The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2017/02/14

blog.uncommon.is

Lessons learned while designing a fun personal finance tool

How we helped Fisdom bring fun to investment. Financial tools are boring, and provide an experience that is heavily corporate. Most of them are good at addressing major use cases for their customers and their offerings are quite comprehensive. However, what most fin-tech companies are not great at - is the experience one gets while investing.

webgradients.com

WebGradients: a free collection of 180 linear gradients

Come to WebGradients.com for 180 beautiful linear gradients in CSS3, Photoshop and Sketch. This collection is curated by top designers and totally free.

medium.com

The Beginning of your Design Career

This was first published on my mailing list The Looking Glass . Every week, I answer a reader's question. Over these weeks, many of you have asked about what it takes to get started as a designer.

thinkprogress.org

The resistance will be illustrated

Instagram artist Mari Andrews talks empathy, politics, and caring about pop culture and current events at the same time. Stop me if you've heard this one: You attempt to talk about something pleasurable - Rihanna, Broad City, the latest tweet from We Rate Dogs - only to find yourself on the receiving end of a holier-than-thou rant.

medium.muz.li

A design lesson from a sugar stick

Look at the sugar sticks above. Look again. Ok now that's too much looking; cause anyway, these sugar sticks have nothing special (well ok it's written fair trade on them, but design wise, nothing special). You've seen these sugar sticks again and again in your local coffee shop, so you're wondering why I insist so much on you having a good look at these.

hired.com

Hired: We Bring Design Job Offers To YouSponsored

With Hired your job search has never been easier! Simply create a profile & vetted companies compete for you, reaching out with salary & equity upfront.