HeyDesigner - Design KPIs

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

Highlights of the week

Connect Figma and Storybook - Use Storybook Connect plugin to embed stories in your Figma files. It helps you compare implementation vs design specs to speed up handoff and UI review. - Chromatic  Sponsored

Boosting UX with design KPIs - Design KPIs are key attributes that capture customers' experiences for top tasks that users frequently perform in a product. - Vitaly Friedman / filed under UX Design

Stacks: Stack Overflow's design system - Stacks provides everything you need to quickly design, build, and ship coherent experiences across all of Stack Overflow. - Stack Overflow / filed under Design System

Product design

A new future for the interface - This essay connects historic conceptions of interface and adaptable design with contemporary developments and visions. - Liam Spradlin / filed under UI Design

Best font for online reading: No single answer - Among high-legibility fonts, a study found 35% difference in reading speeds between the best and the worst. People read 11% slower for every 20 years they age. - Jakob Nielsen / filed under Typography

Design engineering

Testing Figma components - Build a workflow to assure quality of design system assets. - Nathan Curtis / filed under Design System

Web color is still broken - 7 years after Computer Color is Broken, the web is still doing color wrong. - Hector Martin / filed under Coloring

How (not) to grow a UI library while building a product - If we're building a plane while we're flying it, building a UI library is like building wings and fuselage before putting them together, but they must also fit all other planes. - Rishat Muhametshin / filed under Design System

Tools and resources

Designing in SwiftUI - SwiftUI is Apple's declarative UI framework. It's also a good design tool. Programmers have mixed opinions on it, but I've found it to be very helpful for prototyping and designing interfaces. - Philip Davis / filed under UI Design

Inspiration and creativity

Lessons I learned from becoming a manager - It took me a while to figure out that the skills that made me a good IC don't necessarily make me a good manager. - Ami Vora / filed under Product Management

Last but not least

Productivity-sniped by PARA - How I'm using the PARA method in Notion. - Dave Rupert / filed under Productivity

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Cheers,
— Tamas

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