Clear, simple examples of how to make animations in interfaces more meaningful and intentional, not just interesting to look at.

Josh's tutorials are so clear and helpful, even for someone who has written a lot of CSS. Always explains something in a way that I hadn't understood before. He makes some of the more obscure concepts more obvious with his examples.

A "reverse job posting" about what he's looking for in his next role. Really great writing on how to be aware of what you want in a job.

So impressed with the publishing platform they built specific to this. As a long-time WordPress user (including publishing to this site), this is beautiful to see such custom options vs. a sea of "Custom Field 2" key/value pairs for hacked-together CMSs I've designed and used in the past. Was always impressed with the Spotify blogs designs, but had no idea how deep they went as far as building their own custom CMS.

I love this, and love to see Cap's writing again. Had this exact feeling starting at the bank. While it was a lot of work and learning to manage designers, it wasn't as culturally frenetic at the bank as it was at Sonic. And I wasn't the main person people had to go to, so there was less pressure. Which was hard for my body and brain to adjust to, but overall way better for my mental health.

Love this emphasis in the article on practicality and ease of use. "Don’t be cute. A design system ultimately comes down to utility, and people are more likely to use it if it’s easy to understand."

Great writing on the missing pieces I feel when using Spotify vs. physical music. I've always felt Spotify wasn't made for my kind of music habits. So much focus on playlists, not albums. And only once-a-year stats to look at listening patterns. Would love to see more of those music fan features built in vs. so much emphasis on discovery via playlists content. Surely there is a way to serve both of those personas. Makes me miss Last.fm when I think about it.

This solves a lot of the things I've been frustrated with in learning auto-layout.

Excellent article from Julie Zhuo (Facebook) on what differentiates product thinking from design thinking and even product vision. So much good stuff in here to share with my team, as I've challenged them to develop their product mindset.