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Inayaili de León Persson
1 January 2017

December’s reading list


We hope everyone has had a great start to the year and fun holiday season. Here are the best links shared by the design team during the last month of 2016:

  1. Creating a Weekly Research Cadence
  2. We’ve updated the radios and checkboxes on GOV.UK
  3. A new algorithm for finding a visual center of a polygon
  4. Mockuuups Studio – Product mockups, made easy & instantly
  5. Retiring pieces of a design system
  6. Yes, progressive enhancement is a f*ucking moral argument
  7. Space in Design Systems
  8. BBC GEL: Design Patterns
  9. Interview / Mark Boardman (StreetView Project)
  10. Dan Ariely: What makes us feel good about our work?

Thank you to Anthony, Grazina, Jamie, Karl and me for the links this month!


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