#129 - Sticking with your commitments

Hey everyone,

Welcome to issue #129, your weekly roundup of what’s happening in design, code and typography.

Thought provoking #

Sticking with your commitments. Something I wrote on Implementation Intentions and the importance of having a strategy for your actions.

“Our future is an exciting one that combines analog and digital, human and machine, rather than elevating one at the expense of the other.”Jason Bailey takes a look at The tools of generative art, from Flash to neural networks and paints a picture of where we’re heading.

Nothing Is Original: A Lesson for Creators from Jamie Syke.

Design and Code #

Custom Styling Form Inputs With Modern CSS Features. It’s entirely possible to build custom checkboxes, radio buttons, and toggle switches these days, while staying semantic and accessible. Aaron Iker shows how.

Same HTML, Different CSS. Ahmad Shadeed creates five different CSS layouts without changing the HTML code, whilst ensuring his designs are fully accessible, responsive, performant and progressively enhanced.

Designing Learn JavaScript’s course portal. Zell Liew shares the design considerations he made when designing the lessons page of his JavaScript course portal.

2019 JavaScript Rising Stars. See, by the numbers, the projects that got the most traction on GitHub in 2019.

Typography #

Variable fonts’ past, present and future, according to Dalton Maag. The type foundry’s creative director Bianca Berning explains where type’s most exciting innovation came from, how it’s made, who its key players are, and where the medium might go next.

What minimum font-size for a high-density data web app do you suggest? from Stéphanie Walter.

What Is Molecular Typography, and Why Is It Experiencing a Resurgence? A brief primer on the 20th-century theory that “letters are in fact living organisms.”

CSTM Xprmntl 03. Here’s what happens when you interpolate a Blackletter with Old Cyrillic Ustav.

Something to watch #

“I document, I explain and I lead in that way.” Nathan Barry, CEO of Convertkit shares some Honest advice about leadership and running a company.


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