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Weekly recap #30
Design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
My favorite Figma tips - I wanted to share a few tips and shortcuts that I've come to rely on as I work within Figma. -
How we redesigned the Chrome icon - I chatted with user experience interaction designer Elvin Hu and visual designer Thomas Messenger to go behind the scenes and learn more about how the Chrome icon was designed. -
Product design ↘
Behind the Design WWDC22 - To celebrate our 2022 Apple Design Award-winning apps and games, we've put together a series of interviews with their creators. -
Designing design workshops: Beyond dot-voting - I'm here to tell you that you don't always have to vote on stickies. It's not the only recipe in your creative workshop cookbook. -
Design engineering ↘
Subcomponents - Relinquish control, offer parts, and let implementers compose. -
Building Workbench: Timeline component - This article covers how my team and I collaborated to build the Timeline component. -
Use legend and fieldset - I understand the layout challenges can be frustrating, but swapping to an ARIA group role will result in a more inaccessible experience. -
Tools and resources ↘
Figma plugin: Propstar - Generate all possible instances for your components, including every combination of variants and component properties, all in a tidy labelled table. -
Humbleicons - A pack of 223 simple, neutral, carefully crafted icons that you can use in your personal and commercial projects. -
Inspiration ↘
Startup Handbook - This handbook helps tech startup founders improve their product, growth, recruiting, and fundraising. -
Last but not least ↘
Healthier communication patterns - Ever worked on a project where there were tons of stakeholders? You must have been frustrated by how long things take to get done. -
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