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

Highlights of the week

Chromatic: Automated workflows for Storybook - Chromatic automates gathering UI feedback, visual testing, and documentation, so developers can iterate faster with less manual work. - Chromatic  Sponsored

The new Rolling Stone logo - Few magazines have a visual presence as iconic as Rolling Stone's: outlandish, ornate, and memorable. - Jesse Ragan / filed under Logo Design

Color and Contrast: An interactive guide to color for designers - A comprehensive guide for exploring and learning about the theory, science, and perception of color and contrast. - Nate Baldwin / filed under Coloring

Product design

A beginner's guide to finding user needs - This book is about methods for understanding people you design for and about communicating what you learned. - Jan Dittrich / filed under UX Design

Designing a better back button UX - How to design a better back button UX and where to put those “Back” buttons in our interfaces. - Vitaly Friedman / filed under UX Design

The design execution gap - Developers don't want to own the UI design because they'd rather focus on programming but designers can't own the design implementation because it's too tightly coupled to complex front-end logic. - Patrick Morgan / filed under Product Design

Design engineering

Loading Disco - An alternative to the loading spinner. - Joe Bell / filed under UI Design

An introduction to constraint based design systems - Effective designs optimize for constraints. This applies to any form of design: architecture, engineering, software, product design, and so on. - Cole Peters / filed under Design System

Tools and resources

Alphredo: Alpha colors generator - Alphredo generates translucent colors looking the same as their opaque counterparts when placed against the same background. - Adam Przewoski / filed under Apps & Tools

hhhue - Curated collection of beautiful color palettes. Tons of beautiful color palettes to easily copy as HEX, RGB or HSL. - Sébastien Noël / filed under Coloring

Inspiration and creativity

Notable logos - A signpost to the Graphis logo archives, where a record’s kept for the likes of these, and many more. - David Airey / filed under Logo Design

Last but not least

8 mental model design heuristics - Rules of thumb for producing learnable designs. - Caleb Furlough / filed under Product Design

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— Tamas

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