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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: personas, UX, typography and performance, responsive emails in gmail, why your users are lazy, a little bit of quick prototyping, design terms explained to non designers, non latin alphabet typography and a little tool to create nice gradients.

TL;DNR the one you should not miss

#Human Behaviors

Why Designers Think Users Are Lazy: 3 Human Behaviors, very interesting read

Interesting article

#Persona

How to Make a UX Research Persona video, Part 1 of 2: primary and secondary sources of data

 

#Email

Yup, responsive emails are still a mess: A Gmail first Strategy for Responsive Emails

#Design

50 Key Graphic Design Terms Explained Simply For Non-Designers (pretty useful for students as well)

#responsive

10 Shortcuts for Effective Responsive Design, I really like tip 3. Don’t Use Mocks of Every Single Page

#Prototyping

Effective Prototyping: efficient, expressive, used as a communication tool.

#A11y

HTML For Screen Readers – Labelling Elements

#Mobile #User Testing

My Users Told Me They Wanna Shop Around: An In-the-Wild Shopping Study

#Font #Performance

Using web fonts the best way in 2015

Inspiration and Great ideas

#Typography

Really interesting to see how typography works for non latin alphabet: Arabic Type Anatomy & Typographic Terms

#Coloring

Cute: Disney Has Invented 3D Coloring Books

Tutorials

#Sprite

An Introduction to Sprite Animation

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

#Gradient

Blend  an online tool to blend 2 colors into a gradient

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Published on 16 October 2015

in Pixels of the Week (curated newsletter)

By Stéphanie Walter