Web Design Weekly — Issue #311

WEB VERSION ISSUE #311 Headlines A Primer to Web Accessibility for Designers A great article by Nicholas Kramer that reminds us that accessibility is a team effort between designers, developers, copywriters, and content creators. (uxplanet.org) Celebrating the anniversary of the Web (w3.org) Articles Swapping Images with the Sizes Attribute Scott Jehl explains how to simplify complex image selection with the new 'sizes' attribute. (filamentgroup.com) Lessons learned from the history of design systems A look at some milestones in the history of design systems to see what each can teach us about the best ways to build and implement these frameworks into our digital design processes. (invisionapp.com) Really Bad Design Exercises To mix things up Matthew Ström proposes a new 'interesting' idea for the hiring process. Instead of asking a candidate to design the best version of something, ask them to design the worst version of something. (matthewstrom.com) Immersive Design: The Next 10 Years of Interfaces A look into what happens when we design beyond a screen. (uxdesign.cc) Tools / Resources TypeScript — JavaScript with superpowers People have been talking up TypeScript for quite some time, all for good reason. If you are still unsure about it, this post is a great introduction. (freecodecamp.org) Promoted monday.com: The #1 Trello alternative for your team Manage your design projects & tasks, plan product roadmap visually, and communicate all in one place while you stay-on-top of your team's entire workflow. Start using monday.com today! (monday.com) UX Storyboard Creation: A Complete Guide For Beginners Luca Morovián walks you through all the whys and hows of UX storyboard creation plus shares template to help you get started. (uxstudioteam.com) CSS Grid Template Builder A simple tool to build complex CSS Grid templates. (codepen.io) FontDrop Simply drag and drop your OpenType or TrueType font files to see what's inside them. (fontdrop.info) Sloth - Chrome extension to help with throttle testing (github.com) React Tools for WordPress (humanmade.com) MobX 4 released (medium.com) Inspiration How We Adopted CSS Grid at Scale (julian.is) Creative Audio Visualizers (tympanus.net) Jobs JavaScript Engineer at Help Scout JavaScript powers the magic behind Help Scout's apps and services, bringing them to life with delightful interactions and dynamic real-time updates. (helpscout.com) Sr. full-stack engineer at Sticker Mule We're searching for more to join us as we look to build one of the Internet's best technical teams. Some of our current projects include migrating to a service architecture, inter-service communication with GCloud PubSub and GRPC, API Gateway based GraphQL, event sourcing persistence and CQRS, and manufacturing and artwork processing automation. (stickermule.com) Need to find passionate developers or designers? Why not advertise in the next newsletter Last but not least… Lesser known CSS quirks & advanced tips (medium.com) Thanks for supporting! Cheers, @jake_bresnehan Edit your subscription  |  Unsubscribe instantly Forward to a friend Advertise Submit a Link Post a Job in Web Design Weekly