8px's Clipped content #6
📚 Your dose of pixel-based stuff
Hi everyone!
Clipped Content is back for another round of “you may have missed these links”.
There were another round of layoffs this week from a large employer, which is just completely nuts given how much profit is being generated.
Are you hiring? Let me know and I’ll try my best to promote it to people. Alternatively, you can post it on the job board for 8px if you wish! If you’re a designer looking for a job, you can register there as well.
Enjoy!
p.s. If you don’t remember what this is, it’s a quarterly (apparently) newsletter that I send out which includes a bunch of cool stuff that I find from being online a lot.
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📖 Little UI design rules that make a big impact
16 quick tips to improve your visual polish.
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📖 2023 state of design systems and where we take them next
A short article about everyone’s favourite topic. Spoiler alert: they think we should be using web components.
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📖 You don’t need permission to create
What stops most people from being more creative isn’t time, skill or confidence, it’s the idea we need permission.
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📖 Should I join (or leave) an ex-hypergrowth company?
Hypergrowth companies are absolutely bonkers, speaking from experience. The question is whether you think that’s the kind of environment you’re suited for or not. This article does a good job of helping you to make that call.
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🐦 Accessibility learning!
Apparently you can’t embed tweets in Substack anymore, so here’s a screenshot and the full tweet link below 🤦
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📺 Apple’s Lisa, a flop but changed computing
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📖 The cost of craft
Why is it so hard to do great work at scale? From a former Facebook and Instagram designer.
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🎫 Freebie: 360 full colour palette badges, pills, and tags
I published these just before writing today’s newsletter, so they are very fresh. If you’re designing a database or need a massive set of “random” colour pills in a design, these should save you a lot of time. Original tweet thread.
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See you next time,
@8pxmag