Weekly recap #38

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How to create stronger layouts with the 8pt grid - Consistent, and scalable spacing helps you eliminate guesswork whilst designing and developing. - Marc Andrew / filed under UI Design

False simplicity in UI design: Simple is not always better - I’ve picked out a number of examples of false simplicity and what to do to actually make them… - Tom Kenny / filed under UI Design

An introduction to multi-platform design systems - Did you know that less than 10%* of public design systems support platforms other than the web? - Danny Banks / filed under Design System

Designers: design less, think more - One of the biggest shifts in the way I work as I’ve become more senior is the way… - Anton Sten / filed under Product Design

How to pick more beautiful colors for your data visualizations - Choosing good colors for your charts is hard. This article tries to make it easier. - Lisa Charlotte / filed under Data Visualization

A professional development framework for design - Clearleft has been working on a professional development framework to share with the UX Design community. - Andy Thornton / filed under UX Design

When there is no content between headings - For accessibility purposes, you could think of headings as a table of contents. But what if there are… - Hidde de Vries / filed under Accessibility, HTML & CSS

Design systems support - Operating a workflow to resolve designer and developer needs. - Nathan Curtis / filed under Design Ops, Design System

Custom bullets with CSS ::marker - It is now trivial to customize the color, size or type of number or bullet when using a… - Adam Argyle / filed under HTML & CSS

AVIF has landed - AVIF is a new image format derived from the keyframes of AV1 video. It's a royalty-free format, and… - Jake Archibald / filed under Technology

SAR: A framework for concise storytelling - I find the SAR framework is practical, it stands for Situation, Action, Result. - Budi Tanrim / filed under Storytelling

Web brutalism, seamfulness, and Notion - How a tool for sensemaking reconciles two distinct software design ideologies. - Brandon Dorn / filed under Product Design, UX Design