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How to build a strategy, not a roadmap

Crafting an effective design system strategy.

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Creative practice for UX designers

You can’t spell flowchart without art.

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Recording, editing and integrating a sound for a click event

Who remembers the times when music or other nasty sounds randomly started playing as soon as you visited a website?

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Figma Crash Course 2024 (video)

A beginner’s guide to all the major 2024 functionality in Figma: frames, basic shapes and properties, text and text styling, named styles, colors, plugins, the pen tool/vector editing, autolayout and...

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Chunk Icons

A set of 600 consistent & commonly-needed glyphs, all tailored to look nice and sharp at 16px.

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AI art is the new stock image

AI images are quick and easy to make. They look great at first sight, and they quickly replaced the use of stock images. But, like everything cheap and easy, they come with downsides.

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Developer Experience Book

Developer Experience (DX) is all about how easily and effectively developers can get things done. Learn how to improve your DX and why it matters in this book.

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Freelancing: three values that change everything

As for someone who’s been freelancing for the past 15 years I have a couple of thoughts on what it takes to be successful as a freelancer.

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A spectrum of perspectives: Design, Product, and Business

To align with product, research must recognize and balance design and business perspectives.

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If you want to be creative, you can’t be certain

Embracing ambiguity as a superpower.

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Utopia SCSS library

This library includes functions & mixins to calculate and generate Utopian type and space scales directly in SCSS.

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What is beauty?

Why is beauty so important? It leads us to truth and goodness, says Immanuel Kant. How?

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Play at work

Sometimes play is being on my own with high autonomy and low consequences, sometimes it’s getting to choose new and fun technologies, but where play is most valuable is when it involves other people.

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Five future roles for designers

I asked students to envision their jobs twenty-five years from now. What will their work look like in 2049? What will they be doing?

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Draw on scroll

To create a line drawn on scroll effect, we render a line down the page. Then, use a clip-path to show only part of it. As the user scrolls, we translate the clip-path down the page.

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Knowledge Management for the win

Knowledge management (KM) is the process of organizing, creating, using, and sharing collective knowledge within an organization.

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What is our design intention?

Tech’s not-so-perfect outcomes: Let’s design a brighter tomorrow.

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Herman Miller identity guidelines

At Herman Miller, we believe in the power of design to make things better for people.

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The complex but awesome CSS border-image property

The CSS border-image property is one of those properties you undoubtedly know exists but may not have ever reached for.

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How to nail product market fit with clear Jobs-To-Be-Done

Learn how Letterboxd could significantly improve their app onboarding and retention by focusing on their customers’ jobs-to-be-done.

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