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Weekly recap #38
Design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
UX pattern catalogue - A catalogue of design patterns gathered from my own observations and research. -
Color fonts arrives on Google Fonts - Customize color palettes, add gradients, and more with COLRv1. -
Product design ↘
How I prototype to communicate, not complicate, in Figma - 5 techniques for getting your message across without getting lost in the weeds. -
Enter Dynamic Island - A major hint at Apple's Extended Reality (XR) strategy. -
Iteration vs. Big splash - As designers, we need to know what problem we're trying to solve. And what problems we decide not to tackle too. -
Tools and resources ↘
Penpot: Open source design and prototyping platform - Penpot is web based and works with open web standards (SVG). -
Motion design in the browser - Theatre.js is a javascript animation library with a professional motion design toolset. -
Design engineering ↘
Button minimum width - A common mistake is to assume that a button width should be as equal to its content plus the horizontal padding. -
Should I use a button or a link? - One of the most seemingly contentious questions in web accessibility is whether or a button or link should be used when creating certain kinds of interactive elements. -
Inspiration ↘
Effortless personal productivity - I recently discovered a simple step-by-step process that significantly increased my personal productivity and made me happier along the way. -
Last but not least ↘
Be good-argument-driven, not data-driven - A weak argument founded on poorly-interpreted data is not better than a well-reasoned argument founded on observation and theory. -
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