Pixels of the Week: Web Design links not to miss – October 24, 2014

Pixels of the Week: Web Design links not to miss – October 24, 2014

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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: Apple and burger icon, public wifi security, mobile ergonomics and touch areas, cognition and UX, what would happen if we printed 1year of Instagram pictures, a nice lettering project, online tool to generate CSS clip-path, some freebies and a cursor game to help you procrastinate like a boss this morning.

TL;DNR the one you should not miss

#Burger Menu

Interesting thoughts: Apple could not be clearer: don’t use hamburgers menus on iOS.

 don’t use hamburgers menus on iOS.

Interesting article

#Mobile

Mobile UI ergonomics: How hard is it really to tap different areas of your phone interface? small experiement on iPhone5 to see which zones on the phone are easier to reach than others

Mobile UI ergonomics: How hard is it really to tap different areas of your phone interface?

#Wifi

Maybe Better If You Don’t Read This Story on Public WiFi” : the author spend an afternoon with a hacker in public places to see what potential damages he could do using public wifi.

Maybe Better If You Don’t Read This Story on Public WiFi

#Responsive

So what does a £60m responsive website new website look like ? The B&Q’s new site reviewed

A quoi ressemble un redesign responsive à  £60m ?

#E-commerce

Web Design and Checkout Abandonment – Tips & Insights in some simple infographics

Web Design and Checkout Abandonment – Tips & Insights

#Cognition

Cognition & The Intrinsic User Experience

Cognition & The Intrinsic User Experience

Inspiration and Great ideas

#Lettering

Will letter for lunch“, a nice and yumi project

Will letter for lunch

#Case Study

That’s a nice case study: the new UX and UI for Google News platform

The new UX and UI for Google News platform

#Instagram

Photos of the Web If you printed off the 21.9 billion Instagram photos uploaded to in a year, it would reach 6,351 kilometres.

Photos of the Web

#Wireframing

Interesting idea between low and high fidely: Paper prototype animation – with voice-over

Paper prototype animation - with voice-over

Tutorials

#Critical Path #performance

Critical Path Performance Optimization at Pony Foo

Useful ressources

#Cursors

Quick reminder of available cursors

Un petit rappel illustré des différents curseurs disponibles en web

Tools and plugins that will make your life easy

#css

Online tool to generate CSS clip-path

Outil en ligne pour générer les CSS clip-path

#Touch Icon

Freebie: Touch Gesture Icons

#Chrome #A11Y

NoCoffee, a vision problems simulator for Chrome

Fun, games and impressive demos

#Game

Morning procrastination: cursor multiplayer game

Cursor