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Weekly recap #38
Design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
Designing empty states in complex applications - Empty states provide opportunities for designers to communicate system status. -
The future of CSS: Cascade Layers - Let’s take a look at what these Cascade Layers are, and how we can use them to our benefit. -
Product design ↘
Document as part of your process - Work to make your work visible. Make it part of your process. -
System thinking for design systems - We put “system” in the name, but have we really look this from a system perspective? -
Writing design - Thinking about design systems as vocabularies for shared languages. -
Mastering the basics of icon design - Learn icon design basics in Adobe Illustrator from French Graphic Designer Adrien Coquet. -
Design engineering ↘
I changed my mind about Tailwind CSS - So what’s the deal with Tailwind CSS and why did I change my mind? -
Designing beautiful shadows in CSS - Transforming typical box-shadows into beautiful, life-like ones. -
Grainy gradients - Browse through Dribbble or Behance, and you’ll find designers using a simple technique to add texture to an image: noise. -
A visual guide to React rendering - When does a React component re-render? -
Tools and resources ↘
Doodle ipsum - The lorem ipsum of illustrations. Just customize your doodles and grab the code. -
Basic pattern repository - A collection of hand-coded SVG patterns, ready to be used in inline SVG or however you like. -
Mechanic: Turn your design rules into design tools - An open source framework that makes it easy to create web-based design tools. -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
The flow state: How to get in the zone and stay there - The lack of focus is becoming a global epidemic. -
The power of pen and paper sketching - Paper sketches force our imagination to fill in the gaps. -
Last but not least ↘
Learning and being wrong - Discovering you’re wrong means you’ve learned something. -
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