The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2016/08/04

medium.com

On Joining Stack Overflow as a Designer

I joined Stack Overflow about two months ago as a product designer. This post is about what it was like adapting to the culture and the challenges I encountered. About Me Since 2001, I've worked in-house for various companies. For 15 years, I worked next to my co-workers and was able to tap someone on the shoulder whenever I wanted.

codepen.io

CSS only scroll indicator

I was interested to see if I could make a scroll indicator with just CSS. You can! But you probably shouldn't. This is an interesting consequence of a...

medium.com

Design Better Data Tables

Poor tables. Where did they go wrong? After being the bread and butter of the web for most of its early history, tables were cast aside by many designers for newer, trendier layouts. But while they might be making fewer appearances on the web these days, data tables still collect and organize much of the information we interact with on a day-to-day basis.

dribbble.com

Facebook Design Critique Take 2

Critique is a fundamental part of the design process. At Facebook, we're about to kick-off our second open design critique and would like to invite designers like you to contribute work. All it ta...

dropbox.com

Dropbox Paper

Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. Never email yourself a file again!

try.typography.com

Try.Typography: experiment with Hoefler & Co. fonts in the browser

Test fonts from H&Co in the browser, and create complex layouts using any of the more than 1,000 fonts in our collection.

viget.com

User Memory Design: How To Design For Experiences That Last

Understanding the difference between experience and memory can make us more sophisticated experience designers.

medium.com

Explaining Graphic Design to a Five Year Old

Design 4 Kids Kids are naturally curious about what their parents do for a living, and when we try to explain it to them (or even some adults) our explanations generally fall into one of two categories: lengthy and overly informative or hasty and placating. You have to find the middle ground.

sharingbuttons.io

Social Media Sharing Buttons

Super fast and easy Social Media Sharing Buttons. No JavaScript. No tracking.