Pixels of the Week – October 13, 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: optical illusions, conversation UI, design and brillant ideas, iPhone X design, UX tools, User Journey Maps, deceptive patterns, workflow, AMP, some really nice and cute stickers and illustrations, some CSS Grid Layout demos and a Sketch Font extension.
You can follow me on twitter to get a dose of links every days.
TL;DNR the one you should not miss
#Design #Illusion
Haan I love this article: 11 Optical Illusions Found in Visual Design
Interesting article
#Design and UI
- How to Design Better Than Yourself – “It’s hard to be impressed by something that is obvious, but nothing is obvious while you don’t understand it.”
- How My Father-in-Law Disrupted the Soap Dish – brillant idea and really nice to read article 🙂
- Conversational Design – The cult of conversational design and why forms aren’t dead yet – Inside Intercom
- Inclusive Design – It’s Nice That | Apple announces launch of gender neutral emoji
#UX
- 5 Essential Types of User Experience Testing Tools
- Journey Mapping is Key to Gaining Empathy
- Deceptive pattern – Ask me how Hulu stole $6.00 from me with this one sneaky UX trick.
#iPhone
UI Design for iPhone X: Top Elements and the Notch
#Front-End
Using CodePen Can Boost Your Front-end Development Workflow
#Typography
#Mobile #AMP
Google testing blue ‘instant’ AMP label in the search results
#Guthenberg #WordPress
A review of Gutenberg, the new WordPress editor with a few interesting concerns
Inspiration and Great ideas
#Illustration
- Those are really cute: Freelance Achievement Stickers
- Jessica Hische – Cancelled Weddings. I love the sorry not sorry
#CSS
- Awwww you amazing developers I love it when you go crazy with Grid Layout <3
- Haan sooo cool: Comic book style layout with CSS Grid
#Typography
Moving Letters – Text animated with JavaScript & anime.js
Webdesign news
#Sketch
Introducing Libraries and Smooth Corners in Sketch 47 (wondering if we can reproduce smooth corners in CSS)
Useful resources, tools and plugins that will make your life easy
#Font
FontBuddy for Sketch — Never Deal With Missing Fonts Again. It can find missing Google fonts and install them
