Weekly recap #35

All design projects should start in a Google Doc - Sticking to words keeps everyone focused on the problem and those impacted. - Ted Goas / filed under Project Management

Why do we interface? - The core purpose of graphics in a GUI is not to be pretty. The purpose is to be… - Ehsan Noursalehi / filed under Product Design, UI Design

Leading-trim: The future of digital typesetting - How an emerging CSS standard can fix old problems and raise the bar for web apps - Ethan Wang / filed under HTML & CSS, Typography

The onion for design systems: Atomic design and pace layering - The Onion can help design teams balance the consistency and simplicity of UI libraries and its limitation to… - Leslie Mu / filed under Design System

A user guide to working with you - I’m going to walk you through an even simpler one, but this one has a few interesting twists. - Julie Zhuo / filed under Product Management

Seeing vs. reading - An ancient feud rages at the very core of your creative endeavour: The rational logical you and its… - Ralph Ammer / filed under Creativity, Drawing

Stacked cards with sticky positioning and a dash of Sass - The other day, I spotted this particularly lovely bit from Corey Ginnivan’s website where a collection of cards… - Robin Rendle / filed under HTML & CSS

Sign-in form best practices - Use cross-platform browser features to build sign-in forms that are secure, accessible and easy to use. - Sam Dutton / filed under HTML & CSS

Custom select styles with pure CSS - Modern CSS gives us a range of properties to achieve custom select styles that have a near-identical initial… - Stephanie Eckles / filed under HTML & CSS

Omatsuri: Open source browser tools for everyday use - Omatsuri is offline first PWA with 10 open source frontend focused tools. - Vitaly Rtishchev / filed under Apps & Tools

macOS setup guide - This guide covers the basics of setting up a development environment on a new Mac. - Sourabh Bajaj / filed under Apps & Tools

Staying focused with a simple method - There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. - Leo Babauta / filed under Productivity

How to do creative work - Excellence, not success. Discipline, not talent. Courage, not self-doubt. Action, not complacency. Elegance, not luxury. - Dan Saffer / filed under Inspiration

11 practical pieces of advice I’d give my younger self - When I was younger, I would let one awful event ruin my day, week, or even month. - Polina Marinova / filed under Self Development