Design and frontend links this week.

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Thinking is work - I’ve spoken with a lot of folks recently about a challenge imposed on us by increased remote work:… - Daniel Eden / filed under Product Management, Remote Working

The return of fancy tools - Technology is seeing a little return to complexity. - Tom MacWright / filed under Product Design

Your design system is actually a product — treat it like one - It seems that people are very often confusing a Design System with a component library. - Michael Henning / filed under Design System, Product Design

UI & UX micro-tips: Volume 5 - In this follow-up article I’ve brought you another selection of easy to put into practice UI & UX… - Marc Andrew / filed under UI Design, UX Design

▶ Low fidelity design: A guide to making your design process inclusive - In this talk, Daniel shares his approach to getting ideas down on paper and digitized. - Daniel Sauble / filed under Design Process

Making tables work: How good UX helps users make complex decisions - At the heart of almost all enterprise apps is a table. - Ceara Crawshaw / filed under UI Design, UX Design

Helsinki design system - The open-source design system for digital products and experiences with the City of Helsinki Design Language at its… - City of Helsinki / filed under Design System

Create a liquid hover effect with GSAP & SVG - With some Bézier curves, a little bit of maths, and a single SVG path, one can get rather… - George Francis / filed under Javascript, SVG

Visual testing in Storybook - Learn how to pinpoint UI bugs automatically. - Varun Vachhar / filed under React.js, UI Design

Unbounded possibility is bad for productivity - Being productive is hard; especially if you're working by yourself or working remotely. - Brian Schrader / filed under Productivity

Boring avatars - A tiny JavaScript React library that generates custom, SVG-based, round avatars from any username and color palette. - Hayk An, Josep Martins / filed under Apps & Tools

vanilla-extract: Zero-runtime stylesheets in TypeScript - Use TypeScript as your preprocessor. Write type‑safe, locally scoped classes, variables and themes, then generate static CSS files… - Matt Jones, Mark Dalgleish / filed under HTML & CSS

25 years of CSS - It was the morning of Tuesday, May 7th, 1996 and I was sitting in the Ambroisie conference room… - Eric Meyer / filed under HTML & CSS