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Weekly recap #39
Design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
UX Hints: Product design knowledge - Stay on top of your design process with the bite-sized hints and cheat sheets about UX and Product design. -
State of HTML 2023 - While web developers tend to focus on JavaScript and CSS, none of what we do would be possible without HTML acting as the foundation. -
Product design ↘
Rebranding the Wise design system for everyone - There's a misconception that making a product accessible means sacrificing the visual design. -
The power of Brand Archetypes - The personification of the brand allows the public to emotionally connect to it. By using an archetype, the brand humanizes its values, history, and mission. -
Aligning your product team with effective calibration - "Calibrating" in the context of team dynamics means aligning a team's understanding, goals, and expectations. -
Design engineering ↘
The real value of tokens - And why I believe we are on the way toward a completely tokenized design future. -
Writing component specs - Having a standard component spec template for your team can be a huge help in delivering high quality, consistent, and accessible components. -
The design system ecosystem - Design systems are less about assets and their relationships to one another, but more about people and their relationships to one another. -
Tools and resources ↘
Iconbundler - Convert and optimize SVG icons to React, Vue, and Svelte components. -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
Creativity for all - Three core, non-negotiable tenets of the creative process. -
Last but not least ↘
We're still not innovating with AI-generated UI - We continue to not solve the same problems that we largely conjured out of no where. -
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