I can’t stress enough how even a modest amount of pre-thinking, sketching or even just making a checklist beats jumping into a code editor or design tool, regardless of whether you’re doing a small ticket at work, building a personal site or even starting a whole client project. Sitting down and thinking away from the tools really helps you to consider what is actually important, what is a nice to have, how you measure improvement and importantly, what the process of iterations/cycles look like.

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And while this is certainly a positive thing in many ways, it puts us in a riskier position when it comes to communicating our work.

Why? Because the only thing more dangerous to a design system’s funding case than a lack of understanding of what it is, is a false understanding of what it is. Particularly when that false understanding is often built on a collection of common myths that have elbowed their way, without nuance, into the psyche of our organisations’ leaders. Myths like:

• 10x faster
• don't need a design system team
• design system eradicate duplication effort
• bake accessibility into components and the job is done

Open the website twice. Got it?

A scroll-animated website well built

The goal was to show how you can use patterns from the GOV.UK Design System to design complex case working systems.

The prototype was complete user flows with URL changes. No validators, only examples of flows with the existing design system.

That’s 100x harder to do with Figma. The audience is focused on the Figma navigation instead of experiencing the design. It also hides problems: transitions, loading states, error states adn edge cases.

20 questions pour comprendre quels sont les "dark patterns" utilisés.

En savoir plus sur les apparences trompeuses https://apparences-trompeuses.beta.cnil.fr/html/savoir-plus.html

Et sur le test https://apparences-trompeuses.beta.cnil.fr/html/apropos.html

SVG filters can be applied to HTML tags with: filter: url(#distort).

There are examples what we can do with a website :)

There is also a list of webrings on it:
https://whitep4nth3r.com/webring/

A thoughtful post about prioritizing new development in a project.

Friction exists to make us notice what we’re doing. [...] Bad friction is friction without purpose. It exists by accident, or through neglect. It asks more from the user without offering anything in return. [...] Good friction is different. It’s intentional. It’s added with a clear reason, and it earns its place in the experience — often through utility.

Good frictions:

• Holding ⌘Q to quit a browser session is a deliberate pause before closing everything
• A brief delay after sending an email, allowing you to undo before it’s final
• Intentional pagination instead of infinite scrolling is progress with awareness
• A warning when an email mentions an attachment but none is included is a small check before sending

A Menu. 37 Items that redirects to other small and text only pages. That's great :)

« Le design, c'est faire des produits utilisables, limiter frictions, risques et déceptions »

« Idées reçues : pas la peine de demander aux utilisateurs, les designeurs ne savent faire que du cliquodrome, pas besoin d'UX pour le backoffice »

Intéressant, les orateurs disent bien qu'ils ne travaillent qu'avec des gens convaincus des beautés du libre. Sinon, la migration ne se passera pas bien. Il y a assez de travail avec les gens qui sont volontaires, il ne faut pas perdre de temps avec les autres. (C'était dit moins brutalement.)

But here’s what happened while everyone celebrated the democratization: the real challenge should have shifted from “how do we build this?” to “what should we build that people actually want?”

The barrier to building dropped to zero. The bar for what users expect shot through the roof.

Skills that matter now:

1. Understanding real user needs (not assumptions)
2. Business literacy (understanding the economics)
3. Communication skills (translating needs into solutions)
4. Craft and polish (building something truly outstanding)

When the market gets flooded with mediocre-but-functional products, users become more discerning, not less. They start caring more about how products make them feel, not just what features they have.
Start optimizing for user understanding, clear communication, business value, and thoughtful execution.

from https://shaarli.lyokolux.space/shaare/4Rg2EQ

A website full of design resources.

It’s a pretty broad range of topics but always through a common lens of design and creative thinking.
All resources and links are shared purely because I think they are cool, interesting or helpful.