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

Highlights of the week

No more hide-and-seek with components - Components can get lost in your design. In Zeplin, developers can instantly highlight all the components, so they know exactly what to build. - Zeplin  Sponsored

Google Fonts pairings - See our handpicked Google Fonts pairings in use, and start using them now in Figma. - Sarah Daily / filed under Typography

Declarative design systems - I think that there's a general feeling of frustration with the imperative approach to designing and developing — attempting to specify everything exactly up front. - Jeremy Keith / filed under Design System

Product design

How to develop product sense - Product sense is not something you need to be born with. It's a learned skill, just like any other PM skill. - Jules Walter / filed under Product Management

Spotify's embodiment of emotional design - In this article we will discuss how emotional design plays a key factor in Spotify's iconic, personalised experience, and what we can learn from it. - Jasmine Bilham / filed under UX Design

Paying off design debt - How to decide which Design Debt to fix and incorporate it into the roadmap without causing friction. - Alicja Suska / filed under Product Design

Design engineering

The case for design engineers - If I had to put myself into one of the buckets that constitute job titles, “Design Engineer” might be closest to my own sense of self-identification. - Jim Nielsen / filed under Product Development

How designers can help drive better engineering practices around user interfaces - Design leaders who want to improve visual design in products should spend as much time advocating for better UI and front end engineering practices as they spend focusing on practices within their team. - Jehad Affoneh / filed under UI Design

How to share research in design systems - In this post, we'll describe the needs we discovered in our meta-research. - Amy Hupe, Caroline Jarrett and Ignacia Orellana / filed under Design System

Tools and resources

Patterns - Accessibility resources from the international standards organization. - W3C / filed under Accessibility

AutoAnimate - A zero-config, drop-in animation utility that adds smooth transitions to your web app. - FormKit / filed under Animation

Inspiration and creativity

Apple Design Awards 2022 - The Apple Design Awards honor excellence in innovation, ingenuity, and technical achievement in app and game design. - Apple / filed under Inspiration

Last but not least

Making my calendar work for me - This calendar discipline gives me focused time to make progress on my goals, which are all about building better products. - Ami Vora / filed under Product Management

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