Pixels of the Week – June 9, 2017

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: performance, accessibility, productivity, pattern libraries, UI kits, labels and forms, data, colors, CSS Grid Layout, CSS Variables, etc.

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

TL;DNR the one you should not miss

#Labels #forms

Are Float Labels Really That Problematic After All? a reply to last week’s floating label article

Interesting article

#Performance

The Mindfulness of a Manual Performance Audit

#Accessibility

How Can I Make My Icon System Accessible?

#Productivity

Fuck Productivity. YES.

#Design #PatternLibraries

Great (long) read on Pattern Libraries 

#Design

This is what a brutalist world would look like on your phone haha, or wireframes made by students ^^

#Templates #UI

Some UI kits to design Apple products (iOS, etc.) available in Photoshop and Sketch

#Data

The Illusion of Measuring What Customers Want really interesting read here on quantitative data

#Bots

A guide to developing bot personalities – long and really interesting well documented read

Inspiration and Great ideas

#Colors #Inspiration

Color blends are back in fashion, and these 30 will give you a colorgasm

Tutorials

#CSS #GridLayout

Breaking out with CSS Grid explained by Rachel Andrew

#CSS #Variables
Locally Scoped CSS Variables: What, How, and Why by Una Kravets

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

#Colors #CSS

#c0ffee is the color, fun experiment with English words and CSS colors names

Fun, games, experiments and demos