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Weekly recap #14
Highlights of the week ↘
Font size is useless; let’s fix it - What happens when you set "font_size": 32 in your favorite editor? I would’ve told you anyway, but I’m… -
Organising design work in Figma - For digital designers who want to organise their working files to improve clarity and collaboration within and across… -
100 things I know about design - There are three great design themes: making something beautiful, making something easier, and making something possible. -
Design ↘
Design starts with story - Sometimes we can articulate the story with ease. Other times we struggle to utter even the basics: subject,… -
Let your headings do the hard work - The most common improvement I tell teams to make is to tell the user what they need to… -
Designing with a fluid space palette - Space is the ultimate fundamental; the most ubiquitous “thing” there is. In fact our brains generally perceive space… -
Five tips for PMs working with designers - Ask a Product Designer what their job is and what you'll hear is likely very close to what… -
UI Development ↘
Dark mode in 5 minutes, with inverted lightness variables - The trick I’m going to show you will make anyone who knows enough about color cringe but it… -
In praise of the unambiguous click menu - I still remember my excitement when I learned how to build a hover-triggered submenu with just CSS. -
Building a magical 3D button - I had a neat realization recently: Buttons are the “killer feature” of the web. -
Container Queries are actually coming - After years of asking and memes, we’re finally getting container queries and they will transform UI design, just… -
Tools and resources ↘
Free font alternatives: The ultimate guide - This is not the most popular view among designers, but I’m totally in favor of using free fonts,… -
Heroicons v1.0 - Over 450+ free icons in two styles, official React and Vue libraries, and Figma assets. -
Website carbon calculator - How is your website impacting the planet? The internet consumes a lot of electricity. 416.2TWh per year to… -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
Figma’s interactive components were not designed for this - Personally, I’m a big fan of making stuff with the wrong tools. -
Show up and practice - If I wait until everything is finished or perfect, I certainly will never publish my portfolio or write… -
The anatomy of a design trend - A discussion of the theory of design trends with sample trends in Industrial Design, Interface Design, and User… -
Last but not least ↘
Other ways – Sameness is the enemy of creativity - And yet so much of what we make is eventually swept up into the event horizon of uniformity. -
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