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Week 23
Highlights of the week ↘
Introducing Mercury OS - A speculative vision of the operating system, driven by humane design principles. Nine months ago, I set out… -
Dos and don’ts on designing for accessibility - Karwai Pun is an interaction designer currently working on Service Optimisation to make existing and new services better… -
Uibot: Infinite UI designs - What if we could replace the process of designing UIs with, well, bots? What if you could have… -
Design ↘
Is ‘the fold’ still a thing in today’s scrolling and skimming culture? - We skim through text and scroll naturally through endless content, so does it mean that ‘above the fold’… -
Hamburger menu UX: too ubiquitous to fail? - Everyone has a chair in their house where they just throw random things. Coats, bags, sunglasses, books –… -
Why you should design an ending for your experience - Years ago, pre-web and pre-apps, I used to do print creating posters, ads, flyers, and record covers. The… -
Making more informed design judgements - Have you ever looked at a design, read an article or tweet from a designer, or seen an… -
Development ↘
Self-host your static assets - One of the quickest wins—and one of the first things I recommend my clients do—to make websites faster… -
CSS Grid generator - This project is a way for people to use CSS Grid features quickly to create dynamic layouts. You… -
Everything you ever wanted to know about inputmode - The inputmode global attribute provides a hint to browsers for devices with onscreen keyboards to help them decide… -
Meet the Flexbox Inspector - CSS Grid is the new kid on the block, bringing with it many shiny new tools that make… -
Tools and resources ↘
Welcome Overflow 1.0 - Over the past year, we've been working hard to deliver the ideal platform for product design teams to… - Sponsored
UX Bites - Large Design community on instagram with daily bites of UX wisdom, insights and free resources. Printable UX freebies… -
useAnimations - Animated icons in Lottie Framework and After Effects for immediate implementation to your apps or websites. -
What the Figma? - Thoughts on design software and why we migrated the Unsplash Design Library to Figma. There was a time… -
CSS Transform Playground - Online tool to visualize 2D & 3D CSS3 Transform functions. Demo UI built with Vue, Gulp and LESS.… -
Inspiration and creativity ↘
Dealing with deadlines as a designer - Designers always fear the two D’s the most. Developers and the Deadlines. While the former can somehow be… -
Expanding an illustration style - It’s easy to create an icon style, but how do you go about pushing it to its limits?… -
Personal development ↘
The most successful people are the ones you’ve never heard of - The vast majority of successful people who ever lived are people you’ve never heard of. If we are… -
Moving design decisions from ego-centered to user-centered - How to use behavior design to drive change in your team and organization. Hi everyone, Kevin here. Following… -
Last but not least ↘
W3C and WHATWG to work together to advance the open web platform - I am pleased to announce that W3C and the WHATWG have just signed an agreement to collaborate on… -
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