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Weekly recap #45
Design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
Designing the perfect mobile navigation UX - When designing navigation on mobile, we don't have to rely on slide-in-menus or nested accordions. -
Open design systems repo - Discover all open design systems. -
Product design ↘
Why everything looks the same - How economic globalization, generational transition, and technology converge to flatten the consumer experience. -
Typographic hierarchies - In this article, Alma Hoffmann discusses six basic variables to establish a typographic hierarchy. -
Design engineering ↘
Should consistency be a goal of design systems? - It's becoming increasingly unfashionable to cite “consistency” as a goal for design systems. -
Brand expression in design systems: Icons and illustrations - Many companies have trouble finding the right balance between being on-brand, useful, and scalable. -
Tools and resources ↘
Using sections in Figma - Sections have a few visual design differences that make them standout from our frame counterparts. -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
The creative switch - The basic recipe for good ideas is really simple: Just create a lot of options and then pick the best one. -
Creating interface studies - Focused explorations to solve specific problems. -
Last but not least ↘
Why one web pioneer thinks it's time to reinvent the browser - Darin Fisher has been working on browsers since practically the beginning. And he's ready to finally build the one he's been waiting for. -
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