Adam MarsdenHere's what we have this week:
🎨 Google Design is back
🤖 Using Midjourney for banding
🤔 The UX problems with sticky menus
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📚 Top Reads
We are relaunching Google Design at a turning point for the industry. AI technologies brings about feelings of uncertainty, but opens up new possibilities.
How to Build a Beginner-Friendly JavaScript Application
We will build a beginner-friendly JavaScript application that will teach you the basics of creating HTML structure, working with CSS, and finally adding dynamic behaviour using JavaScript.
The problem with sticky menus and what to do instead
Designers use sticky menus to make them easy to access on long pages. But this fancy pattern hurts UX far more than it improves it.
The ongoing defence of frontend as a full-time job
One thing that keeps happening is that people get my CV, are impressed but then ask me that I seem to be focused on the front end a lot and what my experiences with backend and full stack development are.
The reason we do low fidelity design
Wireframes, journey maps, site maps, diagrams, those are all thinking tools. They are not deliverables, and you should not treat them as such, unless you have a really valid reason to spend budget on them.
🛠 Resources & Tools
Rearrange / Animate CSS Grid Layouts with the View Transition API
About 5 years ago I found this neat library called animate-css-grid that allows you to use transitions in your CSS Grid.
How I used Midjourney to design a brand identity
By now, it’s no secret that AI will considerably impact the future of branding and design—making us question how we can continue to provide irreplaceable value as designers.
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