Dan's design links

Simple brief, complex executions: UX Motion Designer Ade shares his journey on bringing 2022 Wrapped's data stories to life.

Design handoffs are inefficient and painful. They cause frustration, friction and a lot of back and forth. Can we avoid them altogether? Of course we can! Let’s see how to do just that.

How can we make disabled buttons more inclusive? When do they work well, and when do they fail on us? And finally, when do we actually need them, and how can we avoid them? Let’s find out.

Slack’s accessibility team recently launched a series of changes to make navigating around Slack more reliable and efficient for keyboard-only and screen reader users. While our accessibility had significantly improved over the last few years, we were still hearing from blind and low-vision users that moving around the interface felt disorienting and noisy. One user […]

What is Juice in software development. What is Game Feel & how it can it be used in non-game software. How software can fulfil emotional requirements. How to create software with soul. Examples of Juice on the web.

A new typeface from Shantell Martin

An in-depth course on images for the web.

How can we make disabled buttons more inclusive? When do they work well, and when do they fail on us? And finally, when do we actually need them, and how can we avoid them? Let’s find out.

The Gestalt team tells us how they used Figma’s REST API to create FigStats, a dashboard for visualizing component usage.

Meet design mentors from over 40 countries for portfolio review, career advice, mock interviews or leadership advice — all in this global community.

Support right-to-left languages like Arabic and Hebrew by reversing your interface as needed to match the reading direction of the related scripts.

Figma Community plugin - ⭐️ SimpleFlow makes it easy to create native FigJam connector inside Figma file, have fun! To use: Open SimpleFlow pluginClick on the button to copy the connector elementPaste it into the canvas and edit it! Feature: 👉 Automatically update the position 👉 Add extra label on the connector 👉 Custom...

Design systems are not pattern libraries, and abandoning them for "experimental" AI won't free us from constraints.

The idea of “foundations” is one of the biggest threats to creating a design system people use

The WCAG contrast requirements are flawed. Here's what a new approach could mean for data visualizations.

A strategy to help ease some of the pain and confusion when deprecating unwanted components from your Figma design system.

Customise this plugin template to make a handy design toolkit with useful automations and links for you and your team.

What is the best size for a design system team? Which profiles do you need? What skills should you look for? Everything you need to know to build the perfect design system team is right in this article!

An Open Source collection of Design Principles and methods

We’re altering the way we handle text in Figma. Join me on the journey we took to get there — through type history and into the modern times.

Intuit’s Framework for a Scaled Design System

Like code, prove Figma shows what and changes as you expect

Test assets using criteria organized in checklists

Design system documentation has been maturing at a rapid pace over the last five years. how we document is an opportunity for us to stop, reflect and figure out the biggest challenges that face us in how we document and grow our design systems. The ‘how we document’ survey was conducted from Sep to Oct 2021 across social media, industry Slack channels and in emails to design system professionals. https://www.zeroheight.com/how-we-document

Interplay connects and automates design and code workflows to align your entire product team around a single source of truth

Might be good to have a glossery like this for our design system as well.

I found a pretty reliable way to create flexible, responsive custom tables in Figma. I’ll do a video walkthrough at some point, but if you want to play… https://t.co/cibZI3Uk4g— Buzz Usborne (@buzzusborne) April 6, 2022

Use right-to-left (RTL) and bidirectional controls in Figma and FigJam Before you start Who can use this feature Supported on any plan Available in Figma design and FigJam files U...

The three Boolean options in presentation mode correspond to three query string parameters you can add to any Figma prototype URL: `hotspot-hints=0` disables the blue highlights that show when you click a non-interactive area `show-proto-sidebar=0` hides the sidebar list of all prototypes in the document `hide-ui=1 ` hides the Figma UI around the prototype (this overrides show-proto-sidebar, even if you set that to 1)