Chromatic: Automated workflows for Storybook - Chromatic automates gathering UI feedback, visual testing, and documentation, so developers can iterate faster with less manual work. - Sponsored
Weekly recap #34
Design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
The new Rolling Stone logo - Few magazines have a visual presence as iconic as Rolling Stone's: outlandish, ornate, and memorable. -
Color and Contrast: An interactive guide to color for designers - A comprehensive guide for exploring and learning about the theory, science, and perception of color and contrast. -
Product design ↘
A beginner's guide to finding user needs - This book is about methods for understanding people you design for and about communicating what you learned. -
Designing a better back button UX - How to design a better back button UX and where to put those “Back” buttons in our interfaces. -
The design execution gap - Developers don't want to own the UI design because they'd rather focus on programming but designers can't own the design implementation because it's too tightly coupled to complex front-end logic. -
Design engineering ↘
Loading Disco - An alternative to the loading spinner. -
An introduction to constraint based design systems - Effective designs optimize for constraints. This applies to any form of design: architecture, engineering, software, product design, and so on. -
Tools and resources ↘
Alphredo: Alpha colors generator - Alphredo generates translucent colors looking the same as their opaque counterparts when placed against the same background. -
hhhue - Curated collection of beautiful color palettes. Tons of beautiful color palettes to easily copy as HEX, RGB or HSL. -
Inspiration ↘
Notable logos - A signpost to the Graphis logo archives, where a record’s kept for the likes of these, and many more. -
Last but not least ↘
8 mental model design heuristics - Rules of thumb for producing learnable designs. -
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