HeyDesigner - Favorite Figma tips

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

Highlights of the week

Product research so simple, you'll never skip it again - The fastest way to capture high-quality feedback on questions, marketing copy, designs and Figma prototypes using tasks and video. - Ballpark  Sponsored

My favorite Figma tips - I wanted to share a few tips and shortcuts that I've come to rely on as I work within Figma. - Joey Banks / filed under Figma

How we redesigned the Chrome icon - I chatted with user experience interaction designer Elvin Hu and visual designer Thomas Messenger to go behind the scenes and learn more about how the Chrome icon was designed. - Joshua Cruz / filed under Logo Design

Product design

Behind the Design WWDC22 - To celebrate our 2022 Apple Design Award-winning apps and games, we've put together a series of interviews with their creators. - Apple / filed under Product Design

Designing design workshops: Beyond dot-voting - I'm here to tell you that you don't always have to vote on stickies. It's not the only recipe in your creative workshop cookbook. - Dan Brown / filed under Design Process

Design engineering

Subcomponents - Relinquish control, offer parts, and let implementers compose. - Nathan Curtis / filed under Design System

Building Workbench: Timeline component - This article covers how my team and I collaborated to build the Timeline component. - Josh Cusick / filed under Design System

Use legend and fieldset - I understand the layout challenges can be frustrating, but swapping to an ARIA group role will result in a more inaccessible experience. - Adrian Roselli / filed under HTML & CSS

Tools and resources

Figma plugin: Propstar - Generate all possible instances for your components, including every combination of variants and component properties, all in a tidy labelled table. - Henrique Gusso / filed under Figma

Humbleicons - A pack of 223 simple, neutral, carefully crafted icons that you can use in your personal and commercial projects. - Jiří Zralý / filed under Icon Set

Inspiration and creativity

Startup Handbook - This handbook helps tech startup founders improve their product, growth, recruiting, and fundraising. - Julian Shapiro / filed under Product Management

Last but not least

Healthier communication patterns - Ever worked on a project where there were tons of stakeholders? You must have been frustrated by how long things take to get done. - Tim Casasola / filed under Product Management

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Cheers,
— Tamas

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