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Weekly recap #2
Design and frontend links this week
Highlights of the week ↘
New logo and identity for Burger King - An irreverently bold typeface, Flame Sans evokes the natural, organic shapes of food. -
Fantasy UIs - Ongoing series of interviews on fantasy user interfaces. -
My stack will outlive yours - My stack requires no maintenance, has perfect Lighthouse scores, will never have any security vulnerability, is based on… -
Design ↘
Measuring design quality with heuristics - How do we measure design quality? This question has been asked at every company where I’ve led design,… -
Web design that focusses on text content is the best - I love text focussed website. There are no annoying consent forms, paywalls or popups. The reading experience is… -
A new model of the design process - Design, as most things in business, happens on three levels: strategic, tactical and operational. -
Designer as writer - We all know that design involves a codex of taste—evident to its practitioners yet largely unwritten. To explain… -
UI Development ↘
The Devil’s Albatross: An algorithmic layout technique - I'm fascinated with the concept of algorithmic layouts and got so used to building whole websites without using… -
You want overflow: auto, not overflow: scroll - Every now and then a web developer using a Mac discovers that their beautiful design is littered with… -
The art of building real-life components - It’s fairly possible to judge a component and say that it’s easy to implement it in HTML&CSS. I… -
Is progressive enhancement dead yet? - Progressive enhancement is Scary Mary™ to some but there is no need to cry or pass out. -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
100 tips for a better life - The other day I made an advice thread based on Putanumonit’s from last year! If you know a… -
10 powerful life skills for the new decade - Over the past few years, I’ve noticed certain skills in people I admire, from Paul Graham, Vitalik Buterin,… -
Plotting the year with a bullet journal - For those new to bullet journaling, it's a method of personal organization that includes schedules, reminders, to-dos, and… -
Last but not least ↘
No meetings, no deadlines, no full-time employees - I started Gumroad in 2011. In 2015, we reached a peak of 23 full-time employees. In 2016, after… -
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