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Weekly recap #12
Design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
Modern iOS navigation patterns - This page collects all the familiar navigation patterns for structuring iOS apps, like drill-downs, modals, pyramids, sequences, and more. -
Button design tips to avoid common mistakes - Practical button design tips to avoid common usability and accessibility problems. -
Product design ↘
Design notes on the 2023 Wikipedia redesign - For the past few years I led the redesign of the Wikipedia desktop interface, which launched this past January. -
UX Strategy: Study guide - Use this collection of links to our articles and videos about UX visioning and strategy. -
Sub-second orientation - When a visitor encounters a web-page for the first time, they will ask and answer three questions within about one second. -
Design engineering ↘
Modern font stacks - System font stack CSS organized by typeface classification for every modern OS. -
The role of x-height in typefaces - Why are some typefaces harder to read than others at the same font-size? Well, it has a lot to do with x-height but of course it's a bit more complicated than that. -
Fix color contrast: Web accessibility for text and UI design - Learn what's crucial and required about color contrast for text and UI components. -
Tools and resources ↘
Type Design Resources - A growing, public, collaborative collection of type design resources. Everything from learning the basics to running your own foundry. -
The Figma to browser chasm - I've seen some amazing Figma files. Incredibly complex, sophisticated plugins that enhance Figma's native capabilities. -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
Leading successful product teams - I've been leading various successful design systems teams over the past six years and in this post I wanted to share a simple set of fundamental rules that has allowed those teams to get to the highest level of productivity while benefiting both the company and the team members. -
Keep it simple, but structured - Simplify your life so you can organize your time more easily. -
Last but not least ↘
2023 Design in Tech Report: Design and Artificial Intelligence - This year's report provides a primer on how to speak machine in the new age of pre-trained foundation models and so-called “large language model (LLM)” AIs. -
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