Design and frontend links this week.

Gather UI feedback in one place - Chromatic automates gathering UI feedback, visual testing, and documentation, so developers can iterate faster with less manual work. - Chromatic  Sponsored

Visual design exercises - Here's a list of visual design exercises you can use to practice or improve your visual design skills. These are meant to challenge your skills, not teach you them in the first place. - Anthony Hobday / filed under Visual Design

UX maturity - In order for designers to do high-quality design work, they need to work at companies that truly understand design. - Matej Latin / filed under UI Design

Spotify performance cards - Designing with empathy and meaning. Challenge the way you think and serve access constrained users with these cards. - Oskar Westerberg / filed under Product Design

How to draw ideas - Great ideas are hard to find. Drawing makes it a lot easier. And fun. How? In a creative process drawing can play four different roles. - Ralph Ammer / filed under Drawing

kickstartDS: Open Source starter kit for Design Systems - A low-code framework and comprehensive component library enabling digital teams to create consistent and brand compliant web frontends super efficiently. - kickstartDS / filed under Design System

Design systems documentation - Working at the intersection of content design and design systems, I'm often thinking about ways of improving design system documentation. - Amy Hupe / filed under Design Documentation

Designing a Utopian layout grid - A layout grid is a useful aid for a designer organising information in a given space. Although these grids have their roots in print design, where dimensions are fixed, fluid layout grids still have some utility in responsive design. - James Gilyead / filed under HTML & CSS

How to flex the soft power of design - Remember all those “seat at the table” design articles and conversations? How could you miss them? They were inescapable for a while. Frankly, the argument never resonated with me. - Patrick Morgan / filed under Product Management

What makes me a designer? - To me, being a designer means I have a strong urge to design absolutely everything around me. It's as simple as that. - Tobias van Schneider / filed under Inspiration

Foundational skills - Broadly applicable skills for digital creation. - Tyler Angert / filed under Product Design