Contrast: Accessibility Guide
Good overview of text contrast ratios and how they are measured and rated.
Pinterest Brand Identity
The new typeface looks great. Cool illustrations in this BrandNew post showing how they developed the alt version for UI.
Smoother & sharper shadows with layered box-shadows
Getting Deep into Shadows
Good overview of the design/theory of shadows usage in UI + various CSS implementation options and tradeoffs.
Strava Give Summit 3D Renders
Evolving the Google Identity
This is old, but still so impressive. I love the colors, the animation, the type family. So good.
Why the GOV.UK Design System team changed the input type for numbers
Early Spring App Store Rejections Sound the Alarm
Apple rejecting apps for permission priming on privacy opt-in. This seems extreme. Apple's language is pretty manipulative in the opposite direction in my opinion. Need to let apps explain themselves, as long as their explanation is truthful.
The birth of Inter: How the new open-source typeface used by GitHub and Mozilla came to be
Comprehensive anatomy of all ‘Design Thinking’ workshops
Type Scale
A tool for generating and previewing typography scale and type combinations.
The Inter typeface family
Considering using Inter for an upcoming project. Super impressed with this comprehensive guide and examples.
A Short History of the Geometric Sans
The 8-Point Grid
Using multiples of 8 to define dimensions, padding, and margin of elements.
Engineering Diablo III’s Damage Numbers
Ghost Buttons: UX Disaster or Effective Design?
Really well-researched analysis on effectiveness and visual weight of ghost buttons.
Typography in Design Systems
A typographic system that optimizes for guessability.
Building Appropriate Design Teams: Joel Califa, Product Designer at GitHub
Brick Index
A curated collection of the various maker's marks on bricks.
