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Weekly recap #42
Design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
Patreon, redesigned: A new brand identity built for, and with, creators - We're introducing our reimagined brand, including a new logo and wordmark; new approaches to color, photography, and typography; and a new app that brings it all together. -
UX vocabulary inflation - The user experience discipline suffers from constant reinvention of the terminology used to describe our concepts, leading to confusion, miscommunication, and rework. -
Product design ↘
Interviews about visual design - Designers don't talk about visual design enough. I interviewed some people and we only talked about visual design. -
Design engineering ↘
An anchored navbar solution - Revisiting a CSS trick I wrote about in 2022 and re-doing it using a new CSS feature. -
Tools and resources ↘
The constant tension between design tools and soft skills - As a designer, we're constantly pulled in two directions: towards learning new design tools and towards honing our soft skills. -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
Dan Mall's 10 principles for a worthy design career - 10 pieces of advice for tackling complex tasks, preventing burnout, and fostering continuous learning. -
Last but not least ↘
The secret formula for Apple's rounded corners - If you look purely at their form, Apple's products are all rounded rectangular slabs. -
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