The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2016/09/03

medium.com

Web Design Ideas to Kickstart Your Creativity

Fresh, material design, minimalist ... what's your style? Web design trends come and go with the passing of time, so it's important to keep evolving your style. Because of this evolving nature it can be challenging to keep up with the latest and greatest web design trends.

medium.com

Kicktrip :  My Journey on Creating a Social App for Travelers

Last November I decided to travel to Equador to take surf lessons, explore the country and get inspired. As a creative person working in a Swiss Bank, I like to travel alone from time to time and open my mind for new experiences and people.

tympanus.net

Inspiration for Navigation Indicators

Some navigation style ideas for slideshows, pages and other components that require a navigation. Shown on the example of a vertical slideshow. View demo Download source Today we'd like to share some style inspiration with you. The topic of this inspirational collection is navigation indicators.

rizwanjavaid.com

Abstractions Conference: A Uniquely Inclusive Experience

I recently attended a software development conference called Abstractions in Pittsburgh, PA. Organized by Code & Supply, Pittsburgh's language-agnostic programming meetup group. This was a conference like no other. From the moment I received the email announcing the selection of my talk, I have been nothing but amazed at with the organization of the event.

gosquared.com

How bad features are born

Building new features in your product can seem simple at first. But building features that really work for your customers is an incredibly difficult process, and one that requires stepping back from the superficial. Good features come from focusing on the customer and their problem before ever touching a line of code or a pixel of the user interface.

design.blog

Julie Zhuo on the Lessons of Good Design

My first design job was an internship on Microsoft OneNote. Our intrepid leader was the product founder Chris Pratley, who terrified me the way karaokeing Adele onstage while completely sober is terrifying. My goal that summer was for him to not think I was an idiot, and my strategy to achieve that was to try...

blog.iconfinder.com

Sketch Review 2016

As we mentioned in the intro of this series, Iconfinder is narrowly focused on reviewing the three products - Adobe Illustrator, Affinity Designer, and Sketch - for icon designers so Sketch is a bit of an outlier, at least at initial glance.