Jony Ive's first major design since leaving Apple

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

Highlights of the week

Learning design delivery from the world’s greatest architecture - Great architects provide their engineers with absolute clarity on exactly what to build. Read the latest from Zeplin on how product designers can do the same for developers. - Zeplin  Sponsored

Jony Ive’s first major design since leaving Apple isn’t what you’d expect - Ive spoke with Fast Company about how his design collective LoveFrom developed an intricate, organic logo mark and a new typeface called LoveFrom Serif. - Mark Wilson / filed under Product Design

Layout patterns - A collection of layout patterns built using modern CSS APIs that will help you build common interfaces such as cards, dynamic grid areas, and full-page layouts. - Google Developers / filed under HTML & CSS

Product design

Design principles and tactics: Why you need both - Making the case of the best companion for principles. - Arturo Ríos / filed under Product Design

Reimagining OKRs for designers and design teams - This article explores the OKR-based model for goal setting and reviews, specifically for UX teams. - Aviram Vijh / filed under Product Management

More obvious advanced search affordances - Every new element in a web page or app screen — label, button, navigation option — adds clutter. - Jorge Arango / filed under Information Architecture

Design engineering

▶ So you think you can build a dropdown? - Diving deep into the complexities of designing and building a fully-accessible dropdown menu. - Pedro Duarte / filed under Pedro Duarte / filed under UI Design

Tools and resources

Automating Figma - Automator has turned out to be one of the more complex things I’ve ever built given its general purpose nature and infinite possibilities. - Jordan Singer / filed under Figma

Inspiration and creativity

On making progress - Motivation is tricky – if your goal is too hard it leads to frustration; if it’s too easy it leads to boredom. - David Gasca / filed under Motivation

How learning works: Components, systems, and loops - There are a few interconnected and important concepts related to learning that come together in an interesting and foundational way. - Roman Kudryashov / filed under Learning

Last but not least

The shape of software - Last week I shipped a redesign of my personal website, a project that started in September and took nearly two months of working nights and weekends to finish. - Brian Lovin / filed under Product Development

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