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Weekly recap #18
Design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
Boosting UX with design KPIs - Design KPIs are key attributes that capture customers' experiences for top tasks that users frequently perform in a product. -
Stacks: Stack Overflow's design system - Stacks provides everything you need to quickly design, build, and ship coherent experiences across all of Stack Overflow. -
Product design ↘
A new future for the interface - This essay connects historic conceptions of interface and adaptable design with contemporary developments and visions. -
Best font for online reading: No single answer - Among high-legibility fonts, a study found 35% difference in reading speeds between the best and the worst. People read 11% slower for every 20 years they age. -
Design engineering ↘
Testing Figma components - Build a workflow to assure quality of design system assets. -
Web color is still broken - 7 years after Computer Color is Broken, the web is still doing color wrong. -
How (not) to grow a UI library while building a product - If we're building a plane while we're flying it, building a UI library is like building wings and fuselage before putting them together, but they must also fit all other planes. -
Tools and resources ↘
Designing in SwiftUI - SwiftUI is Apple's declarative UI framework. It's also a good design tool. Programmers have mixed opinions on it, but I've found it to be very helpful for prototyping and designing interfaces. -
Icon pixel preview - View the pixel fidelity render when designing your icons. -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
Lessons I learned from becoming a manager - It took me a while to figure out that the skills that made me a good IC don't necessarily make me a good manager. -
Last but not least ↘
Productivity-sniped by PARA - How I'm using the PARA method in Notion. -
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