The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2017/02/07

medium.com

Git repository for designers as you've never seen: Abstract (+ Sketch)

Working with version control software (aka GIT in many cases) is nowadays a must in software development. It is reassuring as a software developer or a web developer to know that all your code and the evolution of a piece of code will be fully traceable.

smashingmagazine.com

Getting Started With VR Interface Design

The virtual realm is uncharted territory for many designers. In the last few years, we've witnessed an explosion in virtual reality (VR) hardware and applications. VR experiences range from the mundane to the wondrous, their complexity and utility varying greatly. Taking your first steps into VR as a UX or UI designer can be daunting.

hackernoon.com

Appointment Web Forms

Many challenges I deal with in the work place revolve around bringing users to register, purchase items, sign up, or some other web form that the client wants to improve. There is one particular web form that hasn't been touched since it's creation - every website does it the same (with some variation) without any evolution in the user experience, booking appointments.

trackchanges.postlight.com

Against Storytelling

My co-founder Rich Ziade and I are out in San Francisco for a conference. The hotel we're in is very...designed. I think the designers wanted the rooms to look like a summer cottage designed by Muji but the overall effect is more like a timeshare designed by Sharper Image.

medium.com

Why Our Super Bowl Ad Failed

This weekend, Cards Against Humanity purchased an ad during the Super Bowl, the most-watched American television broadcast of the year, reaching 114.4 million viewers. Cards Against Humanity is known as an innovator in the games space, and we saw an opportunity to apply our unique brand of "outside the box" thinking to the old-fashioned world of Super Bowl commercials.