Pixels of the Week – January 30, 2015

Pixels of the Week – January 30, 2015

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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: password masking/showing, overriding native UI components, windows modals on mobile, designer process explained in an image, some illustrations, video and comic strip, CSS3 animations for UX designers, a tool to serve UX to clients and CSS blending modes.

TL;DNR the one you should not miss

#SVG

SVG all the things!! The ultimate guide to SVG with many many links and ressources

The ultimate guide to SVG

Interesting article

#Design

Showing Passwords on Log-In Screens – “Quite quickly I came to see password-masking as a rut. A design pattern that has been around so long that no one thinks about it much. We all just go through the motions when assembling a log-in screen and add password-masking by default. Lost business and usability issues just come along for the ride.”

Showing Passwords on Log-In Screens

#UX #Custom elements

When to Override Native UI Components: overriding natives UI elements is not always a good solution. The article provided examples on when and how to do it to enhance user experience

When to Override Native UI Components

#Usability

Why You Should Avoid Using Modal Windows on Mobile

#CSS3 #Animations #UX

Delighting Users Through CSS Animation Techniques, ConveyUX – slides and demos

Delighting Users Through CSS Animation Techniques, ConveyUX - slides et demos

 

Inspiration and Great ideas

#Process

How designer work: some illustration to understand the design process

How designer work

#Video

Forgot to tell you, but the Icelandair security instruction video is very clever and well thought

icelandair security

#Illustration

iacopobruno.blogspot.fr, some book packaging illustration <3

iacopobruno.blogspot.fr

#Comic Strip

I recently discovered oglaf.com an online comic strip that mixes SF and NSFW little stories 🙂

oglaf

#Super Heros

Window washers at a children’s hospital dressed as super heros diserves eternel respect

superheros

#UX

UX explained in one image

UX explained

Tutorials

#CSS

Compositing And Blending In CSS by Sara Soueidan  (plus she created a nice tool to test blending mods )

Compositing And Blending In CSS

Tools and plugins that will make your life easy

#UX

Uxrecipe.github.io, time to serve some real UX with this little tool that could help you help clients understand the costs of UX

Uxrecipe.github.io