HeyDesigner - Material Symbols

Hi Reader, these are my design and frontend picks this week.

Highlights of the week

There's a smarter way to map user journeys - That's why we built Flows in Zeplin. Easily connect published screens into a Flow, then add important actions, decisions, or branches using Shapes. - Zeplin  Sponsored

Introducing Material Symbols - Fine-tune weight, fill, optical size, and grade with the variable icon font, available on Google Fonts. - Sarah Daily / filed under Material Design

The slow but inevitable demise of UX Design - The spirit of UX is still around. It's just not evenly distributed. - Andy Budd / filed under UX Design

Product design

Minimal design principles - Minimalism in design has been engrained within my thinking ever since I was introduced to the work of Dieter Rams. - Carl Barenbrug / filed under Design Principles

Ego and design - Design work is so much healthier/better when you stop telling yourself that you're changing lives. - Robin Rendle / filed under Inspiration

Designers are spending too much time designing UI variations manually - Currently, the process of fine-tuning visual elements to find usable, balanced, beautiful variations of interface elements requires too much repetitive work. - Teisanu Tudor / filed under UI Design

Design engineering

Evaluating design system adoption using custom CSS - One of the more tedious parts of a design system team's job is auditing for component and token usage in live products. - Steve Dennis / filed under Design System

Around the artifacts of Design Systems - Like many things, a design system isn't ever a finished thing, it's a journey. How we go about that journey can affect the things we produce along the way. - Dan Donald / filed under Design System

Tools and resources

Fluid type scale calculator - Generate font size variables for a fluid type scale with CSS clamp. Grab the output CSS and drop it into any existing design system. - Aleksandr Hovhannisyan / filed under Typography

Inspiration and creativity

Managing people - I believe almost all first-time founders burn out their first employees as they learn how to manage groups of people. If this advice helps avoid a few cases, it's worth writing it down. - Andreas Klinger / filed under Product Management

The joy of small projects - When was the last time you completed a project? When was the last time you started a project? - Dominick Schroer / filed under Inspiration

Last but not least

So… this is a job? - The way we make things has evolved. We started out with our bare hands. Then we created tools and became craftsmen. - Ralph Ammer / filed under Product Design

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— Tamas

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