HeyDesigner - The button cheat sheet

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

Highlights of the week

Learn with the best designers in tech - On Deck Design is a continuous community for designers who want to accelerate their careers through specialized tracks led by industry experts. - On Deck  Sponsored

The button cheat sheet - Do you need a button for your next project but you’re not sure about the right markup? - Manuel Matuzović / filed under HTML & CSS

The DesignOps starter kit - 10 essentials for starting a DesignOps practice. - Michelle Chin / filed under Design Ops

Product design

Redesigning design(ers) - Being a designer goes beyond training and technical skills. It is related to a way of acting, thinking, and seeing the world. - Jaakko Tammela / filed under Product Design

Spatial design - We’ve continued to expand the spectrum of what a Product Designer is and what their craft should be; from apps to websites, and virtual reality to audio-only, from physical products to the intangible. - Karl Koch / filed under Product Design

The case against heatmaps - Visualised aggregations of click activity are a low effort, low signal waste of time and best avoided in favour of actual research. - Oliver Palmer / filed under UX Design

Design engineering

Building a multi-select component - A foundational overview of how to build a responsive, adaptive, and accessible, multiselect component for sort and filter user experiences. - Adam Argyle / filed under HTML & CSS

“Dark mode” vs “inverted” - One thing we run into a fair amount in our design system work is the need to clarify the difference between “dark mode” and “components rendered on a dark background”. - Brad Frost / filed under Design System

Inspiration and creativity

Never forget a good idea again - Building habits around a simple three-step process will help you harness the power of your mind. - Jorge Arango / filed under Design Process

Research as understanding - Learning happens when you understand something that someone else already understands. Research happens when you understand something that nobody else understands yet. - Kanjun Qiu / filed under Learning

Last but not least

Every productivity thought I’ve ever had, as concisely as possible - I combed through several years of my private notes and through everything I published on productivity before and tried to summarize all of it in this post. - Alexey Guzey / filed under Productivity

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Cheers,
— Tamas

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