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Weekly recap #7
Design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
Good News: A community for designers - Good News is a community for designers and other product people. We celebrate one another, share accomplishments, assume good intent, and reject cynicism. -
Chrome is changing its logo for the first time in eight years - See if you can spot the difference. -
Product design ↘
UX design is becoming a commodity - How an object-oriented UX approach helps to differentiate the UI and create memorable experiences. -
Inclusive design - Inclusive design describes methodologies to create products that understand and enable people of all backgrounds and abilities. -
A recipe for a design review that everyone will love - How to introduce a creative space free from feedback that bites. -
Design engineering ↘
Design system versioning - This post breaks down the pros and cons of versioning the whole library vs individual components. -
How to Favicon in 2022 - It’s time to rethink how we cook a set of favicons for modern browsers and stop the icon generator madness. -
Aspect ratio is great - I love it when a new CSS property lands in browsers that doesn’t have a steep learning curve and just works, with no fuss. -
Tools and resources ↘
▶ Detailed recreation of a macOS button in Figma - Watch me recreate a button from macOS in Figma. It turns out to be far more detailed than it seems at first. -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
Time boxing - Time-boxing improves how we feel, how much we achieve as individuals, and how much we achieve in the teams we work in. -
Embrace the grind - Sometimes problems can’t be solved by automation. If you’re willing to embrace the grind you’ll look like a magician. -
Good things - A personal compilation of good sensory things in life. -
Last but not least ↘
Unlearning perfectionism - There is a common idea that perfectionism is the need for perfect results. But this idea misses the deeper reality. -
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