The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2017/01/17

medium.com

Take the Time to Use Fewer Words

As Blaise Pascal wrote, "I made this [letter] very long only because I have not had the leisure to make it shorter." In hundreds of languages, over thousands of years, people have known that reducing text takes time. As a professional writer, here's how I use that time.

blog.marvelapp.com

A Designer’s Guide to Perceived Performance

uxplanet.org

Best Practices for Long Scrolling

The days of "above the fold" are over. Long scrolling and infinitely scrolling sites are becoming more and more common lately, and it's no mere trend or coincidence. The technique that allows user to scroll the chunks of content without any interruption or additional interaction ( information simply appear as the user scrolls down the page) has following benefits: It simplifies navigation.

textslashplain.com

The Line of Death

When building applications that display untrusted content, security designers have a major problem- if an attacker has full control of a block of pixels, he can make those pixels look like anything he wants, including the UI of the application itself. He can then induce the user to undertake an unsafe action, and a user...

bjango.com

Color Creator Templates

When we built Skala Color, the goal was to create a compact colour picker that covered the most common and most useful ways for choosing colours.