Pixels of the Week – January 20, 2017

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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: a tool to help you build accessible color palettes, usability on instagram, action buttons in dialog boxes and form placeholders, a few cool Sketch techniques, icon design, responsive workflow, critical rendering path, SVG tips for designers, ideation and how to get started in UX. There’s also a few interesting tutorials on making a site work offline and WebSockets and a tool to schedule user testing sessions for instance.

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

TL;DNR the one you should not miss

#Accessibility

Haaan this is soo cool, an Accessible color palette builder ??

Interesting article

#Instagram

A Usability Test on the Instagram iOS App with some interesting solutions

#Form

Let the Action Buttons in the Dialog Box Scream its Outcome, on modal action button verbs

#Sketch

This is, without a doubt, the coolest Sketch technique you’ll see all day., really nice techniques and this is also why we need a better way to override colors in symbols

#Social #Conferences

Please people, read this: Alcohol and Inclusivity: Planning Tech Events with Non-Alcoholic Options

#Icons #Design

8 simple steps to better icon design

#Responsive

How to Design a Large Scale Responsive Site, really nice to read such a detailed process ?

#SVG

How Designers Should Think About SVG, great long but useful read

#Critical

Understanding the Critical Rendering Path

#UX #Ideation

Ideation for Everyday Design Challenges

#Form #Placeholders

13 reasons why placeholders are problematic

#Performance

A Designer’s Guide to Perceived Performance

#Security

The Line of Death, fascinating article on UI and security

#UX

If you are a student (or else) looking for some answers on how to get started in UX design

Inspiration and Great ideas

#Porfolio

Fun old school folio experience: headofffice.com

Tutorials

#CSS #WebSockets

Making Magic with WebSockets and CSS3, really fun idea

#Service Workers

Making Resilient Web Design work offline with Service Workers

#Arrow #Sketch

Fantastic Flow Arrows for Sketch, hum, smart technique

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

#Clip

Clippy — CSS clip-path maker

#UX

usepowwow.com, a small app to help you schedule user testing for example

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Published on 20 January 2017

in Pixels of the Week (curated newsletter)

By Stéphanie Walter