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Weekly recap #6
Design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
Why I’m losing faith in UX - For many years I believed in UX. The so-called "user experience" of a website, app, or other digital… -
Twitter’s got a new look - We wanted an art-first approach to our brand identity that encompassed emotion and expression. -
Design ↘
Brendan Dawes’ seven rules of creativity - In the course of sharing details of his creative process, seven key lessons emerged that could apply across… -
Applying white space in UI design - When whitespace is used well, the result is an interface that is harmonious, legible, and, above all, effective… -
Building complex Figma variants - When I started tackling variants with many properties, I realized that things can get exponentially more complex. -
Removing nested modals from digital products - Looking into the root problems and offering alternative UX patterns. -
UI Development ↘
Design system components, recipes, and snowflakes - “When should we make something a component?” is a question I’ve been fielding for years. -
Best practices for carousels - The performance impact of carousels and best practices for building performant carousels. -
Design tokens: What are they and how will they help you - Learn how design tokens make building products easier for both designers and developers. -
How to avoid layout shifts caused by web fonts - One of the biggest causes of layout shifts for my clients is late-loading web fonts, let's look at… -
Tools and resources ↘
Framer is dead: A love letter to my prototyping tool of choice - Framer X alienated designers who are afraid of programming while simultaneously increasing UX engineers’ fallacy of over-indexing on… -
Akar icons - Perfectly rounded icon library made for designers and developers. -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
Plan the sprint, not the project - So much of what we call agile is waterfall but with sprints. -
The big paradox of productivity - Being productive isn’t about doing more, it’s about making our current efforts count — maximising the impact of… -
▶ Futuristic interfaces in Figma - This is a tutorial of how to design these futuristic interfaces in Figma. -
Last but not least ↘
My playbook for shipping side projects - Here are the tips and strategies I've learned from shipping many side projects over the years, including my… -
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