Issue 149: On entering an era of designers building companies (and it’s exciting)

A cautionary tale of Figma and the series of events that led to its latest release at the Config23 Conference. Read to the end to see the other side.

While the summer season seems to be the time when trends slow down some, there are still new things happening in website design. Often this is a season of design evolution, rather than complete overhauls of standard design practices.

When objects look similar to one another, the mind perceives them as a group or pattern.

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A curated collection of high-quality free fonts you might not have seen before

A library of over 70 custom-color elements ready to paste into your project.  

A legible monospace font… the very typeface you’ve been trained to recognize since childhood. This font is a fork of Shannon Miwa’s Comic Shanns(version 1).

A tool for creating and exporting in SVG or PNG curved point design patterns through configurable properties for graphic designers, UI/UX and other visual professionals to use in their projects.

AI image generator Midjourney has launched its latest 5.2 version which has excited fans with its new “Zoom Out” feature allowing users to widen the field of view.