 | | | NEWSLETTER ISSUE #346 | |  | SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 | |
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| | | | | | | | | Animation & UX UI animation can make or break your design. Get animation right, and you'll create a living, engaging site, that users will delight in; Get animation wrong and you'll end up with a confusing, poorly-performing mess. Taras Skytskyi's comprehensive guide will have you tweening, and onion-skinning with the pros. | |
| | | | | | What's New for Designers, September 2018 Our monthly guide to the best tools and resources for designers, released in the previous four weeks, is here. September's installment includes an asset management tool, some unique icons, an SVG playground, some fun 90s-flavor dancing code, and as always some really awesome fresh fonts, to brighten up the Fall. | |
| | | | | | Color Leap Color is one of the central elements of any design, but what's popular has changed over the years. Color Leap is an awesome resource that showcases the popular color palettes of decades (and centuries) past. Pick an era, read about the design scene at the time, and toggle between contemporary images, and their palettes. | |
| | | | | | Design with Difficult Data So, you've been asked to design a profile screen, you're going to need a fake user, a fake user profile picture, perhaps even a fake user job description. Steven Garrity looks at how the choice of fake data affects the final design, and asks whether we should amend fake data to fit our preferred designs in this week's must-read post. | |
| | | | | | Killing the URL Chris Coyier reports on a worrying trend in browsers: First Safari, and now Chrome are hiding full URLs. Leaving users to be dependent on website navigation, and sacrificing an essential component in usability. Is this a silly UI trend, or a move away from an open, transparent web? Only time will tell. | |
| | | | | | The Fundamental Job of Design is Not Great Design Most designers enter the field with the hope, if not expectation, of emulating design greats like Saul Bass or Paul Rand. But according to Karl Fast, great design is not the principle purpose of designers; in this punchy post, he argues that design is about integration with the organization it serves, organizational transformation, and evolving itself. | |
| | | | | | 9 Tips for Designing Faster Efficient design is the cornerstone of every successful designer's practice; not only does working at pace keep you competitive, it keeps you sane. For anyone who finds themselves taking days over design layouts, Jon Moore has 9 tips to get you working at a professional pace, from implementing styles, to working consistently. | |
| | | | | | The Web Design Museum The Web Design Museum is a collection of 900 "carefully selected" web sites that showcases the online design trends from 1995–2005. Included are Google's first site from 1998, The Government of Québec's 1995 site, and countless examples of what we'd now term brutalism. It's a fascinating collection for anyone working on the web. | |
| | | | | | Complete Guide to CSS Scroll Snap Scrolling may be the most intuitive interaction on the web, but until recently it was relatively primitive. NewInWeb takes a look at CSS' new Scroll Snap properties; a native way to control where users' scroll to, enabling the kind of slideshows and single-page experiences that until now, depended on JavaScript. | |
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