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Weekly recap #39
Design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
The case for ugly design - Designers are ditching traditional rules of beauty and ‘good’ design in favor of something more honest and compelling. -
Design systems: The BNARL model - Strategy framework to shape a healthy culture around design systems. -
Product design ↘
Quicker UX research synthesis - Without synthesizing your insights into higher-level themes, it’s hard to take action on your research. -
What’s the right font size in web design? - Some practical examples focused on body text in responsive web design. -
A beginner’s guide for product design interviews - Almost everything you need to know about cracking the interview. -
Design engineering ↘
Patterns vs. components in design systems - I’d like to introduce the idea of a different type of resource, which I’ll call a pattern. -
How I learnt to stop worrying and love animating the box model - This post is just some simple thoughts on animating a humble box as an accordion. -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
UI, UX & visual designers behind great games - A collection to follow and get inspired. -
How to get your creative work back on track - Artist and designer Coleen Baik shows us how to make a "What's Next" deck. -
Tools and resources ↘
Accessible palette - Create color systems with consistent lightness and contrast. -
Motion One: The Web Animations API for everyone - A new animation library by the creator of Framer Motion and Popmotion. -
Last but not least ↘
My favorite books a designer should read - Some of these are design books but many will make you a better designer without being about design… -
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