Design and frontend links this week.

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Disabled buttons don’t have to suck - Three alternative solutions other than just disabling buttons - Justine Win / filed under UI Design

Pillars of digital product design - Software today is ubiquitous—it’s everywhere you look. - Kyle Turman / filed under Product Design

Why does a design look good? - Visually aesthetic designs use consistent typography, establish a clear hierarchy, utilize a refined color palette, and align to… - Sarah Gibbons / filed under Visual Design

Good design is science, not art - Although it probably helps to be a little artistic. - Codey Albers / filed under Product Design

How to enhance your design with the gestalt principles of proximity - According to gestalt psychology, we need to organize what we see to make sense of the world. - Lukas Oppermann / filed under Design Principles

Building a design system at a startup - How to build a design system at a fast-moving startup and still leverage all the benefits a design… - Filip Stollar / filed under Design System

System fonts don’t have to be ugly - Make your site faster and more environmentally-friendly by taking a system-fonts-first approach - Iain Bean / filed under Typography

The power of composition with CSS variables - I stumbled upon this pattern of composing CSS partial values for my HSLA colors, assign them to variables. - Maxime Heckel / filed under HTML & CSS

Mini apps - A web developer's exploration into mini apps—apps that are built with web technologies but that do not run… - Thomas Steiner / filed under Product Development

How to set up a writing practice for your design team - Even if you don’t have any writers. - Becky Hirsch / filed under Copywriting

Advice for aspiring designers - Everyone’s path will look different, and we each face challenges and goals specific to who we are and… - Jon Yablonski / filed under Inspiration

The future of group messaging - An analysis of modern messaging, and the next evolutionary steps. - Jarren Horrocks / filed under Case Study

Escape bias - The biggest threat to great design is bias - Robin Rendle / filed under Product Design