Pixels of the Week: Web Design links not to miss – March 21, 2014
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. I decided to put them all together in one place at the end of the week, in case you missed some. They are classified in different categories with some tags so that you can quickly select what you are interested in. Happy reading.
Articles to read
#Responsive Webdesign
“RWD and design” and why designers and devs need to work closely together to push boundaries
#User Testing
User Testing: Did they do it right ?! – User Testing is not you testing the users, it’s the users testing your
#UX
Shortening UX to UI time: a different approach to MVP design: paper sketching, Illustrator wireframes, prototype with Marvel and styleguide.
#UX
4 Design Patterns That Violate Back-Button Expectations and some advice on how to fix them
#Mobile App
“Two types of mobile apps” and some advice on how to provide great experience for both
Inspiration
#Food
“Food Maps”, some beautiful maps made of food pictures
#Social
Social Networks Series of Illustrations by Ivan Belikov des réseaux sociaux illustrés par des insects très colorés
#Beer
RuTT Beer Brewery packaging
#Typography
Accidental Typographer: daily (15 minute-ish) typographic trials in handwritten lettering since January 2012
#Advertisement
Fit’s Link Cm, a totally FTW advertisement made in Asia
#Poster
The client is always… une collection de poster funs avec quelques citations de clients
Tutorials
#SVG
28 Tutorials about SVG Images in Web Design
#Transition
Item Transition Inspiration on Codrops
#Photoshop
Photoshop Tip: Transforming a layer to an exact pixel size — not just percentage (1″11)
#Animation
Some tips and example on 3D UI animation
Useful ressources
#Android Wear
Design Principles of Android Wear if you are looking forward to designing for the brand new Android OS for wearable objects
#Font
Comicsanscriminal.com fonts have personaly and so does comic sans, a nice site to educate people on when to use it and when not.
Freebies
#Font
10 Best New Free Fonts (I really like the fun look of the Tesla ^^)
Tools and plugins that will make your life easy
#Paper
gridzzly.com an online tool to create custom and print your own dot or line paper grid
Fun and impressive demos
#Game
Flappy 20481 a little bit rocratination that mixes somes games. And if you want more, internets are crazy so you get the Doge version !
You should not miss
#Music
Morning folks, here’s a UX Rap: life’s too short for crappy UX !
