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Atomic Design by Brad Frost Atomic Design details all that goes into creating and maintaining robust design systems, allowing you to roll out higher quality, more consistent UIs faster than ever before. This book introduces a methodology for thinking of our UIs as thoughtful hierarchies, discusses the qualities of effective pattern libraries, and showcases techniques to transform your team’s design and development workflow. Designing Systems Create design systems, not pages Atomic Design Methodology Atoms, molecules, organisms, templates, and pages Tools of the Trade Pattern Lab and the qualities of effective style guides The Atomic Workflow People, process, and making design systems happen Maintaining Design Systems Making design systems stand the test of time

Catalog of Refactoring Refactoring.Guru makes it easy for you to discover everything you need to know about refactoring, design patterns, SOLID principles, and other smart programming topics. See also: The Catalog of Refactoring The Catalog of Design Patterns

Site Structure | Web Style Guide 3 The success of the organization of your web site will be determined largely by how well your site’s information architecture matches your users’ expectations. A logical, consistently named site organization allows users to make successful predictions about where to find things. Figure 3.2 — Examples of the “Goldilocks problem” in getting the site structure “just right.” Too shallow a structure (left) forces menus to become too long. Too deep a structure (right) and users get frustrated as they dig down through many layers of menus. ...

Good design, much like anything, starts with understanding the basics. Applying the following design principles will help you avoid design disasters and allow you to communicate your key theme. You’ll find that it’s rare to see only one principle being used at a time as they all work in conjunction with each other. Alignment Repetition Contrast Proximity Balance Source: The 5 Basic Principles Of Design – Maddison Designs

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7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI The Rules: Light comes from the sky Black and white first Double your whitespace Learn the methods of overlaying text on images (see Part 2 ) Make text pop— and un-pop (see Part 2 ) Only use good fonts (see Part 2 ) Steal like an artist (see Part 2 )

With practice, this new mental map of color will become instinctive: you’ll likely find that it is much easier to create and manipulate color specified in HSL in your stylesheet code than hex or RGB. See also Three Ways You Should Be Using HSL Color In Your Site Today.

(via iPhone 6 Screens Demystified | PaintCode ) See also The Curious Case of iPhone 6+ 1080p Display

Not all technical debt is born the same, because A Mess is not a Technical Debt . (via TechnicalDebtQuadrant )

Foundation | The Most Advanced Responsive Front-end Framework from ZURB Responsive design gets a whole lot faster for users. It’s now crazy fast for designers and engineers to code and learn too.

The way to mitigate these unintended effects is to replace Personas with models that enable cohesive stories. These models are called Characters . What would make sense for the brain is a believable story which explains that purchase. This is what we can use Characters for. A Character is someone who: Has anxieties & motivations. Experiences purchase-progress events. Encounters purchase-progress situations. (via Replacing Personas With Characters — Medium )

Size templates for Twitter images. (via Baixe modelos de imagens para o Twitter )

“UI design starts with words.” (via How Do You Design Interaction? | Smashing Magazine )

(via Copa do Mundo e sua relação com Design. | Leandro Soler )

(via Logo da copa do Mundo no Brasil em 2014. Como e quando foi criado. | Matutando )

Codrops Tutorials In this section you will find in-depth how-tos involving common web development and web design techniques. Playground In this category you will find experiments, plugins and articles related to web development and programming. Here we present some new ideas and inspiration for solving problems and tackling challenges around web development. Blueprints The Blueprints are a collection of basic and minimal website concepts, components, plugins and layouts with minimal style for easy adaption and usage, or simply for inspiration. ...

Compare and contrast different design artefacts (sketch, wireframe, mockup, and prototype) in terms of their fidelity, speed, cost and use cases.

(via Why It’s Important to Sketch Before You Wireframe – UX Movement ) Where by “Code” you should really read “Prototype”.

uxdtoday: “When you don’t consider UX /UI in design: These pencils were withdrawn from US schools” – @raju

userexperiencehub: Design Process Diagram by Todd Warfel