Dan's design links

Specify helps you unify your brand identity by collecting, storing and distributing design tokens and assets for your design system — automatically.

A little thing like capitalization can be a big deal

What we learned from 15 days of prototypes

Amy Hupe prepares a four bird roast of tasty treats so we can learn how the needs of many different types of users can be served through careful implementation of components within a design system.

Browse the world’s UI components to discover techniques that work

In this article, we’ll take a look at the best ways to handle colors in CSS today, some tips for using them in a design system, and what we can expect from our colors in the not-too-distant future.

How we designed a color system with hand-picked, vibrant colors that also met standards for accessibility and contrast.

Easy-to-follow guidelines can make accessibility part of your everyday design process

It’s more important than ever to consider mental health while designing.

An open-source checklist to help you plan, build and grow your design system.

We've opened up the music box and described how we've shaped the tool to suit our needs and culture at Spotify.

Monzo are building a smart bank on your smartphone and we need your help to create the bank of the future.

90-minute Design course: Accessible design is a design process that specifically considers the needs of people with disabilities. In this course, you’ll learn about the standards in place to guide designers in creating experiences that are accessible to all users as well as techniques to help bring your projects up to those standards.

by Nick Babich

Modal dialogs interrupt users and demand an action. They are appropriate when user’s attention needs to be directed toward important information.

How do you logically construct well-founded UIs as a designer instead of relying on your gut feeling?

Dribbbleshots just might be the hotbed of questionable dashboards. Striking visuals, little context, and no research: all recipes for mediocrity. Mediocrity won’t do. We’ll pursue greatness. And in that pursuit, we’ll cover research, decluttering, and data visualization.

Geri Reid, UI and UX Designer, London

Access Guide is a friendly introduction to digital accessibility based on WCAG 2.1 (web content accessibility guidelines).

Learn how to effectively present your product designs to non-designers, clients, or other stakeholders on your team. Gain insight on how to successfully communicate your UI/UX designs so you walk away with useful, actionable feedback. Shot by [Abul Bashar Muhammad Salahuddin](https://dribbble.com/shots/3837903-presentation).

OH no Type Co. Retail and custom typefaces. Life’s a thrill, fonts are chill!

Through a highly iterative process, a small team of engineers and designers worked closely together to rethink some of our standard user interface components, in order to develop the experience that you see in the Instagram Threads app.

Companies are facing a crisis in scaling design, and it’s costing them customers. The solution?

Joining a new job remotely can be… nerve-wracking. There’s a lot to take in — a lot of people to (remotely) meet, unspoken cultural cues…

How we embraced a growth mindset and ended up with a more robust ecosystem of selection patterns

A collection of best articles, resources, and videos that helped me learn all about design systems - curated by @saura3h

Web fonts are often terrible for web performance and none of the font loading strategies are particularly effective to address that. Upcoming font options may finally deliver on the promise of making it easier to align fallback fonts to the final fonts.