Pick of The Week
The under-appreciated art of taking a break from design | Inside Design Blog
From pushing pixels to cooking steaks.
Overwhelmed by metrics and meetings, product designer Jacob Styburski shares his experience from taking a year-long break from designing to running a barbecue joint, and how it made him a better, more thoughtful designer.
The Best of The Rest
Make the case: how to get buy-in for building a design system
Making the first steps to more unified workflow.
We all know how beneficial design systems can be, but getting teams on board is often much harder than it should be, these practical steps might just be what you needed to finally get things off the ground.
Hamburger menu UX: too ubiquitous to fail? – UX Collective
We all love to hate it, but it'll probably still do the job.🤷♀️
Whether you're fan of the hamburger menu or not, its recognisably is undoubted, but UX designer Michael J. Fordham briefly explains when it really shines, and when it probably shouldn't be used.
Design With Accessibility in Mind: The POUR Methodology
Tackling problems, with a more inclusive framework.
While inclusivity and accessibility are often left until later in the design process, adopting this simple, yet powerful method can help you and your team produce products that benefit a broader range of people.
The Font Detectives | JSTOR Daily
“A font can tell you a lot of things, depending on the circumstances”
If you're a type aficionado, you'll be happy to know your skills aren't just great for identifying typefaces in websites and prints, but might be critical in weeding out fraudulent documents.
One More Thing
Fart Attack 🍑💨
The Chrome extension you didn't know you needed.
Tired of seeing your friends/colleagues leave their computers unlocked? This Chrome extension will teach them a valuable lesson - just sit back and enjoy the spectacle.