making a giant mess before slowly… -
Over-complicated? Over-simplified? The UX efficient frontier - Designers: We are not our users. We are even less our expert users. I’ve seen many candidates forget… -
Development ↘
Better (more accessible) active link styling - I just learned that I should have been using [aria-current] to indicate the current page in the navigation. -
Block links: The search for a perfect solution - Throughout this post, I’ll use the term “card” to describe a component using the block link pattern. -
Svelte, why so much hype? - Since the release of version 3 in April 2019, Svelte has been in the news all the time.… -
The third age of JavaScript - Every 10 years there is a changing of the guard in JavaScript. I think we have just started… -
Tools and resources ↘
Origami 3 Beta - With a new canvas interface, dynamic layout, Figma & Sketch support and a ton of peformance improvements and… -
Figurative: A Figma app for iPadOS - Figurative brings the desktop-class editor experience from Figma to iPadOS—ready to work with a Magic Keyboard, a trackpad,… -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
Semilattice: System and interaction concepts - A collection of system and interaction concepts for personal knowledge management tools. -
The details - The details that make a product great are often invisible if you don’t pay close attention. -
Last but not least ↘
Responsive web design turns ten - That’s right: the original “Responsive Web Design” article turns ten today. It feels odd to think the article’s… -
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