The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2017/04/01

uxdesign.cc

VSCO, More Than Just Filters!

It all started when I noticed my friend jumping between different apps making edits and applying filters, until finally switching to Instagram to post the final photo of our dinner. It seemed he really like the filters from an app called VSCO, but could not be bothered to use the app's other features that would've saved him from having to switch to different apps.

medium.freecodecamp.com

No budget? No excuse. UX on the cheap Part 2: let's get building.

This is a continuation of my series on ' UX on a Budget'. If you haven't read part one, I'd strongly recommend giving it a read before getting into this article. You can find it here. In part one, I discussed the first stage of IDEO's circular design methodology, ' Understand'.

community.algolia.com

Algolia CSS Search

Algolia CSS API Client | The power of Algolia distilled into a single .css file

carbondesignsystem.com

Carbon Design System

Carbon is the design system for IBM Cloud products. The Carbon Design System is a series of individual styles and components, that when combined make beautiful, intuitive designs. These designs are systemic and logical, as they all follow the same universal principles.

blog.twitter.com

Rethinking our default profile photo

For the past seven years, everyone who has created an account on Twitter starts out with their default profile photo as an egg. This was a playful way to reference how eggs hatch into birds that send all the Tweets you see on Twitter!