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Weekly recap #7
Design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
Things I learned about visual design - 1. Beauty and function are not different. Beauty is a function. And it is important. 2. Beauty is a result of strong relationships between elements ... -
The UX of payments - In this chapter on the UX of Banking, we'll cover the experiences of domestic payments. You'll see that they're largely slow and shallow. -
Product design ↘
Design process: Expectations vs Reality - In my practice over the years, I noticed three very distinct phases in my design process, and I found it extremely important that both the team process and the toolkit that I use support all three. -
Writing good interfaces - Good UX writing takes time. Time to simplify phrasing, make interactions clear, and craft every sentence in the product. -
Design engineering ↘
How Pinterest's design systems team measures adoption - It's hugely important for our team to know how much value we're providing, and for our leadership to understand whether the investment is paying off. -
My favourite 3 lines of CSS - The main reason I've written this post though, is to send people to it when they ask why I use .flow or use margin, but also, I hope you've seen how damn powerful CSS Custom Properties are. -
How to Favicon in 2023 - It's time to rethink how we cook a set of favicons for modern browsers and stop the icon generator madness. -
Tools and resources ↘
Atlas Icons - Open source free icons library, available in variable stroke SVG format, web font, Figma, React, Vue and Flutter ready to use packages. -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
What makes good visual design and how do we get more of it? - I had a really enjoyable exchange with Anthony Hobday, diving into visual design. -
Last but not least ↘
Designing for the Developers - With a Finnish sensibility, Linear's founders center software engineers in the development process. -
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