Day 200 / 2018 — Importance of Design QA, Explosion of Design Tools, Design Sprint 2.0 and more design and frontend links
Top design and frontend links from my daily curation at HeyDesigner
The importance of Design QA in digital product design →
In digital product design, the customer experience encompasses everything that the product team does — by Jess Eddy // filed in Design Process, Product Design
The Explosion of Design Tools Has Come at a Cost →
Sketch, Framer, Figma, Adobe XD: Design tools are proliferating, but they don’t always simplify the design process — by Ben Blumenfeld // filed in Apps & Tools
The Design Sprint 2.0 →
Design Sprint 2.0 is simply the most up-to-date, semi-official version of the Sprint, as of May 2018 — by InVision // filed in Design Sprint
What I Learned From Developing Branding for Airbnb, Dropbox and Thumbtack →
There are plenty of theories for why YouTube became one of the fastest growing startups in Silicon Valley history. Julie Supan says the reason is simple: “We sold the emotion.” — by First Round // filed in Branding
Going Colorblind: An Experiment in Empathy and Accessibility →
As an experience designers, we must continually practice putting the needs and desires of others above our own as we plan and architect experiences — by Sara Novak // filed in Accessibility
Should I Try to Use the IE Version of Grid Layout? Revisited for 2018 →
It is possible to use the -ms prefixed version to create a fallback, although it misses some features of the modern specification— by Rachel Andrew // filed in CSS Grid Layout, HTML & CSS
4 CSS Tricks I’ve Learnt the Hard Way →
Recently I wondered what it would take to build a full web-application without using any third-party well-known framework such as Bootstrap — by David Mellul // filed in HTML & CSS
How to Get Better at Writing CSS →
A lot of developers don’t want to do CSS development. I can do everything you want, but nah! No CSS — by Thomas Lombart // filed in HTML & CSS
Designers & Developers: What We Want Each Other to Know →
In the software world, developers ask: “How do designers spend their time? Do they care about feasibility? Why do 10 pixels matter?” On the design side we hear: “We need to solve user needs, not to build features haphazardly!” — by Esteban Pérez-Hemminger // filed in Collaboration, Product Development
Create Your Design System, Part 1: Typography →
This article is part of a series on design systems inspired by our (upcoming) library of web components — by Sebastiano Guerriero // filed in Design System
