Pixels of the Week – October 16, 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: personas, UX, typography and performance, responsive emails in gmail, why your users are lazy, a little bit of quick prototyping, design terms explained to non designers, non latin alphabet typography and a little tool to create nice gradients.
TL;DNR the one you should not miss
#Human Behaviors
Why Designers Think Users Are Lazy: 3 Human Behaviors, very interesting read
Interesting article
#Persona
How to Make a UX Research Persona video, Part 1 of 2: primary and secondary sources of data
Yup, responsive emails are still a mess: A Gmail first Strategy for Responsive Emails
#Design
50 Key Graphic Design Terms Explained Simply For Non-Designers (pretty useful for students as well)
#responsive
10 Shortcuts for Effective Responsive Design, I really like tip 3. Don’t Use Mocks of Every Single Page
#Prototyping
Effective Prototyping: efficient, expressive, used as a communication tool.
#A11y
HTML For Screen Readers – Labelling Elements
#Mobile #User Testing
My Users Told Me They Wanna Shop Around: An In-the-Wild Shopping Study
#Font #Performance
Using web fonts the best way in 2015
Inspiration and Great ideas
#Typography
Really interesting to see how typography works for non latin alphabet: Arabic Type Anatomy & Typographic Terms
#Coloring
Cute: Disney Has Invented 3D Coloring Books
Tutorials
#Sprite
An Introduction to Sprite Animation
Useful ressources, tools and plugins that will make your life easy
#Gradient
Blend an online tool to blend 2 colors into a gradient