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Weekly recap #27
Design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
Heuristic evaluation workbook - Step-by-step instructions to systematically review your product to find potential usability and experience problems. -
The No Handoff method - While agile broke down barriers between development processes and business goals, the handoff between Product and Engineering teams still persists. -
Product design ↘
Gestalt principles of design: Similarity - When objects look similar to one another, the mind perceives them as a group or pattern. -
AI: The next chapter in design - AI is more than a product, it's a platform that will change how and what we design and who gets involved. -
Design engineering ↘
Design system metrics - Don't put in metrics just because having many of them on your dashboard will look fantastic. If it's not an actionable metric, it's a vanity metric. -
Beyond design systems for interfaces - Having a design system for your interfaces is typically not enough to create cohesive and harmonious experiences. -
Tools and resources ↘
Flowbite Icons: Free and open-source SVG icons - A collection of 437 free and open-source SVG icons based on solid and outline styles with React and Figma support. -
Everything new in Figma - I've been in my old home, San Francisco, for the past few days to attend Figma's largest-ever Config design conference. -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
The rise of the design founder - When you are designing, you're creating a desired outcome, and there is no place better to do that than at the creation stage of a company. -
Last but not least ↘
Organized chaos - A lot of time and energy goes into removing chaos. But too much structure and predictability can hinder growth and innovation. -
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