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Friday, December 18, 2020 / #creativity #design-systems #gmail #links #personal-sites #web

Simon Collison on nostalgia for the old web — a topic I will apparently never tire of
Laurel Schwulst on personal websites — lovely metaphors
Ethan Marcotte on design systems again — reducing the disconnect between design and code as much as possible sure seems ideal (which makes me think mainly of expanding browser dev tools to include design, though that’s still not a perfect fit)
Austin Kleon on that quantity vs. quality parable — good to know the original source
Austin Kleon on Gmail’s Schedule Send feature — how did I not know about this till now?

Tuesday, December 15, 2020 / #books #design #design-systems #figma #fonts #links #tools #ux

Taylor Palmer’s 2020 design tools survey results — ridiculously strong showing from Figma almost across the board (and for good reason, honestly)
Dorian Hart’s reviews of the fifty books he read in 2020 — I rather liked these
Ethan Marcotte on inconsistency in design systems — yes, this is a problem (one I’m looking forward to thinking more about as I pivot back to design)
Karl Wiegers on seven characteristics of meaningful user messages — this is good
TypeDrawers discussion on Monotype Baskerville in macOS — more particularly, on why the Deseret alphabet is one of the few supported Unicode ranges