HeyDesigner - Manrope: Sans-serif variable font

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

Highlights of the week

Build beautiful products together. Start 2022 with Harmony - Learn from organizations like Disney and Microsoft on how their design teams collaborate with the entire company at the Harmony Summit. - Zeplin  Sponsored

Manrope: Free sans-serif variable font - This font is a crossover of different font types: it is semi-condensed, semi-rounded, semi-geometric, semi-din, semi-grotesque. - Mirko Velimirovic / filed under Typography

(mac)OStalgia - Exploring my 2021 work-from-home routine from a nostalgic perspective. - Michael Feeney / filed under Inspiration

Product design

What eyes want - Understanding the eye-mind connection is critical to transcending distraction in design and creating focus. - Christopher Butler / filed under Product Design

Design for your content, as you do for your users - How an object-oriented approach helps you to gain a better understanding of your content and tailor it to your users’ needs. - Matthias Dittrich / filed under UX Design

▶ Diagnose and fix UX/UI problems - Ceara Crawshaw will teach us how to identify common problems in interfaces and how to solve them. - Jason Lengstorf / filed under UI Design, UX Design

Design engineering

Design system FAQ: adoption and implementation - Too much talking on which tool, too little on who’s using it. - Alberto Vitullo / filed under Design System

Why I love Style Dictionary, and why you should too - Style Dictionary is one of the very best tools I’ve ever encountered. It’s powerful, fun, and great for managing your design tokens. - Kristofer Selbekk / filed under Design System, Design token

Tools and resources

Useful UX guidelines, tools and resources - A meaningful user experience is what can set your site apart from others. But what makes an experience truly meaningful? - Cosima Mielke / filed under UX Design

Inspiration and creativity

Building my ideas in 2021 - A look back at what I built (or tried to) this year. - Jordan Singer / filed under Inspiration

There’s never been a better time to build websites - We’re closing in on the end of 2021 and I’m as excited now about building websites as I’ve been in ~25 years. - Simeon Griggs / filed under Product Development

Last but not least

Preparing designers for leadership - As design leaders, we need to set better clear expectations about what leadership is truly like. - Jon Daiello / filed under Leadership

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Cheers,
— Tamas

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