🤖 Relaunching Google Design at a turning point for the industry
Tags: webdev, ux, ui, frontend
Published: 2023-05-19 11:41:00

Here's what we have this week:

🎨 Google Design is back  
🤖 Using Midjourney for banding  
🤔 The UX problems with sticky menus

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### 📚 Top Reads

[**Welcome back to Google Design**](https://design.google/library/welcome-back-to-google-design?utm_source=dailydevlinks.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=dailydevlinks.com&ref=dailydevlinks.com)

We are relaunching Google Design at a turning point for the industry. AI technologies brings about feelings of uncertainty, but opens up new possibilities.

[**How to Build a Beginner-Friendly JavaScript Application**](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a-beginner-friendly-javascript-application/?utm_source=dailydevlinks.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=dailydevlinks.com&ref=dailydevlinks.com)

We will build a beginner-friendly JavaScript application that will teach you the basics of creating HTML structure, working with CSS, and finally adding dynamic behaviour using JavaScript.

[**The problem with sticky menus and what to do instead**](https://adamsilver.io/blog/the-problem-with-sticky-menus-and-what-to-do-instead/?utm_source=dailydevlinks.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=dailydevlinks.com&ref=dailydevlinks.com)

Designers use sticky menus to make them easy to access on long pages. But this fancy pattern hurts UX far more than it improves it.

[**The ongoing defence of frontend as a full-time job**](https://christianheilmann.com/2023/05/09/the-ongoing-defence-of-frontend-as-a-full-time-job/?utm_source=dailydevlinks.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=dailydevlinks.com&ref=dailydevlinks.com)

One thing that keeps happening is that people get my CV, are impressed but then ask me that I seem to be focused on the front end a lot and what my experiences with backend and full stack development are.

[**The reason we do low fidelity design**](https://draganbabic.com/blog/the-reason-we-do-low-fidelity-design/?utm_source=dailydevlinks.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=dailydevlinks.com&ref=dailydevlinks.com)

Wireframes, journey maps, site maps, diagrams, those are all thinking tools. They are not deliverables, and you should not treat them as such, unless you have a really valid reason to spend budget on them.

### 🛠 Resources & Tools

[**Rearrange / Animate CSS Grid Layouts with the View Transition API**](https://www.bram.us/2023/05/09/rearrange-animate-css-grid-layouts-with-the-view-transition-api/?utm_source=dailydevlinks.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=dailydevlinks.com&ref=dailydevlinks.com)

About 5 years ago I found this neat library called animate-css-grid that allows you to use transitions in your CSS Grid.

[**How I used Midjourney to design a brand identity**](https://uxdesign.cc/how-i-used-midjourney-to-design-a-brand-identity-394cf9ddaeed?utm_source=dailydevlinks.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=dailydevlinks.com&ref=dailydevlinks.com)

By now, it’s no secret that AI will considerably impact the future of branding and design—making us question how we can continue to provide irreplaceable value as designers.

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