#58 - Design case studies

Hi folks,

Here are a few things I thought were worth sharing this week

2 Compelling Case Studies #

The Making of Carrd, AJ documents his experience building Carrd.co

A UX case study of Booking.com from Filippo Rovelli

On design systems, UX and UI #

In Create your design system, part 1: Typography Sebastiano Guerriero shares how his team built a flexible type system using CSS variables.

In the second part; Create your design system, part 2: Grid & Layout, Claudia Romano details how they structured their content with CSS Grid and Flexbox

Get your design terms down with Figma’s Dictionary

I just picked up the full Streamline 3.0 icons set. Honestly the work that has gone into this is phenomenal. Money well spent.

On Typography #

Font in the wild: Graphik from Commercial Type, seen here on Hayk An’s personal site

I’m half way through Tim Brown’s new book Flexible Typesetting. It’s packed full of useful tips and resources, I highly recommend picking up a copy.

Here’s the Minuscule specimen, a typeface design by 256 for use at extremely small sizes, under the commonly acknowledged threshold of legibility (around 7 points).

Other notable mentions #

Refresh – a fresher approach to the web browser. Awesome concept project from Julius Sohn and Julius Gehrig. It was created at HTW Berlin as part of their bachelor thesis.