Vol_3.24.25

We curate web design resources.

Author

Gene Crawford
March 24, 2025

Website of the week:

Design by Decision Fatigue
How can we design software to not end up like those complex beasts someone else has to maintain, which were once fresh projects like mine, born with good intentions?
https://questdb.com/blog/design-by-decision-fatigue/ 

Design tips for startups
We worked on our first startup idea for over a year and completely failed. We never got real users. So a few months ago, we decided to pivot to Vigilant. When we did that, we had to build a new product from scratch. Restarting was humbling and depressing.
https://www.vigilant.run/blog/design-tips-for-startups 

A beginner’s guide to manual accessibility testing
Manual and automated accessibility testing work together to find accessibility issues.
https://blog.pope.tech/2023/03/01/a-beginners-guide-to-manual-accessibility-testing/ 

Our human habit of anthropomorphizing everything
Should we be anthropomorphizing AI?
https://www.doc.cc/articles/anthropomorphizing-everything 

Building what customers need, not just what they ask for
Steve Jobs famously said customers don't know what they want until you show it to them. Henry Ford quipped that people would have asked for faster horses, not automobiles. Yet at Linear, we just built a feature specifically designed to collect customer requests. Seems contradictory, right?
https://linear.app/blog/building-what-customers-need 

Work-life balance isn't for you...
Loving your work doesn’t mean it’s not work. It doesn’t mean there won’t be hard days, stress, or tasks you’d rather not do. More importantly, it doesn’t mean your work should become your entire life. 
https://ctrlaltclub.beehiiv.com/p/work-life-balance-isn-t-for-you 

Your Life in Weeks
Create a map of your life where each week is a little box.
https://lifeweeks.app/ 

A CSS-Only Star Rating Component and More! (Part 1)
https://css-tricks.com/a-css-only-star-rating-component-and-more-part-1/

Resources To Make You Better

Design/Creative Based Podcast FY

Some Favorite Things:

Audiobooks Mobile App Concept

Audiobooks Mobile App Concept designed by Md Imran Hossan Jakir for FASTWEB.STUDIO. Connect with them on Dribbble; the global community for designers and creative professionals.

dribbble.com/shots/25790422-Audiobooks-Mobile-App-Concept

Ice Cream outlines

Ice Cream outlines designed by Tyler Pate. Connect with them on Dribbble; the global community for designers and creative professionals.

dribbble.com/shots/25729648-Ice-Cream-outlines

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