HeyDesigner - Huey: Color palette generator

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

Highlights of the week

Get visual website feedback that’s actually actionable - A simple point-and-click interface will get you screenshots, plus browser and OS information to act upon with no more guessing. - BugHerd  Sponsored

Huey: Color palette generator - A two-dimensional palette generator for UI designers. - Zak Erving / filed under Coloring

Designing accordions: Best practices - Accordion samples, templates, and UX cases for a smooth experience. - Roman Kamushken / filed under UI Design

Product design

Crafting better shadows for interaction - Shadow doesn’t get as much love as other design elements, such as cool colour palettes or shapes, but it is vital in communicating interaction. - David Hall / filed under UI Design

Minimum Viable Feature: 4 reasons why you should scope down - The best in product are ruthless at scoping down to the Minimum Viable Feature. - Edo van Royen / filed under Product Management

How to write a mission statement for a UX team - A team mission statement is a concise articulation of the core purpose of a team and the value that the team provides to the rest of the organization. - Kate Kaplan / filed under Design Ops

Design engineering

Practical frontend philosophy - Frontend cannot be exempt from the rigor and sobriety of good software making. After all, frontend is software. - Jared Gorski / filed under Frontend

Designing with tokens for a flexible multi-brand design system - This process not only helps systemise our multi brand-elements, it also sets a precedent of turning design choices into design decisions. - Jason Bird / filed under Design System

Conditional border radius in CSS - How to use CSS comparison functions to create a conditional border radius. - Ahmad Shadeed / filed under HTML & CSS

Inspiration and creativity

You’re not that focused. Learn to ignore - Ignoring is a creative and professional skill. Focus cannot exist without ignoring things around you. - David Hoang / filed under Creativity

From designing interfaces to designing systems - Web designers began to think of websites as a network of components, arranged into different configurations and templates. - Jay Hoffmann / filed under Product Development

Tools and resources

A Figma plugin that automatically generates dark themes - This plugin generates a dark/light theme from your selection, works with external library styles and local styles. - Alex Dyakov / filed under Figma

OpenMoji - Open source emojis for designers, developers and everyone else. - HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd / filed under Design Resources

Last but not least

Manager by day, Designer by night - Let’s find out together how the product design discipline has evolved and how managing design is more of a coaching and mentoring exercise. - Jiri Mocicka / filed under Career

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— Tamas

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