Thursday, July 19, 2018

๐Ÿ“ Issue #338: The Font Memory Game, Unused CSS, WordPress in Under 7Kb, Choose the Right CMS, and more…

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NEWSLETTER ISSUE #338 JULY 19, 2018
The only project management tool built by designers for designers

Being an artist always involves planning your time and tasks masterly — yet no one can afford to lose a minute on learning a complicated interface. That's everything you can get from monday.com - Try it now - AD

Unused CSS

A staggering 35% of CSS is entirely redundant, bloating our files, and slowing our sites. UnusedCSS is an invaluable tool that analyses your code, finds and removes unused CSS rules, and outputs clean CSS for you to use. It can even scan your JavaScript files for CSS, and regularly check your site automatically.

Font Memory Game

When it comes to selecting typefaces, the design is in the details. Good designers train themselves to identify the slightest difference in letterforms. The Font Memory Game helps you learn to identify the tiny details in fonts, making you a better designer, and it's a fun challenge too! How many levels can you beat?

Delivering WordPress in 7kb

The web might seem environmentally friendly, but it burns through colossal amounts of energy; and the larger your site, the bigger its carbon footprint. For those that want to save the planet, and those that just want a faster UX, Jack Lenox explains how he has optimized WordPress to be delivered in just 7kb.

Draw inspiration anywhere with Affinity Designer for iPad

Take the full power of professional vector graphic design at your fingertips with Affinity Designer, the most ambitious creative app developed for iPad. It's available now with a launch discount of 30%, priced at $13.99/£13.99/€14.99 and no subscription. Buy now with 30% discount - AD

How Do You Create Fresh Designs Every Time?

Just how do you create fresh designs for a client, every single time. Anh Nguyen, Senior Designer at Ueno talks us through her process, from the initial research and evaluation phase, right through to enriching the UI with animation, and enlivening the brand. It's a must-read case study for anyone working in web design.

The Explosion of Design Tools Has Come at a Cost

For many designers, the most difficult part of the job is choosing the right design tool: should you specialize, or swap depending on the project at hand? With so many options to choose from it's often impossible to make a decision. Ben Blumenfeld explores the landscape of design tools, and offers some advice on picking a direction.

What's New for Designers, July 2018

Our monthly roundup of the best downloads for designers is back! This month you'll find some awesome free illustrations, time-saving scripts, tons of resources, gradients, some unbeatable apps, and as always, a host of cool new fonts. Dive in and start downloading, who said the Summer recess was upon us?

How Not to Suck at Feedback

Collaborative design is good design, and collaborative design depends on effective communication. Getting feedback is vital, and if you want to receive you have to learn to give. This quick guide will fill you in on three essential rules of great design feedback, that will benefit you and your whole team.

Teutonic CSS

Teutonic CSS is a wildly simple CSS framework to kick-start your development. Just 12kb of CSS delivers a whole toolbox of UI elements, all carefully documented to make adapting the code a cinch. Teutonic features the new CSS variables, global and local theming, and enough flexibility to adjust individual elements.

How to Choose the Right CMS

Content management systems are a baseline expectation for clients; without an efficient way to add content, sites quickly become obsolete. But with so many options to choose from, how do you pick the right CMS for your next project? Petr Palas casts a critical eye over the options, so you can make an informed choice.

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