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Week 50
Top design and frontend links this week.
Highlights of the week ↘
Vital UX skills that few designers have, and how to develop them - Recently, I have been asked over and over again by budding young designers which skills I look for… -
The state of UX in 2019 - We have seen quite a lot this year. After curating and sharing 2,239 links with 264,016 designers around… -
Design ↘
Why most redesigns fail - A case study on big name redesign fails and what you can learn from them -
You need a shape system - When designers express brand and hierarchy in UI, they’ll often turn to familiar systems of color, typography, and… -
My struggle with colors - Today, we spend most of our time drowsed in digital experiences. All products we come across today utilize… -
5 ways Facebook scales their design system - Product designer Jeff Smith shares insight, expert advice and actionable tips based on the design process at Facebook. -
Development ↘
A look at CSS resets in 2018 - All browsers ship with a set of default styles that are applied to every web page in what… -
Reluctant gatekeeping: the problem with full stack - Much of my career as a web designer has been spent, quite happily, working alongside programmers, engineers, people… -
The state of web browsers - Yesterday, Windows Central published a rumour that Microsoft is ditching its Edge browser, or more accurately put, to… -
A CSS Venn diagram - A few years ago I made a Venn diagram using floats and absolute positioning. It was fine. Nothing… -
Tools and resources ↘
Building better websites, faster using Webflow - I used to dread the question: “Can you show me the website you’re most proud of?” There was… - Sponsored
Contraste - Contraste is a simple app for checking the accessibility of text against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). -
Humaaans - Mix-&-match illustrations of people with a design library. -
Flare – a new vector design and animation tool - Flare offers powerful realtime vector design and animation for app and game designers alike. The primary goal of… -
Last but not least ↘
Six years with a distraction-free iphone - In 2012, I realized I had a problem. My iPhone made me twitchy. It called to me from… -
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