Interusable Design, Free Drawing Classes, Figma Design System — and more UX this week

A weekly selection of design links, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective.

• Image Formats →
  Tiny cross-browser images, in HTML and React.
• Figma.com System →
  How a small team built Figma web’s system.
• Phone Field →
  Explaining why the ‘phone’ field is required.

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Stories from the community

Designing for interusability →
By Runi Goswami

What will happen to designers if there’s no interface to design? →
By René Simonsson

Code-blended design →
By Nathan Gross

Top stories this week:

• Am I taking inspiration? Am I stealing? →
  By Alioune Thiam
• Embracing terrible first drafts →
  By Joshua Rudd
• The Cult of Brand: when should I join? →
  By Geoffrey Bunting
• You want me to do what?! I can’t draw →
  By Nicole Norton
• The UX of flying cars: lessons on designing the future →
  By Paula Macedo
• Four definitions of design →
  By Sonja Sarah Porter
• What a traffic light can teach a designer →
  By Maxim Grozny
• Public speaking for non-TED talkers →
  By Valentina Salvi

News & ideas

• Stay Sane Posters →
  Series of posters for lifesavers fighting the virus.
• Drawing Classes →
  At home? Free classes from famous illustrators.
• Inspired by Storch →
  When copy, art and type become inseparable.
• Phone Accessibility →
  Accessibility settings are useful for everyone.

Featured work: Bielke & Yang →

Tools & resources

• Around →
  Video calls for a new era of work.
• Animockup →
  Create animated mockups in your browser.
• Compound Grid →
  Little tool to generate compound grids.
• Emergency Web Kit →
  Existing (CMS) websites are unable to handle spikes in traffic.

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