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Weekly recap #28
Design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
4 design principles to avoid bad UX - The design principles emerged after watching 100s of people struggle to use the things I designed. Every struggle failed at least one principle. -
Free Faces - This website is a curated collection of typefaces that are available under a variety of free licences somewhere on the interwebs. -
Product design ↘
How to sell design - Writing about something is one of the best ways to learn about it. There's something magical that happens when you change the way of communicating from visual to vocal. -
Gestalt principles of design: Continuity - Elements that are arranged on a line or curve are perceived as more related than elements that are not. -
Design engineering ↘
Understanding SVG paths - If you've ever looked at the SVG code for an icon before, you might have noticed that they're usually made up of a bunch of path elements, each with a cryptic d attribute. -
Tools and resources ↘
Styles to Variables converter - This plugin takes your color styles and converts them into new Figma variables, reflecting their structure, names and descriptions. -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
Exploring UI patterns for visionOS - Ideas for how the gaze-based input method of visionOS could communicate fundamental interactions like dragging or entering text. -
Last but not least ↘
Design for the Web without Figma - People have been yelling about this for the past couple of days, and I’m going to offer my opinion on the matter, even though no one asked. -
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