Pixels of the Week – April 16, 2016

Pixels of the Week – April 16, 2016

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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: Fast CSS animations and CSS transform explained, CSS native mixines and variables, the power of web apps, optical logo corrections, enhancing UX with typography, form best practise, an introduction to visual hierarchy, developing a designer eye, a nice read on best practice and a site to learn design facts. In the ressource section you will find some books, mobile inspiration, a Photoshop script for creating glitch art and a aweful but fun tool to automatically generate logos (if you want to procrastinate today)

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

TL;DNR the one you should not miss

#Animations

Fast CSS animations, a library that don’t cause reflows and repaints of a website when used correctly.

Interesting article

#Mobile

Native or Not? The Untapped Power of Web Apps: currently working on an hybrid app, many great resources linked

#Design

Optical corrections in logo design, the black and white trick is pretty interesting

#Form

Web Form Design Best Practices: 5 Useful UI Patterns

#Design

The Design School Guide To Visual Hierarchy

#CSS

When will vanilla CSS be good enough to replace Sass, Less, Stylus, and the rest?

#Front-end

Interesting pro/con comparison: iframe, or not, that is the question

#typography #UX

Typography tips for a better user experience

 

#Design

Nice article if you are looking for ways to enhance your design skills: Developing your eye for design

#Design

The Road to Mediocrity Is Paved with Best Practices sometimes best practice is not what will work best for your company specific needs

#a11y

15 Website Accessibility Tips That Increase Everyone’s Engagement

Designer news

#Google

Google now blocks searchers from sites with deceptive download buttons

Inspiration and Great ideas

#Portoflio

Hahaha not a bad idea for a about me page davidprati.fr   ^^

#Design

Pretty cool platform to learn about design history: Design Facts

#Illustration

Ow <3 Alphabet Illustrations

#Mobile

If you are looking for design and mobile inspiration, here’s a nice list of sites and blogs to follow

Tutorials

#API

Record almost everything in the browser with MediaRecorder

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

#Books

MOOOOAAAR books: 50 essential books every graphic designer should read

 

#Action #Photoshop

Free Pixel Sorting Photoshop Action for Creating Glitch Art

#CSS

Styleguide – Living Styleguide Made Easy

#Website Cost

How much does a website cost? An online calculator (useful questions to help you)

#CSS

CSS Pseudo, presentation on CSS pseudo classes and pseudo elements

Fun, games, experiments and demos

#Spotify

Somebody made a responsive version of the artiste page of Spotify

#Logo

Procrastination time: yet another online logo generator