
Gotta love this design! It has so much personality and a unqiue vintage touch, the perfect fit for the brand it represents. Amazing work by Thom Aufresne with lots of lovely micro interactions. http://webdesignernews.com/collective-775/

Variables, one of Figma’s newest features, help you streamline designs and connect more closely to code, but what do they tell us about larger shifts in the industry? We dig into what they might signal for the future of design systems. http://webdesignernews.com/the-future-of-design-systems-is-semantic/

A method to adapt a font to your users’ preferences, so they’re maximally comfortable reading your content. http://webdesignernews.com/adapting-typography-to-user-preferences-with-css/

The process of evolving a large scale design system http://webdesignernews.com/uplifting-shopify-polaris/

A loading and navigation animation where thumbnails “flow” into a grid. http://webdesignernews.com/grid-flow-animation/

On Monday, the microblogging platform Twitter underwent a striking rebranding, becoming “X” after owner Elon Musk’s unexpected decision to rename the company and transform it into the AI-powered “everything app.” The Internet was abuzz with reactions to this spontaneous and rapid change. Here’s a scoop on some of them. http://webdesignernews.com/online-reactions-to-twitter-rebranding-as-x/

We hear from Instagram’s director of brand design Cynthia Pratomo, who compares developing the look of Threads to “building the plane as you fly it”. http://webdesignernews.com/how-the-threads-design-team-branded-the-app/