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Weekly recap #26
Design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
Nike Design System - The Nike Design System was the culmination of years of partnership and close collaboration with Nike to unify its sprawling and disparate digital ecosystem into a single visual language. -
New W3C website deployed - Redesigning a website and content that has been building up since 1994 is a massive undertaking, so we chose to break it down into phases. -
Product design ↘
AI: First new UI paradigm in 60 years - AI is introducing the third user-interface paradigm in computing history, shifting to a new interaction mechanism where users tell the computer what they want, not how to do it. -
Gestalt principles of design: Proximity - When objects are placed near one another, the mind perceives them as a group. -
Design engineering ↘
Fit-to-Width Text - What if I will tell you how we could solve fit-to-width text with pure CSS without any hardcoded parameters? Curiously, scroll-driven animations will allow us to do just that. -
The new CSS - I've been writing CSS since the early 2000s, shortly after we ditched building web layouts with tables and spacer GIFs in favor of hacking our designs together with floats. -
Tools and resources ↘
Introducing Shortcut, Figma's new blog - Shortcut's mission is to tell stories about people, and the priorities, plans, and pivots they discover along the path of bringing new ideas to life. -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
archives.design - A digital archive of graphic design related items that are available on the Internet Archives. -
Uncommon but useful design terms - Some design terms have a useful meaning, but aren't in common use. Here's a collection of the terms I've come across. -
Last but not least ↘
The value of continuous research - Sadly, research is one of the practices that constantly gets questions about the value and the first to go when there is any reduction in the workforce, but they are crucial. -
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