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Weekly recap #16
Design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
Behind-the-Design: Meet Copilot - When the system is the product; on crafting the next generation of user experiences. -
Typographic size on the web - The process of establishing an appropriate font size for different elements is more complicated than it might seem at first. In the context of web design, it can be especially tricky to weigh all the factors involved for an ideal reader experience. -
Product design ↘
Creating a product vision - I've found that a strong product vision can point our entire team toward the future, and give us a map for how we're going to get there. -
Where novel visual styles come from - In software, the most common source of visual inspiration is other software. That is, designers copy other designers. But what if you want to introduce a new visual style? Here are the approaches you can use. -
Design engineering ↘
Why do they ignore my awesome design documentation? - In 2017 I wrote several tips on better design documentation. While all those tips still make sense, I realized there is a more significant characteristic, and it’s not what you may think. -
CSS text balancing with text-wrap:balance - Have you ever wished there is a native way in CSS to make two lines headlines consistent in the number of words per line? As a designer, I spot that a lot when dealing with varying content lengths while designing a website or a UI. -
Tools and resources ↘
Storybook 7.0 - Next-level component development and testing. I'm excited to announce Storybook 7, our first major release in over two years and by far our largest ever. -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in his own words - The online book featuring speeches, quotes, emails, and photographs from the Steve Jobs Archive. -
Last but not least ↘
GPT-4: We are in a major technological change - Yes, there has been much hype over the imagined powers and flaws of the new Large Language Models, but the recent advances indicate that there is a major transformation taking place that everyone needs to pay attention to. -
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