Pixels of the Week – January 29, 2016 by Stéphanie Walter

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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: mobile design, priming and limited attention principles, designing read receipts, HTML5 APIs like speech, push and offline are slowly arriving in the browser, some Illustrator responsive icons tutorials, animated SVG, a nice font, a site to find design pattern inspiration, a performance budget tool, some online UX lessons, learning CSS layout, a few mobile icon apps templates and the internet love story between cats and JavaScript frameworks.

TL;DNR the one you should not miss

#Industry

If you only read one article this week, it should be this one: The High Price of Free by @rachelandrew

Interesting article

#Firefox #Speech API

Firefox and the Web Speech API, plus a fun demo to yell colors at your computer

#Mobile

As Mobile Screen Size Increases… So does activity

#Mobile

6 Assumptions That Kill Your Mobile App Design

#Product #Design

Product Principles: Read Receipts, on designing a read receipt system for a messenger

#UX

Priming and User Interfaces: exposure to a stimulus influences behavior in subsequent, possibly unrelated tasks. This is called priming

#UX #Icons

Where to Place Your Accordion Menu Icons (tldnr: on the left ans use a + button instead of an arrow)

#UX

Cognitive Psychology and UX: The Principle of Limited Attention

Designer news

#Push

Web Push Arrives in Firefox 44

Tutorials

#Illustrator

Prepping Icons with Pathfinder

#Service Worker

Create a really, really simple offline page using Service Workers

#Icon #Responsive

Tips On How To Create a Responsive Icons

#SVG #Animation

Creating loading button with SVG and segment + demo

#AI #SVG

Quick Tip: exporting a SVG with a pattern that works in IE/Edge from Illustrator CC 2015

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

#Font

Overpassfont.org an open source webfont family inspired by Highway Gothic 🙂

#UI

uigarage.net, a site that curates specific mobile and web design patterns for your inspiration.

#Performance

Performance builder budget tool, a tool that lets you lay out your template types, set a size budget for each template type, then plug in the sizes for each asset category that will load in the template