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Weekly recap #5
Design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
Atomic design and Storybook - Atomic design is a mental model for thinking of user interfaces as an interconnected, hierarchical system of components. -
Stop brainstorming - Why brainstorming doesn’t work, and why to do nothing instead. -
Product design ↘
Wordle UX: Sometimes a game just feels good - How can we explain something so simple yet so popular? -
Six things to consider before changing fonts on a website - I pimped the type of Pimp my Type. Here I share what motivated me to do it, and what I paid attention to. -
Prove yourself wrong - Getting into the right mindset when looking for feedback will save your feelings and make for better designs. -
Design engineering ↘
The best design system is no system - To meet expanding needs, designers turn to design systems to streamline design with the hopes of providing value at lower cost and effort. -
Div divisiveness - The div is the most versatile and used element in HTML. It represents nothing, while allowing developers to manipulate it into almost anything by use of CSS, JavaScript and ARIA. -
Getting started with CSS cascade layers - Cascade layers introduce the new at-rule of @layer. The intent is to help CSS authors be more intentional about ordering the “layers” of CSS rules as a new method of cascade management. -
Tools and resources ↘
Base components - I’m no longer relying so heavily on base components to create published components. -
Accessibility checklist - This checklist uses The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) as a reference point. -
Last but not least ↘
The last design you’ll ever make - Designing from cradle to grave is no longer good enough. We need to postpone that grave as long as possible. -
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