Pixels of the Week – February 20, 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: the state of the web in China, icones and user experience, nice panda cookies, some graphic design cards, an app to find your friends in the crowd, some tutorials and ressources to help you with CSS animations, CSS length, two nice fonts for your projects and an online too to find CC0 pictures.
TL;DNR the one you should not miss
#CSS
CSS Ruler, a little tool to better understand different CSS units
Interesting article
#Design #China
Nice to see what’s going on in other countries: China Design Trends among which a huge mobile only use of the web. Quote: “If your website doesn’t work in WeChat’s native browser, it will be irrelevant to the Chinese marketplace.”
#The Web
Some morning love: This is still a motherfucking website, an answer to motherfuckingwebsite.com
#Icons
Share, play, bluetooth, usb and power: 5 Confusing Icons and Their History
#UX #Icons
Testing Accordion Menu Designs & Iconography
Inspiration and Great ideas
#Cookies
Valentine’s Day Panda Bear Cookies!
#App
Find friends instantly with LookFor, the world’s dumbest app!
#CSS
Animated Text Fills on Codrops
#Design
Lovely idea: Graphic Design Pun Cards
Tutorials
#CSS Animation
Animating List Items (in CSS)
Useful ressources
#Formulaires
WTF form? Friendlier HTML form controls with a little CSS magic. Designed for IE9+
#Font
Moon, simple rounded free typeface (for personal use)
Serendipity Script, a nice free cursive typeface
#RWD
44 Responsive Web Design Resources: The Ultimate List, some really usefull resources if you have not started yet to get interested in responsive web design
#Mobile
When do people use different devices?
Tools and plugins that will make your life easy
#Photos
Stocksnap.io another online tool to find some free pictures under CC0 licence
#Android
AndroidLibs, all the Android libs and tools in one place
Fun, games and impressive demos
#Troll #jQuery
There’s a jQuery plugin for that
#German
This is the how the German language figured out gender for nouns.