Spotify Design: Refreshing our icon system

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

Highlights of the week

Build prototypes 10x faster with React UI components - Prototype with fully interactive components - the same devs build product with. Reach a higher level of fidelity. Design with UXPin Merge. - UXPin  Sponsored

Spotify Design: Refreshing our icon system - Learn how and why our design systems team refreshed the icons you see when you use Spotify. - Andreas Holmström, Rob Bartlett, Spotify Encore Team / filed under Icon Design

Consistency sin - If you’re a designer or developer, it’s your job to push back on the notion of consistency when it begins to affect a user’s experience. - Craig Hockenberry / filed under UI Design, UX Design

Product design

Why introverts make exceptional designers and how leaders can support them - I still remember where I was and what I was doing when I first learned the true difference between introverted and extroverted people. - Jeremy Bird / filed under Leadership

A guide to becoming a senior product designer - Learn how career ladders work and how to create a career plan to climb the ladder. - Aaron James / filed under Career

Design engineering

Modern fluid typography using CSS clamp - In this article, we’ll explore fluid typography principles, use-cases, best practices, implementation with CSS clamp function and how to calculate the right parameters. - Adrian Bece / filed under HTML & CSS, Typography

Crafting component libraries: The elements - Component libraries enable interfaces to be defined through individual building blocks that can be composed together to form a greater whole. The net result is an adaptable visual language that unlocks greater consistency, efficiency, and scalability. - Jon Yablonski / filed under UI Design

Building a theme switch component - A foundational overview of how to build an adaptive and accessible theme switch component. - Adam Argyle / filed under HTML & CSS

Tools and resources

The 60 hottest frontend tools of 2021 - A complete list of the most popular front-end tools in 2021, according to the Web Tools Weekly newsletter. See which resources made the list. - Louis Lazaris / filed under Frontend

Inspiration and creativity

The art of storytelling for case studies - These tips will make your UX portfolio easier to write and easier to read. - Ingrid Elias / filed under Storytelling

The side project prophecy - The more you talk about building your side project, the less likely you are to ship it. - Brian Lovin / filed under Inspiration

Last but not least

Spatial web browsing - Adding spatial affordances to the experience of browsing the web. - Maggie Appleton / filed under UX Design

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