Design and frontend links this week

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Left-side vertical navigation on desktop: Scalable, responsive, and easy to scan - Vertical navigation is a good fit for broad or growing IAs, but takes up more space than horizontal… - Page Laubheimer / filed under Information Architecture, UI Design

Material You: The next stage for Material Design - A radical new way to think about design. Material You will transform design for Android, for Google, and… - Material Design / filed under Material Design, Product Design

Better in black: Rethinking our most important buttons - Based on our research on accessibility, we’re making significant changes to the buttons you see across the Spotify… - Spotify Encore Team / filed under Accessibility, UI Design

Frustrating design patterns: Mega-dropdown hover menus - Do we need mega-dropdown hover menus in 2021? Probably not. Let’s explore things to keep in mind when… - Vitaly Friedman / filed under UX Design

The product management of a design system - One of the most rewarding experiences I’ve had during my time as a Product Manager at Autodesk has… - Jack James / filed under Design System, Product Management

The new responsive: Web design in a component-driven world - Controlling macro and micro layout in a new era of responsive web design. - Una Kravets / filed under Responsive Design

Making disabled buttons more inclusive - There are lots of use cases where a disabled button makes a lot of sense, and we’ll get… - Sandrina Pereira / filed under HTML & CSS

Variant-driven components - Variants are an excellent way to express how a component could look. It allows us to separate our… - Pedro Duarte / filed under Design System

Figma tips - A plugin that helps you up your design game in Figma by watching short tutorial videos about designing… - Rogie King / filed under Figma

Learn CSS - An evergreen CSS course and reference to level up your web styling expertise. - Google Developers / filed under HTML & CSS

Iconoir: The definitive open source icons library - Iconoir is one of the biggest open source libraries with currently 914 SVG icons. - Luca Burgio / filed under Icon Set

The little book of accessibility - This is a little book of quips, tips, affirmations, and truths that have helped me shape the BBC’s… - Gareth Ford Williams / filed under Accessibility

The new 3D Apple arriving at WWDC - I have been talking with hundreds of people across the industry and have discovered that the changes coming… - Robert Scoble / filed under VR