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Weekly recap #49
Design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
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. -
UX maturity - In order for designers to do high-quality design work, they need to work at companies that truly understand design. -
Product design ↘
Spotify performance cards - Designing with empathy and meaning. Challenge the way you think and serve access constrained users with these cards. -
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. -
Tools and resources ↘
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. -
Design engineering ↘
Design systems documentation - Working at the intersection of content design and design systems, I'm often thinking about ways of improving design system 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. -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
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. -
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. -
Last but not least ↘
Foundational skills - Broadly applicable skills for digital creation. -
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