Pixels of the Week – January 12, 2018
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: a lot of Sketch tips, an article on tiny wins, designing for friction, UX evaluation, UX conferences, emotes design by League of Legends, Illustration tips, some Front-End performance checklist, PWA, a cute little foxy 404, HTML5.2 news, responsive typography.
You can follow me on twitter to get a dose of links every days.
I wrote something this week
#Sketch
Quick trick: clean up Sketch useless symbol overrides in the panel
TL;DNR the one you should not miss
#UX
Tiny Wins, a nice article on how tiny wins will delight users in way you could not have imagined. For me it was the Spotify “I don’t like” button in weekly playlists, this little cross so drastically improved my experience 🙂
Interesting article
#UX
- Designing Friction For A Better User Experience. TLDNR: Eliminate Unwanted Friction, Embrace Good Friction
- Evaluating UX: Would you buy a home without an inspection?
- The best UX and design conferences in 2018 – the definitive guide
- The human side of emotes, on League of Legends emojis user testing <3
#Illustration
- 5 Basic Tips for Illustrating – Tips and tricks that most people wouldn’t highlight when illustrating.
- Challenge: To create an illustration style.
- If like me you love maps, this article will be really pleasing: Mapbreaking
#Front-End
- Careful Now, is chrome really becoming the new IE?
- “I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site. Here’s how.”
Interesting, if that’s possible, hum, hard time - Front-End Performance Checklist 2018 [PDF, Apple Pages] (and there’s a small link to my slides on cheating the UX inside, will you spot it? :D)
#Mobile #PWA
- Every project a Progressive Web App, interesting examples of slowly injecting #PWA features in different projects
- M-Commerce: Terrible UX
#Ressources
webgdedeck.com, a deck with the articles and conferences of GDE members
Inspiration, fun demos and Great ideas
#Illustration
This 404 is foxy puuurfekt
Webdesign news
#HTML5
What’s New in HTML 5.2? Whooot <dialog> tags !!!
Tutorials
#CSS
Responsive Typography Using Modern CSS, interesting ways to use calc()
#Sketch
“Some great tips to create a Sketch Library” some really cool nice tips if you start using Sketch
