The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2016/07/22

facebook.github.io

Origami Studio

Origami is a free tool for designing modern user interfaces.

medium.com

5 Ways to Keep Your Sketch Kitchen Clean

If you watch The Travel Channel or The Food Network as much as I do, you'll have seen plenty of amazing kitchens from the top restaurants around the world. Something they all have in common? Squeaky-clean kitchens.

medium.com

Dover: a look at the quintessential English typefaces

A strange match While typesetting a zine, I tried to match sans and serif faces, to make the most of a very cheap print. A lot of combinations are problematic, such as wildly varying vertical proportions - when you need to massively adjust the font size just so the sans doesn't look shouty next to the serif, for example.

fastcocreate.com

Least Creative Thing Of The Day: Zara Rips Off Indie Designer Tuesday Bassen's Work

Plagiarism is so hot right now. (Just ask Melania!) It's also not new. As long as people have been coming up with good ideas, other people have been passing those ideas off as their own, then shamelessly defending their right to do so.

medium.com

Redesigning The iTunes Web Preview

Don't you think the current iTunes Preview web page is kind of... old? I'm not sure when this version came out as I couldn't find any record in its history, but I remember the current design being around since I got my first iPhone in 2011 and wanted to download some apps.

stories.uplabs.com

Can you Code this UI Concept? Vol. 3

New UI concepts and their CodePen implementation.

developertown.com

UX Moments: How to identify, understand and leverage Moments to influence behavior

From Love + Radio: In the 1980s, Skid Row was still home to the poorest people in Los Angeles, but it also had a thriving avant garde theater scene. Actors like Tim Robbins, John Cusack, and Jeremy Piven got their start at the Wallenboyd, an experimental theater space at the corner of Wall and Boyd St., in the heart of Skid Row.

blog.invisionapp.com

VIDEO: How To Use The New Group & Symbol Resizing in Sketch 39

Sketch 39 is here-with a major new feature that'll change the way you approach your design work in Sketch: Group & Symbol resizing. In the past, resizing a group or symbol meant just stretching it out or scaling it up, but now we have 4 different choices for how the layers within a group can behave when the group itself is scaled.

intercom.io

The In-App Messenger for Business

The best way to talk directly to your customers in your product and on your website. Acquire, engage, and support customers with targeted, personal in-app messages

blog.framerjs.com

Introducing Framer for iOS

A brand new way to preview Framer designs in real-time, across all mobile iOS devices. Get the app for $9.99 to enjoy fully functional interactions with all your prototypes. Our goal with Framer has always been to build a full service design tool.