Design and frontend links this week.

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Design systems glossary - Design systems can be tricky if you don’t know what certain words mean. Here’s a quick primer to… - SuperFriendly / filed under Design System

Yes Sur: Behind the scenes of Sketch’s macOS makeover - We always want to put your designs front and center so they can shine — the last thing… - Sketch / filed under Sketch App

10 usability heuristics for user interface design - Jakob Nielsen's 10 general principles for interaction design. - Jakob Nielsen / filed under Usability, UX Design

Design to save people from themselves - there are a million more examples of software saving people from their own mistakes, insecurities, and ignorance –… - Brian Lovin / filed under UI Design, UX Design

Learning 3D as a product designer - 30 days of Blender. Staying at home has given me a lot of time to think about my… - Wayne Cen / filed under 3D

UX lessons from Big Sur - There are problems with Apple’s Big Sur, but let’s look at a few UX decisions they (mostly) got… - Jordan Bowman / filed under Product Design

What are design tokens? - Design tokens are just spicy variables, right? Wrong! They are an extremely versatile way of sharing design properties… - Andy Bell / filed under Design System

Under-engineered responsive tables - I have written a bunch about responsive tables. Maybe too much. I keep trying to give developers the… - Adrian Roselli / filed under HTML & CSS

Understanding flex-grow, flex-shrink, and flex-basis - When you apply a CSS property to an element, there’s lots of things going on under the hood.… - Robin Rendle / filed under CSS Flexbox, HTML & CSS

SVGBox: API for web icons - SVGBox makes it dead-easy to include icons in your project. - Shubham Jain / filed under Icon Set, SVG

Figma: Creating and organizing Variants - Variants bring a range of new possibilities to components and scalable design systems. - Anthony DiSpezio / filed under Figma

Time tracking - Let’s go through a few things we learned about time tracking and how we make it less scary. - Hans Pagel / filed under Productivity

Medium’s Design team book recommendations - A collection of some of the Medium Design team’s favorite reads. - Aetherpoint / filed under Books

▶ How to run a design critique and get feedback on your work - Design crits are a great way to get feedback from your immediate design team on your work. - Femke / filed under Product Management

Relax into structure in your day - There’s something in many of us that resists structure — we want the freedom of not having to… - Leo Babauta / filed under Productivity