Pixels of the Week – December 11, 2015

Pixels of the Week – December 11, 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: really interesting CSS ressources and tutorials (vertical-align, blend-mode, performance, etc.), a little bit of UX design, cognitive psychology and neuroscience, tips on using transparent backgrounds and great general design advice, web performance but also typography ressources.

TL;DNR the one you should not miss

#Design

A comprehensive, well considered list of things designers simply can’t do -> we should send this to some clients / managers I guess

handicapped

Interesting article

#Design

Good Design – “You know you have a good design when you show it to people and they say, “oh, yeah, of course,” like the solution was obvious.”

good-design

#CSS #Performance

An Introduction to Hardware Acceleration with CSS Animations

css-animation

#Design

Holding Off on High Fidelity – How sketching can improve your design process

highfidelity

#Design #UX

How to maintain product UX consistency? (using atomic design)

ux-consistency

 

#UX

How to Do a UX Review

ux-review

#Marketing

Online Manipulation: All The Ways You’re Currently Being Deceived, an analysis with a few examples of deceptive patterns in webdesign

online-manipulation

#Typography

Get Expressive with Your Typography

typography-expressive

#Design

How to effectively use transparent backgrounds in graphic design with very nice examples

background-image

#Neuroscience

How Your Brain Decides Without You, an article on neuroscience

deception

 

#CSS

Caring about OpenType Features

#UX

Cognitive Psychology for UX: The Principle of Least Effort,

#Design

The secrets to effective card-based design

Designer news

#CSS

CSS font-display property is now available in Chrome Canary! \o/

css-fontdisplay

Inspiration and Great ideas

#Color

Pantone unveils two colors of the year for 2016

panton2016

#Gifts

10 of the Best Christmas Gifts for UX Designers (I want the stencils ^^)

ux-gifs

#Calendar

A Type of Advent Calendar, for my typography nerd friends 🙂

typocal

#Airbnb

Starbnb.co,  looking for a place to stay for a weekend on Tatooine ?

starbnb

#Animations

Animation in Responsive Design <3

animations-rwd

Tutorials

#CSS

Animation pannel in FirefoxDevTool

#Blend Mode

Love those kind of articles trying to explain blend modes with maths since I’m just “used to how it will look” as a designer

css-blendmodes

#CSS #Performance

The “Blur Up” Technique for Loading Background Images – I’m wondering how actual users perceive those blurry images

#CSS

The vertical-align Property explained 🙂

Fun, games, experiments and demos

#Web

Want a taste of the old web today?  oldweb.today

oldweb

#WTF

Look mum, I’m not a cyber criminal, just a designer, ok ?

cybercrime