The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2016/07/17

compressor.io

Compressor.io: optimize your images

Optimize and compress your images online. Compressor is a lossy and lossless photo compression tool.

snyk.io

Snyk's Style Guide

Pretty much the first thing I did when joining Snyk was to put together a rough front-end style guide. Having a style guide means we can assemble templates more quickly, and we're less likely to unintentionally build the same thing more than once.

uxdesign.cc

Little Big Details: Breaking Down One Piece of a Product Redesign

Scannability Just like in the inbox, people scan their reading list to see which things are interesting enough to open. Long ago while redesigning the inbox, we discovered that people scan each message in this order: Sender. If they're uninterested in that sender, they move on to the next message.

flixtape.netflix.com

Netflix Flixtape

When you make a Flixtape, you make a playlist curated by the one and only you.

medium.com

Resizing Tables with Sketch 39

Tables. cringe We hate them, but we can't live without them. They're definitely handy for displaying a lot of listed data in an organized way, but at the same time they just feel... meh πŸ˜‘ Personally, I've designed so many tables over the years.

medium.com

Redesigning Sidebar

Or why things can sometimes take longer than you expect... I recently launched Sidebar 2.0, a long-awaited update to Sidebar (it's a daily newsletter of the five best design links. Go sign up, you won't regret it!). I already talked a bit about the new version, but today I want to go more in-depth about the whole design and coding process.

medium.com

What we learned designing a car user experience

A five month graduate project by Luc van Loon At UNITiD we like to actively support internships and graduate projects. Often students come to us with interesting topics they want to explore. We support them throughout their project and as a result we gain new insights while the students learn and grow as a designer.