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Weekly recap #29
Design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
UX analysis: Apple Maps vs Google Maps - I often ponder why I typically use Google Maps, given how much I love Apple, and how easy it is to access on my iPhone. -
Themeable design systems - Very rarely is exactly one design system created to serve exactly one product that expresses exactly one design language. -
Product design ↘
Perfect portfolio - How to make the perfect portfolio and four other cheat codes. -
Designing a better pricing page - Usability studies show that users often rely on the lawn mower pattern when exploring feature comparison tables. -
Where's the button? - Designing for mode confusion. -
Design engineering ↘
Design a scalable design system - Atomize your components with the Marie Kondo style, and speed up the growth of your Design System. -
The CSS behind Figma - While learning how to build a Figma plugin, I stumbled upon a few interesting usages of Flexbox and Grid in Figma. -
Avoiding image layout shifts - aspect-ratio vs width and height attributes. -
Inspiration ↘
The history of user interfaces - A user interface is the space where interactions between humans and machines occur. -
Optimism shapes reality - Our optimism and resolve have immense influence in what we accomplish, both at a micro task-by-task level, and when summed up, what we can do over a lifetime. -
Last but not least ↘
Creating delight: 90% “how”, 10% “what” - I often hear the definition of delight get conflated with “surprise,” usually in terms of product functionality adding something unexpectedly fun. -
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