Design APIs, Minimalism Is Not Dead, Framer Web — and more UX this week

A weekly selection of design links, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective.

• Design APIs → The next step in design systems.
• Information Forager → A theory of how people navigate the web.
• NY Times CMS → Designing a streamlined newsroom workflow.

The UX Collective newsletter is a self-funded newsletter read by over 118,600 designers every week, curated by Fabricio Teixeira and Caio Braga.

Stories from the community

Minimalism is not, and never will be, dead →

10 things that helped me improve as a UI designer →

Personas: what UX can learn from marketing →

More top stories:

• Goodbye, Sketch ** ** →
• What animation taught me about UX design ** ** →
• Creating more usable accessibility guidelines →
• Using comic strips and storyboards to test your UX concepts ** ** →
• 7 design psychology tricks every designer should know ** ** →
• Landing a UX Design internship at Google ** ** →
• Will design streaming be a thing? ** ** →
• Shipping a product is not the final destination →

News & ideas

• Open to All → Yelp launches new filter for inclusive businesses.
• Big Tech Diversity → Terrible diversity records visualized in logos.
• Videogame Logos → A gallery of game console logos since the 80s.
• Algorithm Architect → How Barbara Liskov pioneered the modern approach to code.

Tools & resources

• Framer Web → Prototyping tool Framer is coming to the web.
• Diez → An open source design language framework
• I Done This → Collaborative to-do tool focused on data.
• Build Your React → A step by step exercise of rewriting React.

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