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Weekly recap #33
Design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
The 4 elements of an effective brand - Your brand is obviously more than just your logo mark and logotype. -
How I use Figma to craft better presentations - Guidelines for showcasing your strength as a visual storyteller. -
Product design ↘
Keeping it simple - Simplicity is usually the goal of good design. Simplicity is also one of the hardest virtues to inculcate in large product organisations at scale. -
2 quick tricks to make giving feedback easier - Over my career, I've had to work hard on giving people tough feedback. -
Growth design and the art of failing successfully - A four-step process for overcoming a failed design experiment. -
Design engineering ↘
How to research components and design patterns - We'll describe 2 challenges that we've encountered when doing research on the individual components and patterns in design systems. -
A simple carousel with a few lines of CSS - Using CSS is more straightforward, accessible, feels more natural and the browser support for scroll snap is great. -
The infinite marquee - A responsive looping marquee-style animation using HTML and CSS. -
Tools and resources ↘
Fast, composable, unstyled command menu - ⌘K is a command menu React component that can also be used as an accessible combobox. -
Inspiration ↘
I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo - As far as Dall-e goes, I think right now it's still very much in a “first iteration” phase for most bits and purposes. -
Last but not least ↘
Becoming an expert - Start by making something bad. Making something bad then iterating until it's good is way faster than making something good upfront. -
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