April_24 Vol_04.1

We curate web design resources.

Website of the week:

Page not found web page gallery
A place to find all those lost pages worthing finding
https://404s.design/ 

How to interrupt (and be interrupted) respectfully in the workplace
Your goal is to get a shared understanding—not to deliver your full monologue. Don’t run out of time for the important stuff.
https://newsletter.weskao.com/p/how-to-interrupt-and-be-interrupted 

Sometimes, a Button Just Wants to Look Like a Button
How much was really lost in the great calamity that was iOS 7? For a UI designer like myself, quite a lot. I wandered around aimlessly for some time before finding my footing again. There was something so tangible with using real world metaphors for digital interfaces.
https://blog.applaudstud.io/s/ 

The quiet, pervasive devaluation of frontend
I feel like I’m seeing a widespread diminishment of the practice of frontend. Nearly everywhere I look, I notice its importance minimized, and its challenges trivialized.
https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/devaluing-frontend 

Jakob Has Jumped the Shark
But this post title is much simpler because it seems Jakob might also be on the fake-AI grift. While trying to stay relevant.
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/03/jakob-has-jumped-the-shark.html 

90% of designers are unhirable?
Or why your cookie-cutter portfolio doesn’t cut it and how to fix it
https://uxdesign.cc/90-of-designers-are-unhirable-3a8238e3cca2 

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