Braintactics #94 – Ownership of content, design systems, Sketch, button accessibility and an interview with typographer Erik Spiekermann

Hey everyone!

Here’s your weekly roundup of what’s new in design, code and typography.

Thought provoking

Ownership is resistance. What we do not own, we do not have sovereignty over. A poignant read from Paul Jarvis.

Design and Code

I just published the final part in my series on Using Sketch Libraries to build a better UI design system.

Varun Vachhar on What is a design system?

Coherent, not consistent. Bruno Bergher on why consistency in UI design is overvalued.

A great post from Sara Soueidan on Accessible Icon Buttons.

Can’t Unsee. A fun game to strengthen your UI design skills. Select the design that looks correct. The further you get the hard it becomes.

Typography

Google fonts is adding font-display. For more on what this means check out this short explainer by Monica Dinculescu.

enFont Terrible. Drag and drop a font file and move the sliders until you are happy with the result, then click Create font and a weird new font will be generated for you.

An interview with German typographer and designer Erik Spiekermann.

Something to watch

Taking back your web, a talk by Tantek Çelik.

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Harry

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