Design and frontend links this week.

Learning design delivery from the world’s greatest architecture - Great architects provide their engineers with absolute clarity on exactly what to build. Read the latest from Zeplin on how product designers can do the same for developers. - Zeplin  Sponsored

Jony Ive’s first major design since leaving Apple isn’t what you’d expect - Ive spoke with Fast Company about how his design collective LoveFrom developed an intricate, organic logo mark and a new typeface called LoveFrom Serif. - Mark Wilson / filed under Product Design

Layout patterns - A collection of layout patterns built using modern CSS APIs that will help you build common interfaces such as cards, dynamic grid areas, and full-page layouts. - Google Developers / filed under HTML & CSS

Design principles and tactics: Why you need both - Making the case of the best companion for principles. - Arturo Ríos / filed under Product Design

Reimagining OKRs for designers and design teams - This article explores the OKR-based model for goal setting and reviews, specifically for UX teams. - Aviram Vijh / filed under Product Management

More obvious advanced search affordances - Every new element in a web page or app screen — label, button, navigation option — adds clutter. - Jorge Arango / filed under Information Architecture

▶ So you think you can build a dropdown? - Diving deep into the complexities of designing and building a fully-accessible dropdown menu. - Pedro Duarte / filed under UI Design

Automating Figma - Automator has turned out to be one of the more complex things I’ve ever built given its general purpose nature and infinite possibilities. - Jordan Singer / filed under Figma

On making progress - Motivation is tricky – if your goal is too hard it leads to frustration; if it’s too easy it leads to boredom. - David Gasca / filed under Motivation

How learning works: Components, systems, and loops - There are a few interconnected and important concepts related to learning that come together in an interesting and foundational way. - Roman Kudryashov / filed under Learning

The shape of software - Last week I shipped a redesign of my personal website, a project that started in September and took nearly two months of working nights and weekends to finish. - Brian Lovin / filed under Product Development