Reading list

• Here's a comprehensive explanation on the prosess of how your UI is rendered in React. A lovely TLDR to get you going this Friday morning.

Design of the week

• We all love dynamic fonts, and the DEMO Festival in The Netherlands cranks it up to eleven on their new page.
• Or how about a monospaced coding version of Helvetica? URW Design Studio is blessing your terminal with the beautiful Fragment Mono.
• Look what happens with inherited background colours. Do you think they give space to the images, or make them more cramped? Here's an example from Simone Sniekers, a creative producer and fashion editor based in Amsterdam.
• There's something very potent, if not powerful, when strong brands spend so much effort and money on doing things right. Here's an interesting UX read on how Nike create Emotion by Design.
• Memes are a plenty on how UX designers keep asking for user feedback. It's of vital importance to us, but just how do we define insights and how should we be writing them? Nikki Anderson has some ideas over at Dscout.

Tech of the week

• CSS is making strides to help out on all those floating parts of content that are moved out of the screen when resizing various ways. CSS Values and Units Level 4 introduces 16 new viewport Units to save the day.
• Ask Command is a tiny AI powered app that'll remind you of commands you always forget. Nifty! Be careful though, it's credit based, but do check out the demo.
• Just when you thought we forgot to mention Next.js. Can you spare five minutes on Layouts RFC?