Pixels of the Week
My weekly newsletter for designers, UXers, devs, and curious tech people. It’s packed with articles, resources, tools, inspiration, and the occasional spicy take. This is the archive, subscribe to get it in your inbox.
Pixels of the Week – August 30, 2020
👉 Your curated weekly Design and Front-End resources: an interesting short ebook on interfaces, why design thinking is failing, design system assets, perfect banana bread sandwich with machine learning, some CSS inspiration, CSS grid doesn’t replace a grid framework, free Sketch illustration plugin, PWAs and privacy, grid vs tables and accessibility, random wikipedia pictures, cool 3D illustrations in CSS, a LEGO prosthetic arm, etc.
Pixels of the Week – August 23, 2020
👉 Your curated weekly Design and Front-End resources: 7 deadly sins of dataviz, some great talks on binary thinking, design thinking being bullshit and inclusive design, showing users they can scroll with CSS, understanding the vocabulary of CSS, digging into the CSS Flex property, a piano built in JS, some online tools, naming layout components, some SVG calligraphy animation, recognizing gaslighting and being set up to fail, etc.
Pixels of the Week – August 16, 2020
👉 Your curated weekly Design and Front-End resources: accessibility guidelines for designers, my free user journey miro template, user researchers skills, proximity design principle, difference between different CSS, HTML and JS properties, CSS borders with background-image gradients, CSS grid masonry solution, CSS content-visibility and performance, CSS Drop-Shadow filter, Figma for presentations, fun design quizz, CSS explained with comics, media accessibility bookmark for twitter, etc.
Pixels of the Week – August 9, 2020
👉 Your curated weekly Design and Front-End resources: CSS animations and UX, the UX of LEGO interface panels, some smart interface design patterns checklists, making motion accessible on the web, design fiction, some nice free illustrations by icon8, a set of tiny free icons, 90’s video game style tool to hangout online with people, dark mode with prefers-color-scheme, some really cool SVG and CSS animations, different CSS media queries to detect user preferences, etc.
Pixels of the Week – August 2, 2020
👉 Your curated weekly Design and Front-End resources: designing flexible components beyond breakpoints, 9000+ cool illustrations and icons, a complete guide to usability testing, meaning of 100% in CSS, Figma design systems, a mandala maker, designing for iPad, an online CSS animations builder tool, an amazing talk on systemic systems, user research tips, a figma contrast checker plugin, a podcast on design principles, an online place to shout your frustration, form design, etc.
Pixels of the Week – July 26, 2020
👉 Your curated weekly Design and Front-End resources: the mental model of how men’s & women’s bodies are described in books, CSS inline-block, backdrop filter, product design, Pixar’s rules of story telling, UX research systems, accessibility and buttons, prefers-reduced-motion and vestibular disorders, github profile visit counter, some Figma tips, inclusive design for trans people, automatic captions in OBS videos, popular CSS frameworks breakpoints, a cool online escape room game, etc.
Pixels of the Week – July 19, 2020
👉 Your curated weekly Design and Front-End resources: modern CSS showcase, game ethics, design teams structures, an avatar generator, the UX of videogames, accessibility resources, github readmes, intrinsic web design, a small CSS buttons library, UX education and bootcamps, UX roadmaps, UX research resources, a fun GSAP demo, SVG shape generator, 558 free SVG icons, optimizing for core web vitals, a cute site to open a window somewhere in the world, etc.
Pixels of the Week – July 12, 2020
👉 Your curated weekly Design and Front-End resources: APIs to build amazing mobile web experiences, UX tools, a guide to learn UX design (articles and videos), building a User Research Plan, different types of personas, dark mode logo, CSS layouts, UX prototypes, Accessibility mistakes, design systems, 2 fun websites that bring you to old school designs and web trends 20 years ago, etc.
Pixels of the Week – July 5, 2020
👉 Your curated weekly Design and Front-End resources: an introduction to UX psychology, UX Debt, the whimsical web with a list of websites that spark joy, pixelart, the A-Z of AI, PWAs and the picture in picture feature, Apple Design Resources, the Norman Doors and principle of discoverability, lint HTML with CSS, better UI rules, an interesting talk on Jobs to be Done, designing selection controls (checkboxs, radio buttons, etc.), design/dev relationship, etc.
Pixels of the Week – June 28, 2020
👉 Your curated weekly Design and Front-End resources: inclusive and accessible SVG checkboxes, UCD vs empathy, what it’s really like to be a designer, Journey mapping, racial biases in machine learning, avoiding spammy notifications, CSS grid and Flexbox for components, cool canvas demo, scroll position technologies, accessibility, dark mode tutorial, a guide to all the media queries (not just the ones for responsive), the history of Cooper Black, SVG portfolio, illustrations inspirations, a nice GSAP “apps have feelings” demo, Bootstrap 5, hybrid form elements, etc.