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

Highlights of the week

The future of design feedback - Go from design to build to publish without losing your mind in the process. We’ll save you time. You’ll save the day. - MarkUp  Sponsored

Shadow palette generator - In order to create lush, realistic shadows in CSS, we need to use multiple layers and colors. - Joshua Comeau / filed under Apps & Tools

What if phones were actually designed for hands? - Phones no longer fit in the hands they were made to be held and used by. How did that happen? - Christopher Butler / filed under Product Design

Product design

Why white looks bigger than black: The irradiation illusion - The unknown optical illusion every designer should know. - Gonçalo Dias / filed under Visual Design

Moving from brand strategy to visual identity - Perception of anything depends on the person watching, their experiences and knowledge: We see what we want to see. - Matti Tuominen / filed under Branding

Design engineering

Design systems are for user interfaces - A design system is a multi-faceted layer cake, and also operates as part of other layered systems within an organization. - Brad Frost / filed under Design System

DesignOps: Study guide - Use this collection of links to our articles and videos to learn about the components of DesignOps. - Kate Kaplan / filed under Design Ops

The gap: Enter the Design Engineer - They understand the designer’s output to codify, standardize and even automate the solution. - Egor Kloos / filed under Product Management

Tools and resources

tldraw: A tiny little drawing app - White-boarding application and an engine for applications that render React components onto a canvas interface. - Steve Ruiz / filed under Apps & Tools

Inspiration and creativity

Applying growth design and prototyping to yourself - How tiny experiments can guide you in your career. - David Hoang / filed under Career

One productivity system to rule them all - How I consolidated my own productivity system by trial and error. - Arturo Ríos / filed under Productivity

Last but not least

Poor thinkers vs. good thinkers - Poor thinking may be quick, but it leads to a flawed decision. Good thinking is hard, but it gives you less trouble in the future. - Budi Tanrim / filed under Inspiration

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— Tamas

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