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Weekly recap #4
Design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
Spotify Design: Refreshing our icon system - Learn how and why our design systems team refreshed the icons you see when you use Spotify. -
Consistency sin - If you’re a designer or developer, it’s your job to push back on the notion of consistency when it begins to affect a user’s experience. -
Product design ↘
Why introverts make exceptional designers and how leaders can support them - I still remember where I was and what I was doing when I first learned the true difference between introverted and extroverted people. -
A guide to becoming a senior product designer - Learn how career ladders work and how to create a career plan to climb the ladder. -
Design engineering ↘
Modern fluid typography using CSS clamp - In this article, we’ll explore fluid typography principles, use-cases, best practices, implementation with CSS clamp function and how to calculate the right parameters. -
Crafting component libraries: The elements - Component libraries enable interfaces to be defined through individual building blocks that can be composed together to form a greater whole. The net result is an adaptable visual language that unlocks greater consistency, efficiency, and scalability. -
Building a theme switch component - A foundational overview of how to build an adaptive and accessible theme switch component. -
Tools and resources ↘
The 60 hottest frontend tools of 2021 - A complete list of the most popular front-end tools in 2021, according to the Web Tools Weekly newsletter. See which resources made the list. -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
The art of storytelling for case studies - These tips will make your UX portfolio easier to write and easier to read. -
The side project prophecy - The more you talk about building your side project, the less likely you are to ship it. -
Last but not least ↘
Spatial web browsing - Adding spatial affordances to the experience of browsing the web. -
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