Thursday, June 28, 2018

๐Ÿ“ Issue #335: Essential Design Trends, Gov.uk Design System, GoDaddy’s Rebrand, Brush Ninja, and more…

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NEWSLETTER ISSUE #335 JUNE 28, 2018
​monday.com - A Revolutionary Visual Project Management Tool

monday.com is a project management tool your team will actually enjoy using. It makes it fun and easy for everyone to collaborate, focus on what's important, and get more done at work. It's a visual project management tool that'll help you and your team collaborate and achieve more together. Try it now - AD

Essential Design Trends, July 2018

Our latest monthly roundup of the styles to expect over the coming four weeks is here, and this month the trends include interactive layers, three-column text blocks, and Fifa World Cup fever. Take a browse through the trends we think will be big in July, and find some inspiration for your latest design project.

Brush Ninja

Brush Ninja is an incredible tool for designing animated Gifs. Built with HTML and JavaScript, it functions on any device. Simply draw on the canvas, then duplicate the frame and keep working, or create an entirely new frame. Preview your Gif online and easily export your work. Brushes, colors, and even onion-skinning are all supported.

Hot CSS Tips

CSS is a surprisingly complex and wide-ranging language, with more hidden-gems than you'd expect. Mattia Astorino walks us through some of his hottest tips for coding CSS with this hand-curated collection of snippets. Highlights include controlling the scroll-snapping of elements, and how to shape text.

Beginner's Guide to A/B Testing

Testing your designs is an essential step in ensuring you're delivering a user-friendly product. But testing often seems complex to the uninitiated. Paul Boag looks at A/B and Multivariate testing, and offers some invaluable advice for beginners on how to get started with this staple of any professional designer's process.

Get 50 Custom Clear Labels from StickerMule for just $9

This fantastic Mighty Deal from StickerMule will get you 50 Custom Clear Labels on a durable material with a UV finish, measuring 3" x 3". They're printed in full color, plus white ink for a "no label" type of appearance. Includes free worldwide shipping, online proofs, artwork setup and a super fast 4-day turnaround. See this deal - AD

Gov.uk Design System

Design systems are a smart way to deliver consistency across large-scale projects. Famed for its approach to UX, the gov.uk design team released its own design system this week. It includes design patterns to help users complete tasks, and reusable components. It's a great resource for anyone working on complex projects.

The Unseen Value of Brand Design

Designing and maintaining a successful brand is so much more than picking out a cool typeface and some trendy colors, especially when you need that brand to carry your company across territories. Damien Terwagne looks at consistency, velocity, value, and opportunities in relation to brand design, in this in-depth post.

The EU Breaks the Web Again

If you enjoyed the GDPR-chaos last month, you're going to love the EU's latest legislation. The EU's new Copyright Directive legislation has only passed the first steps towards becoming law, but if ratified it could mean purchasing a licence for anything you link to, and mandatory copyright checks on anything you upload.

The State of Ecommerce Search

Over the past 17 years the Nielsen Norman Group has been conducting studies into search on ecommerce sites. In its latest report, it finds that the best ecommerce tools are easy to find, return more relevant results than they used to, and rely heavily on autosuggestions to help users find the content they'e looking for.

GoDaddy's New Logo

Internet original GoDaddy launched a new brand this week. The logotype is virtually identical, other than a fresh coat of green paint, but gone is the MS Paint-style character. Brand New discusses whether dropping the 90s guy from the logo is a good thing for GoDaddy, or whether the web lost a little more character this week.

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