The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2017/01/20

trackchanges.postlight.com

Mission to Mercury: Designing a clean reading experience for web articles

It's not every day you get to redesign a product used by hundreds of thousands of people, virtually overnight. But that's what happened when we launched Mercury Reader, a Google Chrome plugin for formatting articles into a clean reader view.

tympanus.net

Little Fragments: Creating a Simple Image Poster Effect

A tutorial on how to create a simple image effect with little image fragments inspired by some poster art and powered by clip-path. View demo Download source Today we'd like to show you how to achieve a very simple, yet interesting effect with an image.

blog.prototypr.io

Forget about the Golden Ratio and let's talk about Order vs Complexity

If you have some visual arts background, you might have seen quite a lot of buzz about the Golden Ratio. This famous mathematical relationship has been observed in Nature for a long time and some of our societies got quite thrilled about using it in their projects.

medium.com

Making Stylesheets in Sketch

If I had a nickel for every time I've had to update colors across an entire design, I'd probably have like...well...maybe only one or two, because I'm great with color. Here's a photo someone captured of me designing an interface for Apple: But for real, it happens all the time, and the reason is always different: * "Ah sorry, we changed the branding."

scotthurff.com

Using science to make truly tappable user interfaces

You know that feeling even if you can't name it - the mix of frustration and annoyance when you're using a touch interface that you can't quite get to work correctly. When you feel like you have to touch delicately just to trigger that command that's right there in plain sight.