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

Highlights of the week

Get the most of built-in interactivity of coded UI components - Design with fully interactive elements that make prototypes feel like a real product. No coding required. Try Component Manager. - UXPin  Sponsored

Roboto Flex - Googles most popular font gets customizable with the launch of Roboto Flex. - Sarah Daily / filed under Typography

Everything new in Figma - Im completely blown away by the number of features the team shipped and the amount of thought put behind each one. - Joey Banks / filed under Figma

Product design

A product design process for the real world - Product designers have never had so many tools and techniques at our disposal to help us do our job. - Ted Goas / filed under Product Design

Novel user interface ideas are public goods - Since anyone can free-ride on the initial investment into interfaces, its hard for companies to justify spending much on R&D in this space. - Andy Matuschak / filed under UI Design

Onboarding a new leader onto your team - Many of the strongest leaders I know took 3-6 months to onboard successfully. And in some roles, I feel like I took years. - Ami Vora / filed under Product Management

Design engineering

Building a Design System from scratch - A deep dive into my experience building my own design system that documents my process of defining tokens, creating efficient components, and shipping them as a package. - Maxime Heckel / filed under Design System

Accessible color for design systems just got easier - Leonardo has evolved as both a design and engineering tool for creating accessible color palettes for design systems. - Nate Baldwin / filed under Design System

Web typography gets colorful - The technology opens up an entirely new vein of typographic creativity. - Ollie Williams / filed under Typography

Tools and resources

Markdoc: Markdown-based authoring framework - From personal blogs to massive documentation sites, Markdoc is a content authoring system that grows with you. - Stripe / filed under Apps & Tools

Inspiration and creativity

Mechanical watch - Interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works. - Bartosz Ciechanowski / filed under Product Design

Last but not least

Notes on “Taste” - Taste is a word I've been hearing a lot more lately, and I think it's because we've broadened its application from the world of the aesthetic to the world of the practical. - Brie Wolfson / filed under Creativity

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— Tamas

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