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Weekly recap #32
Design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
Higher level design - High-level design means not limiting yourself to activities you do but rather outcomes you'd like to influence. -
The future of design systems is semantic - We dig into the decreasing gap between design and code, increasing semantics, and one of Figma's newest features: variables. -
Product design ↘
Good design is intentional - It's time we expand what it means to create more meaningful relationships between people and technology by considering the intentionality of the products we build. -
Accordions on desktop - While accordions can simplify long content pages and minimize scrolling, they diminish content visibility and increase interaction cost. -
Design engineering ↘
Complex animation curve - Introducing `linear()`, an easing function in CSS that interpolates linearly between its points, allowing you to recreate bounce and spring effects. -
Just normal web things - We've let ourselves get away from building websites that can do normal web things. -
Tools and resources ↘
Lean product design: A playbook - Creating a new product is an exciting process. You've dreamed up a killer idea, drafted some sketches and maybe even started to think about how you'd make money out of this world beating idea. -
OddContrast - In WCAG 2, contrast is a measure of the difference in perceived brightness between two colors, expressed as a ratio. -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
Rethinking window management - Window management is one of those areas I'm fascinated with because even after 50 years, nobody's fully cracked it yet. -
Taste - On subjectivity, gatekeeping, and the risk of leaving design industry terms like taste undefined. -
Last but not least ↘
Create slowly - Slow design is about embracing the time-consuming process of trial and error so we can figure out the most elegant, considered, and sustainable solution. -
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