Pixels of the Week – April 25, 2021
👉 Your curated weekly Design and Front-End resources: a free handbook on UI design, workshop basics, quant or qual research, user research demystified, inclusive teaching, taking notes during user testings, accessibility resources and articles, a podcast on collaboration, Frontend tools, Android design, relaxing music, beautiful typography, a game to learn HTML/CSS/JS, a training to help HR understand UX/CX, news about Figma, cards for better inclusive design, etc.
How to make your blog images stand out & reflect your identity
From photos, to illustrations, mosaics and abstract patterns: how could you make your blog headers, images and other visual content part of your brand identity? Here’s 6 ideas and 40 + tools and some real world advice from an experienced designer on how to be your best visual self online, with actual examples.
Pixels of the Week – April 18, 2021
👉 Your curated weekly Design and Front-End resources: Mobile UX, CSS container queries, cool CSS demos, UX research, learning HTML, testing your UI, free painting tool, understanding licenses, an online toolbox for images, SVG & CSS tutorials, SVG animations generator, the UX of small children (satyr), portfolio inspiration, principles of human centered design, no-backend e-commerce solution, etc.
Pixels of the Week – April 11, 2021
👉 Your curated weekly Design and Front-End resources: empathy reifies disability stigmas, prefers-reduced-motion, fake UX challenges to practice, design better icons, card sorting, inspect elements, accessibility of inputs, hand drawn illustrations, CSS art inspiration, SVG patterns, Louvre art is online now, design language, amazing illustration inspiration, CSS hover effects, dataviz colors, etc.
Pixels of the Week – April 4, 2021
👉 Your curated weekly Design and Front-End resources: 4 talks in case you don’t have to “read the book”, an experiment on algorithmic echo chambers, limits of design thinking, free quality fonts, gender equality, contrasted text over images with CSS, container queries are coming, cute illustrations, the origins of sushi, another awesome drum machine, design system talks, fluid typography, asset mapping, a ship through the canal simulator, JavaScript utilities, etc.
Pixels of the Week – March 28, 2021
👉 Your curated weekly Design and Front-End resources: design system UI elements examples, the UX drinking game, typography moods, placeholder, California bans some deceptive patterns, every sites needs to be accessible, a fun game of dogs running an airport for aliens, CSS blend modes, the cookies speed run, logo quiz, retro gaming toolkit, CSS dataviz, colors and more.
Pixels of the Week – March 21, 2021
👉 Your curated weekly Design and Front-End resources: the importance of learning CSS, HSL color format, legibility of fonts in UI, navigation, CSS grid cheatsheet, SVG generators, a tale on robotics arms, presentation inspiration, survey tool, dither generator, search auto-complete, CSS color name tool, 3d map of Tokyo’s public transportation, CV ATS checker, zoom call sabotage, cute illustrations, predicting disasters, cute demos and more…
Pixels of the Week – March 14, 2021
👉 Your curated weekly Design and Front-End resources: why is there so few women in computer science today, what is good design, a few resources on typography, JS 1k chess game, some cool SVG demos, retro UI showcase, icon fonts, psychology and design biases, the NFT WTF with artists on twitter, CSS animations, CSS custom properties to map mouse position, disabled buttons & usability, etc.
Pixels of the Week – March 7, 2021
👉 Your curated weekly Design and Front-End resources: awesome CSS conic gradients, free SVG illustrations, material design fields are badly design, accessibility checklist, handling dominating participants in UX workshops, testing with screen reader, fun astrology perditions for designers, Gsap demos, enterprise UX, dangerous UI options, a nice video on empathy, cute inspiration, etc.
📚 My Selection of the Best Books on UX Research, UX Design, Mobile, Accessibility & more
My personal selection of the best book on UX design, user research, psychology, UI and web design, ethics, creativity, mobile and responsive web design, accessibility, collaboration, strategy, management and more. I ordered the list in different categories to help you go through and update the list regularly.