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Weekly recap #47
Design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
Design Principles - An open source collection of Design Principles and methods. -
My work with Spotify - I've been part of Spotify since day one. The lush green, the dull gray, the innovative user interface — that's me. -
Product design ↘
Good design - Sometimes we've been focusing on the fancy things too much and forgotten about the goal. -
Craft: Thoughts on elevating product quality - With the right team culture, process, tool, education, and incentives, achieving a higher level of product quality should be more attainable without dramatically impacting speed of execution. -
Command K Bars - Command bars are command-line bars that pop up in the middle of the screen when you hit a keyboard shortcut. -
Design engineering ↘
The design system guide - This guide covers all the essential topics for setting up the design system. -
Lost in customization - Design a flexible customization architecture for multi-brand design systems. -
Tips for design system component pages - Documentation, along with the actual Figma/Sketch/React components, forms the core of any design system. How can we make our documentation and component pages the best they can be? Here are a few tips I've picked up along the way. -
Tools and resources ↘
A design research framework - When I say design research I mean asking and answering questions in a systematic way in order to make more intentional and informed decisions about planning and creating new things and ways of doing things. -
Last but not least ↘
We are still duds - Tech product design as a field feels like an intellectual desert these days. No discourse, no research, no dreams. It's just eerily quiet. If I had started my career today, I most likely would have done something else. -
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