The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2022/08/17

adactio.com

No code

Serious business or tools for online expression?

uxdesign.cc

In praise of the spreadsheet

The enduring and essential interface breaks rules, wreaks havoc, and has a permanent place in our hearts.

uxdesign.cc

Midjourney and DALL-E: a new kind of creativity

I’ve been playing with AI-generated art via Midjourney and DALL-E, which take text prompts and turn them into images.

observablehq.com

Tidying up Earth

This map shows the countries of the world neatly aligned, rather than randomly spread all over the planet.

joshwcomeau.com

Why React Re-Renders

In React, we don’t update the DOM directly, we tell React what we want the DOM to look like, and React tackles the rest. But how exactly does it do this? In this tutorial, we’ll unpack exactly when and why React re-renders, and how we can use this information to optimize the performance of our React…