Pixels of the Week – March 3, 2017

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

This week’s selection: Comic Sans and dyslexia, Google Analytics and UX, icons design, mobile authentication, logo inspiration, CSS tutorials for responsive menus, transform, responsive navigation, tables and video, touch device detection, a Sketch nice plug-in to collaborate, some UX research cheat Sheet and a color palette tool.

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

TL;DNR the one you should not miss

#Comic Sans

Hating Comic Sans Is Ableist, on comic sans and dyslexia

Interesting article

#Design

Love the idea: Norway news site checks you read story before commenting

#Analytics

5 Ways to Track & Optimize User Experience in Google Analytics

#Icons

Turn Boring Icons into Original Masterpieces (I would not say masterpieces but the techniques are interesting)

#Performance

Really interesting read, sometimes faster has to opposite effect on user’s trust., why Some Apps Use Fake Progress Bars

#UX

Nailing the UX of Authentication on Mobile, a few quick tips

Inspiration and Great ideas

#Inspiration #Logo
Logobook – Discover the worlds finest logos, symbols and trademarks

#Feminism

Social Media Bingo – from The Feminist Activity Book (which looks amazing btw)

 Tutorials

#CSS

10 Code Snippets for Creating Responsive Navigation Menus

#Responsive

Responsive Navigation, Tables, and Video

#Touch

Touch Devices Should Not Be Judged By Their Size, on detecting pointers capabilities in CSS

#CSS

A Trick: Individual CSS Transform Functions (using CSS variables)

#CSS

Drawing and Animating Jelly Shapes with Canvas

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

#Sketch

Picnic, a Sketch plug-in to work simultaneously on the same file. Alpha for the moment so didn’t test it though :/

#UX

You might want to bookmark this –> UX Research Cheat Sheet

#Color

ClickPalette, a simple color palette manager tool