Ever wonder what the thoughtbot designers share on Slack? Enter the Monthly Design Link Pack Newsletter™. Enclosed, you’ll find our monthly roundup of what we’ve been reading, seeing, playing with, and ooh-ahh-ing
Just Figma Things :sparkles:
Automator for Figma: A paid Figma plugin to automate actions
Figma Updates: Figma’s 32 little big updates
Figsite: Turn Figma into a no-code website editor
Figma Store: Figma’s storefront! I’ll take one of each, please
Spacer Components in Figma: Using spacer components to drive consistency in Figma
Figma Academy: Learn advanced design tactics with hands-on lessons delivered directly inside of Figma
CSS Goodies
Codepen: Cool hover effect
Getting Started With CSS Cascade Layers: Be more intentional about ordering the “layers” of CSS rules as a new method of cascade management.
CSS Cascade Layers: Una Kravetz gives an overview of the new @layer and layer() CSS primitives
Parcel CSS: A New CSS parser, transformer, and minifier
Non-boring Gradients: Gradient generator for more awesomeness
Tailwind x Prettier: Prettier plugin for automatically sorting Tailwind classes
Design Systems
Backlight: A collaborative platform empowering front-end teams to build and ship great Design Systems
Design Systems with Backlight: Build, Ship, & Maintain Design Systems with Backlight
Hey Design Systems: A design systems resource with resources
Atomic Design and Storybook: Storybook and atomic design podcast w/ Brad Frost
Typography
Gooper: A goopy, swashy, fat faced typeface
Utopia: Elegantly scale type and space without breakpoints
Strikethrough: Typography messages of protest for civil rights
font-variant-numeric: CSS tip: align numbers neatly in a tables, progress counters, etc.
Eye Candy :candy:
Mushroom Color Atlas: Explore the chromatic universe of fungi
British & Exotic Mineralogy: Explore all 2,242 illustrations from James Sowerby’s compendium of knowledge about mineralogy
Music For Programming: MFP (music for programming) got a makeover!
Emoji to Scale: Your favorite emojis. To scale (more or less)
Good Reads :book:
“Agile” is eating design’s young: A critique and exploration of embedded designers
Metaphors We Web By: A history of our metaphorical understanding of the web
Resources for the designer toolkit
Descript: Automatic and human-powered transcription
Laws of UX: A collection of best practices that designers can consider when building user interfaces
