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Weekly recap #1
Design and frontend links this week
Highlights of the week ↘
Parametric color mixer - A color palette composer inspired by audio parametric equalizers. Create beautiful color palettes with a scientific precision. -
The benefit of creating a design portfolio - I’ve been actively updating my portfolio and felt a massive benefit from it. -
The field of UX design by 2030 - Imagine ringing in the year 2030 and the world as we know it has not yet ended. How… -
Design ↘
Why “good/bad” design guides aren’t always good for: Iconography - Something you can find on Instagram or design blogs across the web are examples of the “right” and… -
Building open-source design tools to improve Discord’s design workflow - With the release of the Figma plugin API last year, the design team at Discord saw an exciting… -
The lessons learnt creating a design system for BBC Online - BBC GEL is the design framework for the BBC and was one of the very first design frameworks… -
10 misconceptions on UX - Misconceptions stick. Here are our gems: 10 common misconceptions about design interface our designers often hear about. -
UI Development ↘
Hotwire: HTML over the wire - Hotwire is an alternative approach to building modern web applications without using much JavaScript by sending HTML instead… -
How to favicon in 2021 - It is time to rethink how we cook a set of favicons for modern browsers and stop the… -
Where to start with design tokens - Design tokens are an approach to storing style attributes like color, typography, and spacing in a pre-determined structure. -
Switching to Tailwind CSS - I really enjoy Tailwind. There was a learning curve as I tried to translate my existing CSS knowledge… -
Tools and resources ↘
AnimXYZ: The first composable CSS animation toolkit - AnimXYZ helps you create, customize, and compose animations for your website. -
Figma crash course by Pablo Stanley - Deep dives into powerful Figma features. We’ll skip the basics and get into the nitty-gritty of prototyping, auto-layout,… -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
“Better” is better than perfect - As I read more and more productivity blogs (with my newfound productivity powers), I started making little tweaks… -
How I stop thinking about work after work - Our personal practices can be thought of as a “ritual” — held sacred and done a particular way. -
SMART goals are not so smart: make a PACT instead - A system without a goal is like a marathon without a finish line. But a system with a… -
Last but not least ↘
Reasons you aren’t updating your personal site - This was the first year in many that I managed to regularly update and publish content on my… -
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