Design and frontend links this week.

Backlight: Collaborative design systems platform - Backlight is a collaborative platform empowering teams to build, ship, and scale great Design Systems. - Backlight  Sponsored

Open UI - The purpose of Open UI to the web platform is to allow web developers to style and extend built-in web UI controls. - Open UI / filed under Frontend

The ultimate guide to designing and testing MVPs - In all my time building products and working with startups, I have never found a more powerful, versatile tool than the MVP. - Paul Shustak / filed under MVP

Should you ever NOT listen to user feedback? - The difference between user feedback and user insights. - Jessica Tenuta / filed under Design Process

The craft in design - I spoke to many senior designers in 2022 to learn more about their career motivations. - Ruchin Shah / filed under Career

Alternatives to pagination on product-listing pages - Infinite loading and Show More buttons can provide smooth interaction when loading products. - Kate Moran / filed under UI Design

▶ System of systems - This talk (2018) maps the many connections and relationships we face when applying design systems at scale. - Nathan Curtis / filed under Design System

▶ Utopia: An approach to fluid responsive design - Instead of designing for x number of arbitrary breakpoints, we can design a system within which elements scale proportionally and fluidly. - James Gilyead and Trys Mudford / filed under Responsive Design

Say hello to selectmenu, a fully style-able select element - I want to introduce you to a new, experimental form control called selectmenu - Patrick Brosset / filed under HTML & CSS

Gist plugin for Figma - View component docs without leaving your working file. - Mike Wilson / filed under Figma

The skill learning curve - How I think about learning new skills as an adult, everything from sports to improv to cooking to art. - Aaron Hertzmann / filed under Learning

First principles: The building blocks of true knowledge - First-principles thinking is one of the best ways to reverse-engineer complicated problems and unleash creative possibility. - Shane Parrish / filed under Design Process

On disruption and complacency in design - A narrative lens towards more ambitious work that drives change where it actually matters. - Johan Liedgren / filed under Storytelling