✏ Issue #506: Stark for macOS, Theatre.js, 20 Best New Sites, Lean UX Design, and more…

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Every month we publish this roundup of the best new websites we’ve found online in the previous four weeks. In September’s edition, there’s a strong emphasis on brand consistency, with sites adopting a rigorous approach to communicating their identity. There’s some stunning photography and bold pop-inspired colors. Enjoy!

Stark is one of the best tools available for analyzing accessibility and giving you a heads-up on what’s inclusive, and what’s an obstacle for users. Until now, it was available as a plugin for XD, Sketch, Figma, and Chrome, but the app has just launched for macOS, as a new flagship product for accessible design. You can join the beta now.

Fast Company has gathered together 30 of the world’s top designers and asked them for their design secrets. With advice ranging from specifics, like looking beyond the Bauhaus for inspiration; to the abstract, like designing as a chef cooks; to the practical, like hiring juniors; it’s a must-read article for anyone in the design industry.

Theatre.js is a modern JavaScript library built for animating elements on the web. It can animate the DOM, WebGL, and anything else you can access with JavaScript variables. There are baked-in tools to allow you to fine-tune your animations, and it works brilliantly with other JavaScript libraries like three.js or pixie.js.

Styling forms has been one of the toughest tasks in frontend development for years. When the best solution is a nasty hack, you know something’s wrong. In this practical guide, Michelle Barker introduces us to accent-color, one of the newest properties in CSS that eliminates the need for hacks by coloring user-agent inputs.

Punchlist is a great option for gathering opinions and collecting stakeholders’ sign-off. It creates an annotation layer over your webpage that is only visible to those you invite. Any comments or instructions can then be collected and sent to Trello, Asana, GitHub, Jira, and more. There’s a generous free forever plan perfect for freelancers.

Lean UX is considered to be one of the fastest, and most sustainable workflows when it comes to product development because it gets provable ideas in front of users quickly, so they can be validated or discarded. In this post, Adam Fard compares Lean UX to Agile and Waterfall methodologies and offers some helpful tips.

Design systems are ever-popular methods of creating consistent user interfaces. But in order to get the most out of them, you need to design them well. In this timely post, Eric Kim and Harpreet Sidhu discuss harnessing design systems expertly by understanding the unique set of requirements your project introduces to the mix.