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Weekly recap #48
Design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
Layout and grid in design systems - Layout and grid are concerned with how all the UI components hang together and behave responsively to create a whole, honest-to-goodness user interface. -
A complete guide to iconography - There aren't many people who love to design icons, and even fewer who are great at it. I wrote this guide to help you become one of those people. -
Product design ↘
5 visual treatments that improve accessibility - To design accessible visuals, account for color contrast, don't rely on color alone, make interactive elements easy to identify, provide useful alternative text for images, and test your visuals with real users. -
The iOS 16 design guidelines: An illustrated guide - In this article, we're going to cover basically everything you need to know to design an iPhone app following standard iOS 16 conventions and style. -
Design engineering ↘
An interactive guide to Flexbox - Flexbox is a remarkably powerful layout mode. When we truly understand how it works, we can build dynamic layouts that respond automatically, rearranging themselves as-needed. -
Design tokens misconceptions and theme tokens - Nowadays, there needs to be more clarity about design tokens, what they are, and how to manage and apply them in multiplatform design systems. -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
Functional perfectionism - I saw other people around me struggling to start anything for fear of doing it wrong. I wasn't like that. -
Last but not least ↘
Design Threads - What is good design? Who gets to decide? How are designers feeling right now? Are we tasked with too much? Are we doing enough? How is our role changing? Where does design go from here? -
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