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Weekly recap #51
Design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
Apple launches Freeform - A powerful new app designed for creative brainstorming and collaboration. -
Branding predictions for 2023 - Five Base team members reveal which themes, trends, and developments they think will guide the world of branding through next year and beyond. -
Product design ↘
UX glossary - A collection of psychological biases, design principles and UX concepts that affect the product experience. -
My design principles - Christopher Butler says that “hiring for skills is mostly bogus. Hiring for soft skills is better. Hiring for principles is ideal”. I agree with him. Here are my principles, in case you want to understand the kind of designer I am. -
Design engineering ↘
Contrast is boring - Having sufficient contrast in your website is one of those things which are very important but still very boring to fix—especially if your site uses multiple background colours. -
Tools and resources ↘
Responsive components in Figma - The one adjustment that really can make a difference. -
Mastering Auto Layout in Figma - The 5 Auto Layout stumbling blocks you need to understand to master this feature once and for all. -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
Design takes time - Defining the identity of iA Presenter next to iA Writer was a three-year process that went hand-in-hand with the UI development. -
Last but not least ↘
The micromanager's dilemma - Nobody I've ever worked with likes micromanagement. Yet, on every team I've been on, there is at least one micromanager. How is this possible? -
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