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Weekly recap #1
Design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
Designing a new Outlook experience - Outlook's key design challenge is that of many heritage products: how do you chart a path forward that modernizes a beloved product, while also honoring its legacy and maintaining familiarity for the millions of people who rely on it? -
10 non-design books that made me a better designer - Design insights don't have to come from design books. -
Product design ↘
Designing the best possible solution - Our job as digital creators is to identify the trade-offs and constraints that will enable us to select the best possible solution for any given problem. -
How interfaces change with frequency of use - Some software (e.g. a calendar) is used every day, and some software (e.g. a marketing website) is used once and then never again. Here are some ways interface design changes if the interface is used more often. -
Design engineering ↘
Designing a colour system - This article is my take on multi-brand colour systems that support light and dark modes with minimum effort. It is all about organizing, naming and choosing the right colour values for the system to work. -
How I name Design Tokens and Components - A brief, but hopefully effective, walk through my process of creating names for my components and all three levels of Design Tokens. -
Tools and resources ↘
Ways to use AI in product design today - Existing and future use-cases for AI in web and product design. -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
Reading Design - Reading Design is an online archive of critical writing about design. The idea is to embrace the whole of design, from architecture and urbanism to product, fashion, graphics and beyond. -
Last but not least ↘
When machines change art - New art-making technologies change art in consistent ways, and studying the past helps us understand how things will change in the future. -
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