Pixels of the Week – April 3, 2015

Every week I post a lot of my daily readings about Web, UI and UX Design, mobile design, webdesign tools  and useful ressources, inspiration on twitter and other social networks.

This week’s selection: SVG will help you build better web interfaces, use SVG, some nice little April Fools, a report on responsive webdesign among people of the industry, some articles and ressources to help you build a more performant site, user experience that goes far beyond the website and a study of the smartphone landscape in the US.

TL;DNR the one you should not miss

#SVG

Building Better Interfaces with SVG by the amazing @SaraSoueidan

Interesting article

#Input

Numeric Inputs – A Comparison of Browser Defaults (spinner control makes it strange to use on a credit card e.g.)

#UX

User experience design is not what you think and goes beyond the interface of your website

#Burger Icon

Solve Your Hamburger Menu Problems with The Frankfurter

#Performance

Google developers has a nice page on rendering performances

#Slides #Mobile #Chrome

The plural of Chromium is Chromia, Ppk’s presentation on the Chromium mobile landscape

#Responsive

Responsive report among people of the industry: challenges, feelings, tools, etc.

Inspiration and Great ideas

#April Fools

According to me Fronteers.nl got the best april fool idea this year with a nice little moral on how the web works today. Well played 🙂

#Images #Botanic

If you are looking for some nice botanic, biodiversity illustrations, those are available under a CC attribution licence 🙂

Designer Great news

Tutorials

#Performance

A Modern Approach to Improving Website Speed (using Gulp)

Useful ressources

#Mobile #Data

Nice datas: US Smartphone use in 2015

#Mobile

Even if it dates back from 2009, the BBC Mobile Style Guide is really impressive. I’m curious of the 170px device though

#Nokia #AprilFool

Muhhha Nokia PSD mockups

Tools and plugins that will make your life easy

#RWD

Wondering if this is an April fool or if you really need to grant mobile users access to full site when using RWD

Fun, games, experiments and demos

#Code

A codepen that writes itself

#Parody

How Product Hunt Helped Me Grow A List Of 12,989,483,288+ Valuable Subscribers And Generate 220k+ In Sales In Less Than 20 Minutes Without Having To Write A Single Line Of Code And Also Taught Me These 5+ Startup Lessons From My Mistakes About Being A Product Manager in 2016 on Meerkat. HAHAHA