Weekly Recap #6

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New logo for Dashlane by Pentagram - Looks like we have a lot of Dashlane users among us, as the tips mounted quickly yesterday. The… - Armin Vit / filed under Logo Design

9 tips to quickly improve your UI designs - Small and easy to put into practice tips to improve your designs. Creating beautiful, usable, and efficient UIs… - Marc Andrew / filed under UI Design

UX design process: a simple (but complete) guide - The UX design process begins at understanding the objectives of a business and how best to serve a… - Jeff Cardello / filed under Design Process, UX Design

Designing on a grid - Did you know … that the grid you design on doesn’t need equal width columns and gutters? Crazy. - Shannon Miwa / filed under Visual Design

Building exceptional design teams at Spotify - In this piece, Nicole Burrow, Design Director for the Consumer Experience Mission at Spotify, explains how building a… - Nicole Burrow / filed under Company culture, Product Management

Design systems 101: What, why, & how - Design systems are everywhere these days. It seems that every leading technology organization has published a design system,… - Linn Vizard / filed under Design System

A UX designer’s guide to understanding human behavior in user research - The most unpredictable part of a UX designer’s job is people. Being able to manage and lead users… - Maximiliano Cabrera / filed under Psychology, UX Design

Why 36% is the magic number: Finding the right amount of text in mobile apps - I studied the first screen of 25 popular iOS apps to determine how much text they use. The… - Jonathon Colman / filed under Typography, Visual Design

Flexible captioned slanted images - We have a lot of new layout tools at our disposal these days—flexbox is finally stable and interoperable,… - Eric Meyer / filed under HTML & CSS

Building consistent cross-platform interfaces - When building interfaces, it can be challenging to keep styles consistent across multiple platforms, devices, teams, and codebases.… - Danny Banks / filed under Design System, Design token

Full stack panic - You read a JavaScript newsletter and don't recognize half of what's in it. Or when you keep hearing… - Sean Fioritto / filed under Podcast

CSS Grid can be used to stack elements - I came across the article How to Stack Elements in CSS written by Sarah Dresner and learned that… - Stefan Judis / filed under CSS Grid Layout, HTML & CSS

CSS resize none on textarea is bad for UX - For whatever reason, people seem to be passionate about removing the textarea resize handle using the CSS resize:… - Catalin Rosu / filed under HTML & CSS, UX Design

Creating a clean & simple website with Webflow - n this series of 20 videos, I'll walk you through creating a website beforeyoushine.com. We will be creating… - Jan Losert / filed under Product Design

Figma on Figma: How we built our website design system - At Figma, we think design systems are a powerful tool to help democratize and empower entire organizations to… - Andrea Helmbolt / filed under Design System, Figma

Bend reality to your will: How your thoughts shape the world - Like most of us, Steve Jobs was a flawed human being. Yet, he remains one of the most… - Zat Rana / filed under Self Development

Talk less. Listen more. Here’s how - Lessons in the art of listening, from a C.I.A. agent, a focus group moderator and more. - Kate Murphy / filed under Self Development

My second year as a solo developer - Two years ago, I quit my developer job at Google to build my own software business. A year… - Michael Lynch / filed under Freelancing