Design and frontend links this week.

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Typography Manual - A set of rules that will improve your typography 10x. - Mike Mai / filed under Typography

UI Goodies - A curated directory of design resources and tools to help designers and developers create better user interfaces. Discover the best UI kits, icons, templates, and more. - Jess Eddy / filed under Design Resources

Crafting a design leadership portfolio - One of the top questions I get asked is what a portfolio for a manager should look like. Unsurprisingly, the answer is like any design answer: it depends. - David Hoang / filed under Portfolio

Good interaction and visual design - This book lists the qualities of good interaction and visual design. Because interaction and visual design overlap, so does the book. - Anthony Hobday / filed under Interaction Design, Visual Design

Good design requires persuasion - A good design might be persuasive on its own; the notion that a thing “just works” implies that its function, however novel, is an intuitive leap from its form. - Christopher Butler / filed under Product Design

Starting design work in a spreadsheet - In the early phases of a project a spreadsheet can be a more useful design tool than Figma. - Chris How / filed under Design Process

Maintaining icon libraries in Design Systems - Icons are one of the core elements of interface design. A designer needs to have a well-organized library of icons that can be easily updated and extended. - Sepeda Rafael / filed under Design System

It’s time to learn OKLCH color - If you’re anything like me, looking at all the things happening in CSS lately involving color, you’re probably a bit overwhelmed. - Keith J. Grant / filed under HTML & CSS

▶ Hot takes on the web - Watch Rich Harris, Svelte's creator, share insights on frontend trends, the edge, and the web. - Rich Harris / filed under Frontend

How ChatGPT works: a deep dive - How does a Large Language Model like ChatGPT actually work? Well, they are both amazingly simple and exceedingly complex at the same time. - Dan Hollick / filed under Artificial Intelligence

On brand - When you get branding right, it's a multiplier on everything you do. It's the salt that intensifies flavor, a wind at your back. - Adam Stoddard / filed under Branding

9 bogus reasons why some designers claim UX Research is a waste - Designers who don't include research can harm the UX industry. - Bas Wallet / filed under UX Design