Mistakes to avoid when designing micro-interactionsIssara Willenskomer lays out five grounded and helpful animation principles to curb our crazy micro-interactions. Buttons in design systemsA button is the purest expression of a system’s visual style. It combines the “big three” attributes — color, typography, and iconography — into a single unit. Nathan Curtis shares some tips for the humble button. On surveysDesign Researcher Erika Hall writes about the pursuit of quantitative data and the dangers of surveys. "A survey shouldn’t be a fallback for when you can’t do the right type of research." We also enjoyed...Scaling knowledge at AirbnbAirBnB built a Knowledge Repo to tackle the challenge of keeping their growing design team in sync. Will their five key tenets for scaling knowledge work for your team? Making... and breaking the gridAirtable made the bold step step of moving from a conventional grid to a calendar view and it wasn't easy. See how they fared. Rediscovering Apples 1987 human interface guidelinesBryan Hodson revisits Apple’s 1987 Human Interface Guidelines to see how they’ve held up. Why we need new typefacesTypeface design is an ongoing discipline. Typefaces speak of where a culture is, its priorities and aspirations. We no longer live in the same societies as our predecessors. TILL NEXT TIME!Thanks for reading! We love hearing from you – you can tweet us with your feedback, or recommend a product design story. Up for more? Browse the PDW archives. Share this issue 
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