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UX design for navigation menus - Let’s look at some principles of nav design that will help our users have a better experience. - Jordan Bowman / filed under UX Design

Introducing Mono icons - It’s very hard to find an icon set that fulfils all your project needs, most of them feel… - Marina Rizo / filed under Icon Set

The untold history of macOS System Preferences - The current version of macOS descended from Mac OS X, announced at Macworld in 2000 by Steve Jobs. - Arun Venkatesan / filed under UI Design

7 steps to benchmark your product’s UX - Benchmark your UX by first determining appropriate metrics and a study methodology. - Alita Joyce / filed under UX Design

A guide to experience mapping for UX design - A user experience map is a method of visualizing the entire end-to-end user experience that an average user… - Justin Morales / filed under UX Design

Measuring the health of a design system - Everything in a system has a natural life cycle that begins with a human need, eventually grows into… - Chase McCoy / filed under Design System

Buttons that spark joy - What if we could make certain actions not just successful, but celebrations? - Alex Trost / filed under Javascript

Centering in CSS - A guide to everything you need to know about centering in CSS - Ahmad Shadeed / filed under HTML & CSS

Migrating from styled-components to Stitches - This post is about highlighting the main differences between styled-components and Stitches. - Pedro Duarte / filed under HTML & CSS, Javascript

Tools should not only be for experts – they should turn us into them - About eight years ago Bret Victor tried to change the way developer tools work by providing a faster… - Christian Heilmann / filed under Apps & Tools, Coding

Embracing the tension between code and design - There’s a natural tension between design and code. In the world of design, the focus is deciding what… - Dylan Field / filed under Figma

Mindful productivity: a sustainable way to work and think - Mindful productivity can be defined as being consciously present in what you’re doing, while you’re doing it, in… - Anne-Laure Le Cunff / filed under Productivity

First principles: Elon Musk on the power of thinking for yourself - First principles thinking, which is sometimes called reasoning from first principles, is one of the most effective strategies… - James Clear / filed under Product Design