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Weekly recap #11
Design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
The interaction design syllabus - A comprehensive list of interaction design concepts. -
Some simple ways to make content look good - Something non-designers understandably struggle with is how to make things look good. -
Product design ↘
Design-by-wire - How AI will shape designers, not replace them. -
Regenerative UX - As the recent tech industry downturn lays claim to untold thousands of UXers - designers, researchers, writers, and such - a pervasive sense of unease seems to be settling in across the industry. -
As a user, I don't want to - Task-oriented user stories lead to bad product decisions because they mix up value with cost. But they are easy to turn into inverted user stories — a tool for thinking bigger. -
Design engineering ↘
The design system mindset - System-minded folks operate differently than other product-minded folks. Again, different. Not better, not worse. Both perspectives are important and valuable. -
A taxonomy for alerts and notifications - Is it an Alert, Toast, Callout, Popup, Snackbar, or Notification? -
Balanced text wrapping is coming to CSS - The CSS Working Group has recently published a new draft of the CSS Text Module Level 4 specification that introduces a new property called text-wrap that allows you to control the wrapping of text in a more granular way. -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
The anatomy of a good design: An analysis of 4 sites - Visually pleasing designs use consistent type styles and spacing, create a visual hierarchy, and utilize an underlying grid structure. -
Last but not least ↘
Design in a command-and-control environments - More often than not we do great things not because we're told to, or get paid to do them, but because we feel the urge for these things to exist in the world. We want to execute our work in a specific way because quality is a sign of respect for what we do. -
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