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Weekly Recap #7
Highlights of the week ↘
UX 101: Norman Doors - Why people feel a mix of frustration and embarrassment when they can’t open the door. -
7 principles of icon design - Creating a high-quality icon family requires a thoughtful approach, a trained eye, a bit of iteration, and a… -
How to redesign, step by step guide - The process described in this article will work for various scopes of redesign — from a feature or… -
Design ↘
Design podcasts you’ll love to listen to - Hey folks, as an avid designer and podcast listener, I’ve bookmarked lots of design podcasts over the last… -
Design systems, agile, and industrialization - Hoo boy, a blog post rebounding a blog post which rebounds a blog post. Let me jump on… -
The design systems we swim in - Among the many (many, many) points Ursula Franklin makes in The Real World of Technology, she suggests that… -
Design’s unsexy middle bits - In How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Design Thinking, I wrote about how I learned to… -
Development ↘
CSS4 is a bad idea - Over on CSS-Tricks, Chris breaks down what some in the industry have said on the possibility that there… -
Old CSS, new CSS - I first got into web design/development in the late 90s, and only as I type this sentence do… -
▶ Designing with React - Thanks to React's component-oriented architecture, the React community has been naturally gravitating towards design systems as a way… -
Stacking cards effect - In this tutorial, we will take a look at how to create a stacking cards effect, using the… -
Custom styling form inputs with modern CSS features - It’s entirely possible to build custom checkboxes, radio buttons, and toggle switches these days, while staying semantic and… -
Tools and resources ↘
Neumorphism/Soft UI CSS shadow generator - CSS code generator that will help with colors, gradients and shadows to adapt this new design trend or… -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
DesignOps roles on the rise & the latest product design trends - When it comes to critiquing a beloved brand’s redesign or posing the question “should designers code?” Design Twitter… -
▶ It doesn’t have to be crazy at work with Jason Fried - With so much information, and gadgets and access and hustle and email and …and.. aren’t you overloaded at… -
Last but not least ↘
Steve Jobs’s real talent wasn’t design – it was seduction - In the 22 years I worked at Apple, I rarely saw anyone sell anything. As a sales executive… -
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