Creative / Development Inspiration 56
Are you able to be the villain? What about if the product you are making has potential to harm? Also, on a more positive note. Here are some great examples of design systems, the state of UX in 2019, and more! Enjoy!
Designer Resources, Examples and Inspiration
Stop Showing Design Options and Commit
Normally create 20 different versions and let the client pick? But you are the expert, no?
https://medium.com/slite/stop-showing-design-options-and-commit-595d80bdb4aa
The State of UX in 2019
We have seen quite a lot this year. Here’s what to expect for UX in 2019.
Humaaans
Mix and match illustrations of people with a design library. Definitely bookmark this!
A UX Guide For Designing Error Pages
404’s & maintenance pages. Use this checklist before you get started.
https://blog.prototypr.io/a-ux-guide-for-designing-error-pages-fb9ced1f1c8a
Development Snippets, Samples, and Articles
Why You Shouldn’t Split Test During an eCommerce Redesign
Comparing the performance of the old and new site isn’t as useful as other exercises during the redesign process you can run. Don’t split test this!
https://www.goinflow.com/ecommerce-redesign-best-practices/
Awesome Design Systems
A collection of design systems, some open source. All the way from Audi, to Cloudflare. Some great examples.
https://github.com/alexpate/awesome-design-systems
React Create
Simple library to create component templates for React and React native projects.
https://github.com/obiwankenoobi/create
Tiny Details: A Look at Hamburger Menu Reveal Transitions
Examples of the hamburger menu done well, and also not so well. A few nice takes here.
https://speckyboy.com/hamburger-menu-reveal-transitions/
A bit of everything
Be the Villain
They’re not going to be fun conversations. It’s not going to be easy convincing others that these aren’t paranoid delusions best tucked out of sight in the darkest, dustiest corner of the backlog. Realistically, talking about it may even harm your career.
https://24ways.org/2018/be-the-villain/
8 Lessons from Creating a Design System
Mono created a design system. Here is what they learnt along the way!
https://mono.company/design-systems/eight-lessons-from-creating-a-design-system/
Raindrop.io
Think bookmarks, but your your team. Build collections of assets, or working on a new job that needs inspiration. Raindrop makes it simple.
