The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2016/08/10

westonthayer.com

Layout experiments in Adobe Illustrator

As designers, we need tools that expose us to layout, that let us test and explore layout variations, and most importantly make the best decisions. Today, tools like Antetype, Figma, Adobe XD, and Affinity Designer are leading the way with innovative layout features that can save us from tedious tasks like updating the same margin 20 times or the pain of scaling one design to different device sizes.

alistapart.com

Practical SVG

by Published in Chris Coyier Browsers , CSS , Responsive Design You'll probably want to exert some sizing control over any graphic you put on a website. Hey! You! Logo! You should be this size: .logo { width: 220px; height: 80px; } And so shall it be.

backchannel.com

Saudi Millennials Don't Use Their Phones Like We Do

F ifteen minutes before Lauren Serota's Lufthansa flight landed in Riyadh, the female passengers stood and moved to the bathroom. Most had been wearing Western clothes - jeans, blouses, and gold jewelry. They returned in black abayas and head scarves (hijabs), some wearing face coverings (niqabs). The context switch was dramatic and immediate.

allthefreestock.com

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medium.com

Designing a Flexible Organism for a Hotel Search Website

A case study about redesigning the item element of the hotel search result list on trivago's website. A few months ago, we at trivago - the hotel metasearch website - established the first version of the styleguide and the pattern library by using the Atomic Design methodology .

medium.com

Reverse Engineering the InVision Interface

You have to take things apart to really understand why they work I visit dribbble a couple times a week. It is extremely important for me to see how other designers approach problems, and how their designs evolve. I typically spend a minute or two on each design trying to soak up everything I can.

interfacelovers.com

Interview with Benjamin De Cock

In theory, I'm supposed to be a User Interface Designer. In practice, I constantly switch between UI design, front-end development, good ol' web design, information architecture, prototyping, motion design, and even some 3D lately! Microsoft FrontPage! Joking aside, the ability to produce something and make it instantly available to everyone across the globe was fascinating to me back then, and still is today!

fractal.build

Fractal