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Weekly recap #17
Design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
Introducing Material Symbols - Fine-tune weight, fill, optical size, and grade with the variable icon font, available on Google Fonts. -
The slow but inevitable demise of UX Design - The spirit of UX is still around. It's just not evenly distributed. -
Product design ↘
Minimal design principles - Minimalism in design has been engrained within my thinking ever since I was introduced to the work of Dieter Rams. -
Ego and design - Design work is so much healthier/better when you stop telling yourself that you're changing lives. -
Designers are spending too much time designing UI variations manually - Currently, the process of fine-tuning visual elements to find usable, balanced, beautiful variations of interface elements requires too much repetitive work. -
Design engineering ↘
Evaluating design system adoption using custom CSS - One of the more tedious parts of a design system team's job is auditing for component and token usage in live products. -
Around the artifacts of Design Systems - Like many things, a design system isn't ever a finished thing, it's a journey. How we go about that journey can affect the things we produce along the way. -
Tools and resources ↘
Fluid type scale calculator - Generate font size variables for a fluid type scale with CSS clamp. Grab the output CSS and drop it into any existing design system. -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
Managing people - I believe almost all first-time founders burn out their first employees as they learn how to manage groups of people. If this advice helps avoid a few cases, it's worth writing it down. -
The joy of small projects - When was the last time you completed a project? When was the last time you started a project? -
Last but not least ↘
So… this is a job? - The way we make things has evolved. We started out with our bare hands. Then we created tools and became craftsmen. -
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