Mr Branding: Web Design Weekly #362

Monday, July 29, 2019

Web Design Weekly #362

Headlines

Design tools are holding us back

Tom Johnson feels that our tools are still using methods, workflows, and features from graphic and visual design. Which is pretty true. A solid rant. (uxdesign.cc)

The Modern Front-End Design System Stack (jxnblk.com)

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Articles

Designing And Building A PWA Without A Framework

The first of a three part series that looks at designing and building a simple Progressive Web Application called ‘In/Out’, built without a framework. (smashingmagazine.com)

The Simplest Way to Load CSS Asynchronously

There are several ways to make CSS load asynchronously, but none are as intuitive as you might expect. Scott Jehl explains. (filamentgroup.com)

When to break up a component into multiple components

There are various reasons to split code into components. In this post Kent C Dodds looks into it and explains the pros and cons. (kentcdodds.com)

A Look Inside the Slack rewrite

A new version of Slack is rolling out, built from the ground up to be faster, more efficient, and easier to work on. This post digs into how they went about doing the rewrite and why. (slack.engineering)

Tools / Resources

Fundamentals of JavaScript

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about the fundamentals of JavaScript – the set of core skills you should know before branching off into other frameworks, libraries, etc. (syntax.fm)