Design and frontend links this week.

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Gridless design - Let’s think outside of the grid and allow other guidelines to provide a comprehensive layout. - Donnie D'Amato / filed under UI Design

The current state of homepage UX - For this analysis we’ve summarized the 6,100+ Homepage usability performance scores. - Sally Collins / filed under UX Design

The elements of product design - A model explaining product design as a stack of decisions built on top of a stack of knowledge. - Jamie Mill / filed under Product Design

WTF is a product designer? - It seems like every week I see a conversation on Twitter defining what design is or isn’t. - David Hoang / filed under Product Design

Design systems don't kill creativity - Digital design education often focuses on processes, technologies, and tools, but students are left to learn design fundamentals independently, and many choose not to. - Andy Clarke / filed under Design System, Product Design

Frustrating design patterns: Broken filters - Never freeze the UI on a single input, provide text input fallback and never auto-scroll users on a single input. - Vitaly Friedman / filed under UI Design

Growing (and shrinking) pains: Holistic spacing and visual density - How to fix a broken spacing system. - Runi Goswami / filed under UI Design

How to get a pixel-perfect, linearly scaled UI - Dynamically scaling CSS values based on the viewport width is hardly a new topic. - Georgi Nikoloff / filed under HTML & CSS

Inspecting sizes - I’ve often had a designer, looking over a site I’m developing, say something like "Can you move that five pixels to the left?". - Michelle Barker / filed under HTML & CSS

CSS Gap - Safari now supports the gap property for flex layout in CSS. - Jim Nielsen / filed under HTML & CSS

How to make your home and workspace fuel your creativity - Insights on the process of finding and reconfiguring our homes and workspaces to inspire our artistic lives. - Stephanie Diamond / filed under Inspiration

Microsoft’s new emojis - Why we refreshed our 1800+ emoji to support the new landscape of work. - Microsoft Design / filed under Design System

The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday - I set myself a simple rule: I shall write some code everyday before or after work. - Kishore Nallan / filed under Inspiration