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Weekly recap #8
Design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
Tensions in interface design - Here are some interface design qualities that can be taken too far. -
Lessons of Design - The musings of a designer on why he designs the way he does and what he's learned along the journey. -
Product design ↘
Design Psychology: 4 principles that empower designers - You might not know it yet, but you beautiful designer, have an almighty power in your hands: the power of understanding humans' needs. -
Onboarding tutorials vs. Contextual help - Tutorials interrupt users, don't necessarily improve task performance, and are quickly forgotten. Contextual help signals can avoid these pitfalls but require unintrusive ways to activate. -
Design engineering ↘
Design system breakdown: Select - Our audit uncovered many types of inputs used for selecting options including: forms, table sorting, filters, multi-selects, country selections, searchable selects, and more. -
Tools and resources ↘
Introducing Genius - A preview of your AI design companion in Figma. -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
The story of the Coca-Cola logo - The Coca-Cola logo is iconic for being universally recognisable. But the brand's ubiquitous script hasn't always looked the same. -
Productive procrastination - Learn to go with the flow of your motivation, fool yourself into being motivated by productively flipping between tasks to prevent fatigue from actively focusing too long on a single problem. -
Last but not least ↘
What does it mean to be strategic? - Being strategic means that the outcomes produced by our actions are not at odds with our intentions. -
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