Pixels of the Week – January 20, 2019 by Stéphanie Walter

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Every week I share a list of curated articles, resources and tools about UX, UI and mobile design, Front-End development, HTML, CSS and more…

This week’s selection: CSS specificity, research questions, UX process, iconography, illustrator tips, dashboard design, color blindness accessibility, content visual separators, SVG filters, a selection of UI/UX tools, pictures of monorail cats, Javascript animation library, etc.

You can follow me on twitter to get a dose of links every days.

I published something

The videos for my talk on Hello my name is St�phanie and Cheating The UX, When There Is Nothing More To Optimize at Voxxed Days Thessaloniki are online and at the bottom of the articles

TL;DNR the one you should not miss

#CSS

How CSS specificity works in the browser, a great article that will explain you how CSS specificity works

Interesting article

#UX

Research Questions Are Not Interview Questions: You can’t just ask people what you want to know. Sorry.
What is your UX process? – great read. That part made me smile tough “developers are waiting until your design is finalized and delivered to them.”, in most case they just start developing and you hope to catch up with mockups eventually. Or not.
UX/UI Designer Tools – A selection of tools I use during my working days. (and some I would like to)

#UI

Quick reminder “10 rules for better dashboard design“
Separating Content (by using divider lines). Haha I read an article a few weeks that was advocating against divider lines, because, minimalism. In the end, divider, no divider it all comes down to style, as long as you find a way to visually group content.
Will Adobe XD kill Sketch and InVision? Interesting comparison, also Adobe XD is available on Windows, so bigger market . Let’s face it, a lot of big companies are still windows only and Sketch can’t target that market :/

#Front-End

SVG Filters 101
How Well Do You Know CSS Layout? A little test for fun. With all the answers explained 🙂
2018 JavaScript Rising Stars – some statts on JS Frameworks based on stars on github

#Accessibility

Color Blindness Considerations for Designers and Content Managers

#Icons

Iconography. Good or bad? As always, it depends

#Illustrations

5 More Basic Tips for Illustrating” really nice illustrator tips. Copy paste in the same place changed my life