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Weekly recap #9
Design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
Netflix brand system by Koto Studio - We evolved their previous system by connecting iconography, typography, and illustration to roots within the cinematic universe, referencing effects and techniques reminiscent of the film-making process. -
Questions for an interface design critique - In any interface there might be hundreds of things to improve. With enough experience you will notice many of them immediately. If you're not there yet, hopefully these questions can help you. -
Product design ↘
The three faces of design research - I didn't know much about design research when I began doing it nearly 10 years ago. -
“Make it easier” is not a product strategy - With just a little bit of research, you can turn “make it easier” into a real north star, and validation into useful research. -
Design engineering ↘
Component specifications - What to include, where it goes, and why it matters more now. -
Design systems in the time of AI - It's been absolutely wild to witness the rise of the new crop of AI tools. This moment feels equally exciting and terrifying, but given humans' track record of driving promising technologies off the rails, I'm erring on the side of terrified until (hopefully) proven wrong. -
Buttons, links, and focus - Knowing when to use a button or link is important, and there's some great guidance out there. Here's another way to work out when to use which. -
Tools and resources ↘
Iconoir: Your new default library - Iconoir is one of the biggest open source icons libraries. Icons available in SVG format, Font, React and React Native libraries, Figma and Framer. -
Last but not least ↘
Will AI and Chat GPT take my design job? - I don't have the answers, but I would like to offer a perspective. When we look at history, there are moments of immense change, a tipping point. -
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