Pixels of the Week – July 31, 2015 by Stéphanie Walter

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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: User Experience, Design, typography rules, speed perception, how to manufacture user’s desire, the paradox of choice, a selection of great videos for designers, famous logos and their meanings, SVG and flexbox tutorials, an online halftone generator, metal captchas, a user’s personality analysis based on texts he wrote, some image placeholders and a memory game.

TL;DNR the one you should not miss

#Mobile #Interstitial

A case study on App Download Interstitials “69% of the visits abandoned our page”

Interesting article

#Design

Everything looks the same (Part 1), why every design look the same and nobody cares except for designers

#Typography

26 digital typography rules for beginners

#Speed

Guidelines for the Human Perception of Speed

#Habits #Design

How to Manufacture Desire: an excellent read on how to build habit forming products

#UX #Choice

Excellent article on the paradox of choice: How to Use the Psychology of Choice to Increase Online Sales

#UX

Site Flows vs. User Flows: When to Use Which

Inspiration and Great ideas

#3D

Let’s print grass <3

#Videos

Daily inspiring videos created by Sacha Greif

#Illustration

I Create Realistic Human Versions Of Popular Software

#Logos

An Interactive Guide to Famous Logos & their Hidden Meanings

#Video

Infinite loop is infinite

Tutorials

#CSS

Flexbox.io 20 free videos to help you master Flexbox

#SVG

Animated SVG Pipes Effect by animating stroke-dashoffset

Useful ressources, tools and plugins that will make your life easy

#Pattern

Halftonepatterns.com an online vector halftone generator in case you need one 🙂

#Captcha

Metalcaptcha.heavygifts.com banish the evil bots from the website forms 😀

#Placeholder

Unsplash.it, a placeholder service using unsplash images

#UX #Analysis

The IBM Watson Personality Insights service uses linguistic analytics to extract a spectrum of cognitive and social characteristics from the text data that a person generates through blogs, tweets, forum posts, and more.