Pixels of the Week – April 8, 2016

Pixels of the Week – April 8, 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: lightweight personas, design research, UX project failures and how to avoid those, 5 UX plays to help you in your design, form subscription analysis and optimization and a nice read on accessibility. If you’re into code, there’s an article on Safari’s shrink-to-fit, web typography, and a CSS flexbox tutorial without flexbox. And don’t miss this week’s ebooks (both free and cheap) selection.

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

TL;DNR the one you should not miss

#UX #Ebooks

Okay, you might want to bookmark this: 137 FREE ebooks on User Experience, Usability, User Interface Design and more

Interesting article

#Accessibility

Interesting great read on accessibility: The Veil of Ignorance

#UX #Research

So your boss doesn’t believe in design research

#UX

Five Approaches To Creating Lightweight Personas

#UX

5 Reasons Freelance UX Projects Fail

#CSS

Interesting, but careful with accessibility: Changing the Cursor with CSS for Better User Experience (or Fun)

#Apple #Responsive

The Problem with iOS Safari and shrink-to-fit: so basically devs were doing it wrong, so Apple created a new value for the viewport meta?

#Web

The web will be so much better when… by Jeremy Keith.

#UX

Quite useful tricks: 5 UX plays to start your design on good tracks

#Form #Conversion #Usability

3 Common SaaS Sign-Up Flows (and a Friction-Based Analysis)

Designer news

#Books

Five Simple Steps authors have got together to sell their books, now that the company has closed.

 

#Etsy

Ohh this is going to get interesting: “Turn your Etsy shop into your own website with Pattern”

Inspiration and Great ideas

#Logo

Interesting instagram account: Logoarchive, a study of form language in logo design.

Tutorials

#CSS

CSS Typography: Kerning, Ligatures, Swashes & Small-Caps

#CSS #Table

Hahaha: Almost complete guide to flexbox (without flexbox)

 

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

#Color

Color Crush, the tinder for color lovers

#Typography

I’ll leave this enormous list of web typography ressources here, just in case 🙂

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Published on 8 April 2016

in Pixels of the Week (curated newsletter)

By Stéphanie Walter