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Weekly recap #43
Design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
The button cheat sheet - Do you need a button for your next project but you’re not sure about the right markup? -
The DesignOps starter kit - 10 essentials for starting a DesignOps practice. -
Product design ↘
Redesigning design(ers) - Being a designer goes beyond training and technical skills. It is related to a way of acting, thinking, and seeing the world. -
Spatial design - We’ve continued to expand the spectrum of what a Product Designer is and what their craft should be; from apps to websites, and virtual reality to audio-only, from physical products to the intangible. -
The case against heatmaps - Visualised aggregations of click activity are a low effort, low signal waste of time and best avoided in favour of actual research. -
Design engineering ↘
Building a multi-select component - A foundational overview of how to build a responsive, adaptive, and accessible, multiselect component for sort and filter user experiences. -
“Dark mode” vs “inverted” - One thing we run into a fair amount in our design system work is the need to clarify the difference between “dark mode” and “components rendered on a dark background”. -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
Never forget a good idea again - Building habits around a simple three-step process will help you harness the power of your mind. -
Research as understanding - Learning happens when you understand something that someone else already understands. Research happens when you understand something that nobody else understands yet. -
Last but not least ↘
Every productivity thought I’ve ever had, as concisely as possible - I combed through several years of my private notes and through everything I published on productivity before and tried to summarize all of it in this post. -
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