The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2017/04/25

blog.intercom.com

A design lesson 3.5 billion years in the making

One of the great things about designing digital products is that our products are never finished. We can continuously change them over time, whether that's based on user feedback, changes in the market or new technological capabilities. Change is not just unavoidable. It's also necessary.

blog.forrestthewoods.com

Visualizing Commute Times

I'm going to assume most people reading this post don't care how this was made. For the few of you that do care I'm happy to share details. Again, all source code is available on GitHub. It's a single 1300 line file shared under a permissive license.

css-tricks.com

The Many Tools for Shape Morphing

To no one's surprise, I'm sure, there are lots of different ways to do the same thing on the web. Shape morphing, being a thing on the web, is no different. There are some native technologies, some libraries that leverage those, and some libraries that do things all on their own.

lists.design

Lists: a gallery of real data ready to be placed in your design

A gallery of real data ready to be placed in your design. Kind of like an App Store for fake content. Want to design with real data ? There's a list for that.

jackwmorgan.com

Google Brand Black Belt

Google makes over USD $20 billion per quarter from selling ad space with programs like AdWords and YouTube - the majority of which comes from Google's ad sales teams, who sell millions of dollars worth of ad space to agencies and brands every day.