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Abby Covert: articulating your value as an individual contributor →

“Management is an entirely different skill-set. Really good managers don’t have to be good at the thing they are managing others doing, they need to know how to support, fight for and unblock people. So while I am quite good at IA, I struggled to set aside that skillset to instead focus solely on managing others.”

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Stories from the community

The paucity of good design →

The onion for Design Systems →

All design projects should start in a Google Doc →

Type, type, type

• A guide to understanding what makes a typeface accessible →
• Just my type: tracing the evolution of letters →
• A full-stack designer’s take on a daily lettering challenge →

News & ideas

• Sync to furthest → How structural inconsistencies frustrate users.
• Why we interface → An essay on the past and future of interfaces.
• Dark politics → Tiktoker points dark patterns in candidates sites.
• Footnote usability → A skeuomorph hangover from printed text days.

Tools & resources

• Just in CSS → The just-in-case mindset in CSS.
• #CriticalAxis → Analyzing disability representation in media.
• Omatsuri → Open source browser tools for everyday use.
• Kinopio club → This mindmap tool helps you with hard problems.

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