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30 websites with beautifully patterned backgrounds

Canva

These days, patterns are everywhere. If you’ve been poking around online lately, chances are you’ve seen patterns being used in web design as well. Trying to figure out what elements to use to build your website’s pattern? Create a symmetrical pattern. Design a pattern using linework only. It’s delightful.

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New and expanded Malika Favre monograph is a minimalist marvel

Creative Boom

And rather than leaping straight into a third, the publishers decided to satisfy the public's clear demand for Malika's work by putting out an expanded and updated edition that includes many of her new projects. It helped further refine the work into what it would finally become.

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Patterns are good

UX Collective

Source: Tidbits A design pattern is a document that describes a common solution to a recurring design problem. According to Tibor Kunert (2009), using design patterns allows designers to quickly find solutions to problems using proven designs, rather than starting from scratch each time. Welcome to Design Patterns.

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Being a primitive in the Digital Age

UX Collective

Ancient cavemen carved stones, digital primitives carve pixels [ Many things have already been written about code as a creative medium, this is my little and unpretentious contribution. The tools used by designers completely hide all these aspects, but I could still access them using code, building my own custom tools. You’ll see.

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20+ Essential Skills for a Web Design Career

Inkbot Design

Aim to write clean, valid and optimised code. Performance optimisation – Minify code, lazy load images, use efficient CSS selectors, remove unused code and more. Valid code – Write standards-compliant HTML and CSS for greater accessibility, SEO and performance. Position elements using CSS flexbox and grid.

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Design systems without screens

UX Collective

What if you could just sketch the interface and automatically convert it to a coded interface? This future looks possible with tools like UIzard , Sketch2Code , TeleportHQ , or Artyline , which have explored ways of converting sketches into coded interfaces using AI. This is especially true for patterns that don’t involve screens.

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Building software for artists

UX Collective

There’s important, interdisciplinary work to be done to create more ways for creative practitioners to use code on their own terms in their workflows. Spreadsheets are powerful, because they have enabled people (who might not code) to use computation in diverse ways in their work. 2 Why would artists want to code?

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