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Weekly recap #32
Design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
Observing the Double Diamond process in practice - The double diamond process was launched in 2004 by the British Design Council. -
Yelp’s new app icons and refreshed logo - An inside look at how we refreshed Yelp’s logo and app icons. -
Product design ↘
Designing the best possible solution - Most problems don’t have one single solution. -
Optimizing your own performance as a designer - Strategies to help find creative inner discipline, seek perfection, push beyond and demystify. -
UX principles that include cognitive accessibility - A cognitive perspective on UX design principles. -
Love robots + UI: The role of AI in the design industry - AI presents a set of possibilities for designers (still human) in making more informed, if not sophisticated decisions. -
Design engineering ↘
Aligning a button label vertically - Each font has something called leading which means the space between lines of text. -
Accessible overflow - One major tenet of web accessibility is that users have various strategies to operate your website. -
CSS nesting, specificity and you - Native CSS nesting is coming to browsers soon. -
Product management ↘
Designing a scalable design organization - Design is finally getting the spotlight it has deserved for a long time. -
Hacking is the opposite of marketing - Building maximally general technology, and then adding a final layer of interface, marketing, and narrative that makes it all seem specific. -
The presence framework for new remote managers - This article will provide a framework to face the fears that every manager doing remote management is likely having. -
Tools and resources ↘
Reasons we switched to Figma for icon design - We recently switched to Figma to design and manage our icons and wanted to share ten reasons why. -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
Walking as a productivity system - How walks create the foundation of Craig Mod’s creative work. -
Last but not least ↘
Introducing yourself without saying your title - As a general rule I have established for myself, I like to introduce myself as a “designer” in every meeting. -
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