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Weekly recap #23
Design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
Google Fonts pairings - See our handpicked Google Fonts pairings in use, and start using them now in Figma. -
Declarative design systems - I think that there's a general feeling of frustration with the imperative approach to designing and developing — attempting to specify everything exactly up front. -
Product design ↘
How to develop product sense - Product sense is not something you need to be born with. It's a learned skill, just like any other PM skill. -
Spotify's embodiment of emotional design - In this article we will discuss how emotional design plays a key factor in Spotify's iconic, personalised experience, and what we can learn from it. -
Paying off design debt - How to decide which Design Debt to fix and incorporate it into the roadmap without causing friction. -
Design engineering ↘
The case for design engineers - If I had to put myself into one of the buckets that constitute job titles, “Design Engineer” might be closest to my own sense of self-identification. -
How designers can help drive better engineering practices around user interfaces - Design leaders who want to improve visual design in products should spend as much time advocating for better UI and front end engineering practices as they spend focusing on practices within their team. -
How to share research in design systems - In this post, we'll describe the needs we discovered in our meta-research. -
Tools and resources ↘
Patterns - Accessibility resources from the international standards organization. -
AutoAnimate - A zero-config, drop-in animation utility that adds smooth transitions to your web app. -
Inspiration ↘
Apple Design Awards 2022 - The Apple Design Awards honor excellence in innovation, ingenuity, and technical achievement in app and game design. -
Material icons: Sehee Lee - An interview with Senior Visual Designer leading icons and design systems for Google Fonts, Sehee Lee. -
Last but not least ↘
Making my calendar work for me - This calendar discipline gives me focused time to make progress on my goals, which are all about building better products. -
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