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Weekly recap #43
Design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
Applying the 8 golden rules of UI Design - In this article, we'll discuss Shneiderman's eight golden rules, and supplement them with practical tips and examples. -
Write better error messages - When it comes to error handling, it truly is a team sport. -
Product design ↘
Designing a time input - I'll explain how to avoid the complexity of entering time in the first place. -
Usability heuristic frameworks: which one is right for you - Going beyond Nielsen's Usability Heuristics (with Infographic). -
Design engineering ↘
Challenges of multi-brand design systems - Your management needs to know about complexity, limitations, and time before you start. -
Design System failures - This is a short series about failures I've seen or made in the design system space. -
Blending modes - Do you just click different blending modes until it sort of looks right? Well, that probably won't change after you read this but at least you probably won't use Lighten or Darken again. -
Tools and resources ↘
Lucide: Beautiful and consistent icon toolkit - Open-source project and a fork of Feather Icons. -
Figma Autoname - Rename all your layers in one click. Thanks to AI. Open source. -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
How I find balance with creative work - Keeping the ideas flowing in spite of the 40-hour week and hustle culture grind. -
Last but not least ↘
Icons should be complementary - Text is always better - Always try to use only text to convey your designs. -
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