Dropbox made a presentation to explain Figma to people seeing it for the first time.
On four professional biases that keep designers from doing good work. Keep your own biases in mind, and those of the people you work with, to build better products.
Uniwidth fonts. Characters have different widths, but each one keeps its width across weights.
An easy way to resize lots of images!
It has cool features like compression settings, WebP export and automatic focal point detection.
It has cool features like compression settings, WebP export and automatic focal point detection.
A simple, handy way to resize images.
William Rust has redone his site more than once, and every time it came out pretty great. Who knows what it’ll look like in a couple of years?
Anime time? A simple, gorgeous site for an animation library.
Red Collar translated lots of useful articles for Deadsign magazine (RIP). Including this one on a key designer skill: communication and presentation.
A big, complex and maybe the best article about color. It covers physics, biology, color spaces and color perception. No psychology, no sappy color theory.
Smooth draggable images in a beautiful demo.
A really beautiful WebGL cube. You know, I just love glass, reflections, refraction and all that.
And if you’ve decided to check contrast, aim for the APCA standard — it’s a realistic one. Most tools are complicated, but this checker is reasonably pleasant.
A contrast checker that also shows how a color pair looks with different kinds of color blindness, glaucoma, poor eyesight and screen glare.
Fun UX breakdowns of different user flows, with a dash of humor.
There’s also UX Bites — tiny examples of cool solutions.
And yes, there’s a nice email newsletter.
There’s also UX Bites — tiny examples of cool solutions.
And yes, there’s a nice email newsletter.
UX case studies told as slide stories. Next to them, reference material on psychology, with examples.
You can subscribe and read it like a newspaper.
You can subscribe and read it like a newspaper.
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Bright squiggly shapes for colorful projects. The pack’s authors use them beautifully on their own site.
Bright squiggly shapes for colorful projects. The pack’s authors use them beautifully on their own site.
A soft shadow generator built from several stacked drop shadows.
https://shadows.brumm.af/ (Figma plugin)
https://shadows.brumm.af/ (Figma plugin)
Clear differences between designing for Android and iOS. The article is from 2019 and Material has been updated twice since, but almost all the takes still hold up.
https://medium.com/design-pub/https-medium-com-rmrdesignlab-32-отличия-дизайна-моб-приложения-ios-android-5c9cbc90c4d (VC)
https://medium.com/design-pub/https-medium-com-rmrdesignlab-32-отличия-дизайна-моб-приложения-ios-android-5c9cbc90c4d (VC)
Immersive Garden tirelessly crank out sites for Awwwards. They’re good at it, and their own site turned out great.
A uniquely realistic space that “never was.” Gorgeous work by Maciej Rebisz of CD Projekt Red.
ArtStation / Space That Never Was
ArtStation / Space That Never Was
False facades as the simulacra of our lives. History, analysis and loads of photos.
A search engine that rounds up sound effects. Tick “High fidelity only” so you don’t stumble on really weird samples.
A really important article on color: optical physics, how colors interact, and the problems with color palettes.