Pixels of the Week – October 27, 2017 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 resources, inspiration on twitter and other social networks.

This week’s selection: UX and perceived performance, common misconceptions about the UX, typography, UX metrics, resume tips, skeleton screens, material design, JavaScript for dinosaurs, CSS box shadow and drop shadow, nice CSS demos with tint and overlay, illustrator tutorial, dev tools, front-end checklists.

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

I Wrote something

#UX #Performance Cheating The UX When There Is Nothing More To Optimize, my talk on perceived performance at Smashing Conference

TL;DNR the one you should not miss

#UX

Hey, can you ‘do the UX’ for us?, excellent article on common misconceptions about the UX

Interesting article

#Typography

Your Guide for When to Use Despised Fonts, the second round is as hilarious as the first one 😀

#Great Advice

Confessions Of An Impostor, great article by @mishunov with actionable advice for once 🙂

#UX #UI

UX Maturity Model: A tool to improve collaboration with the UX team
5 Myths about UX metrics – mostly about costs and the time it takes
How to Use Topic Maps to Run Generative User Interviews – a really interesting method
Great tips for student and anybody designing their resume: How to make your resume as user-centred as you are

#Performance perception

A Bone to Pick with Skeleton Screen, some interesting tests and data
If you enjoy perceived performance, Material Design has an interesting solution for progressive image loading

#Front-end

Modern JavaScript Explained For Dinosaurs
A goodbye to Firebug. Kind of sad since it was one of the first tool I used when I started coding, so thank you ?

#CSS

#Illustration

How I became an Illustrator by discovering a new dimension – nice tips for people who suck at 3D like me 🙂

Inspiration and Great ideas

#CSS

Duotone images are so trendy right now, a nice CSS demo
CSS Tinted Background Overlay, so many cool things you can do directly in the browser

#Design

Haan love this studio, the site design and what they do

Tutorials

#Illustrator

llustrator quick tip I wish I knew sooner: how to draw a trapezoid

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