The story behind the linear design reset

Salut, web dev friends! 🧑‍💻 #

I have selected some news from the web dev world to share.

✨ A design reset - part I
💅 A design reset - part II
🛜 Latency numbers every frontend developer should know

Have a great week.

✨ A design reset - part I
How the design team at Linear, find a way to convince their CEO and to do a full redesign of their product. Creating some design concept is very powerful to implement change into an existing product.

💅 How we redesigned the Linear UI - part II
The process behind the redesign of Linear, how the engineers and the designers came together to make a full redesign in 6 weeks. I really loved the part where they used LCH colour to simplify their colour system and have colours more true to the human eye.

🛜 Latency numbers every frontend developer should know
Vercel's CTO, Malte Ubl put some context and link the numbers to performance metric. It allow us to better understand the result of the popular tools PageSpeed Insights or Lightouse.

Web tools and Library #

💅 Franken UI
HTML-first, framework-agnostic, beautifully designed components that you can truly copy and paste into your site. Accessible. Customizable. Open Source.

🟧 The Ultimate CSS Shapes Collection
Pure CSS shapes made with a single-element, modern CSS and an optimized code. All the shapes are here, look no further !

🤖 LLocalSearch
LLocalSearch is a completely locally running search aggregator using LLM Agents. The user can ask a question and the system will use a chain of LLMs to find the answer. The user can see the progress of the agents and the final answer. No OpenAI or Google API keys are needed.

🤓 A list of developer newsletters
A list of 140 developer newsletters + how to sponsor them.