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Weekly recap #20
Design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
Ford logo presentation book, by Paul Rand - In March of 1966, Paul Rand finished his Ford logo presentation book. It was a proposal to Ford Motor Company for a new house mark. -
Degreeless Design - An opinionated and carefully curated collection of links, books, articles, and more that will help you speed boost your UX and Product Design career. -
Product design ↘
The problem with sticky menus and what to do instead - Designers use sticky menus (menus that stick to the edge of the viewport) to make them easy to access on long pages. But this fancy pattern hurts UX far more than it improves it. -
Designing for (realistic) attention - The average person is capable of reading 250 words per minute; few people choose to do so. If you get nothing else from this post, let it be that. -
Design engineering ↘
Scoped CSS is back - Scoped styles allow you to contain a set of styles within a single component on the page. You can use a .title selector that only works within a Card component, and a separate .title selector that only works in an Accordion. -
Tools and resources ↘
Accessible target sizes cheatsheet - Practical guidelines to prevent rage taps and rage clicks with accessible tap targets for icons, links and buttons on desktop and on mobile. With useful techniques and guidelines. -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
Making Material You - A short film series exploring how Google is imagining an adaptive, personal, and expressive future for design. -
5 Netflix documentaries that inspire you as designer - Documentaries like these will inspire you to become a better, more creative designer. -
Last but not least ↘
The reason we do low fidelity design - Wireframes, journey maps, site maps, diagrams, those are all thinking tools. They are not deliverables, and you should not treat them as such, unless you have a really valid reason to spend budget on them. -
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