Design and frontend links this week.

Create compelling digital experiences through design - Gain firsthand experience researching, brainstorming, prototyping, and user testing while building your portfolio. - The New School  Sponsored

Frustrating design patterns: Disabled buttons - How can we make disabled buttons more inclusive? - Vitaly Friedman / filed under UI Design, UX Design

The state of mobile first and desktop first - I will explore with you what each method means, and I will try to discover and see if it’s still relevant for today. - Ahmad Shadeed / filed under HTML & CSS

User-centered design system resources - How to go beyond asset libraries and build systems for people. - Runi Goswami / filed under Design System

Graphic designers have always loved minimalism. But at what cost? - In always pushing less is more, we risk losing the diversity of aesthetic experience. - Jarrett Fuller / filed under Graphic Design

UX vs. Service Design - Ultimately, you need strong UX and service design to create and deliver successful experiences. - Sarah Gibbons / filed under UX Design

Reviewing the Safari redesign in iOS 15 - The most noticeable change is a major redesign of the core UI in Safari. - Jonas Downey / filed under UI Design

Accessible contrast ratios and A-levels explained - Your guide to understanding and making use of the ratios that determine your accessible contrast. - Team Stark / filed under Accessibility

Don’t use custom CSS mouse cursors - I believe that letting CSS load a custom cursor was a mistake. - Eric Bailey / filed under HTML & CSS

The world of CSS transforms - Like so many things in CSS, the transform property is surprisingly remarkable. - Joshua Comeau / filed under HTML & CSS

In the Margin: All things design process - A hub exploring how designers work today, what we can improve, and how we can create better design outcomes. - Abstract / filed under Design Process

The three-or-four-hours rule for getting creative work done - You almost certainly can’t consistently do the kind of work that demands serious mental focus for more than about three or four hours a day. - Oliver Burkeman / filed under Creativity, Productivity

Tokyo 1964 Olympics identity - Celebrating the legacy of Kamekura Yusaku’s iconic Tokyo 1964 Olympics identity - Dalia Dawood / filed under Branding

An interview with Elliot Jay Stocks - Elliot Jay Stocks is a UK-based designer, musician, writer, & speaker. - Adam Morse / filed under Interview