Design and frontend links this week.

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The problem with UX/UI portfolios - How do portfolios fit when you are the only product designer in cross-disciplinary product team? - Mark Boulton / filed under Portfolio

Typography trends in 2021 - It's been said that at its core, design is simply a combination of typography and a grid. - Robert Gourley / filed under Typography

Open design systems repo - Discover all open design systems on the Figma Community - Design Systems / filed under Design System

How to measure design impact - How do you know what design's impact is on the product you're building? - Tanner Christensen / filed under Product Management

The 6 levels of UX maturity - UX maturity measures an organization’s desire and ability to successfully deliver user-centered design. - Kara Pernice, Sarah Gibbons, Kate Moran / filed under UX Design

A modern roadmap - During the past decade, roadmaps have become the pet peeve of many of us — mine too. - Cláudia Delgado / filed under Product Management

Beyond to-dos - When work is turned into tickets, our brains shut off. In ticket-land, the work is a given, and… - Ryan Singer / filed under Product Design

Multi-column sortable table experiment - This post expands on what I covered in my April 2021 post, Sortable table columns. - Adrian Roselli / filed under HTML & CSS

How to govern a design system that is continuously evolving - While many understand the benefits of a design system—creating a structure built for scalability—some worry that they’ll lose… - Wart Burggraaf / filed under Design System

The future of design tools - Video games are taking over the world and it's time for Design to take them seriously. - Andy Works / filed under Product Design

Introducing Astro: Ship less JavaScript - There's a simple secret to building a faster website — just ship less. - Fred K. Schott / filed under HTML & CSS

How to be effective - 1. Ask, "What needs to be done?" 2. Ask, "What is right for the enterprise?" 3. Develop action… - Mike Carbone / filed under Inspiration

Hourly rates are the worst - I know there are a million articles on the conceptual niceties of value based services. What I haven't… - Mark Johnson, Christine Sirois / filed under Project Management