Pixels of the Week – October 28, 2018 by Stéphanie Walter

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Every week I post a lot of my daily readings about Web, UI and UX Design, mobile design, webdesign tools and useful resources, inspiration on twitter and other social networks.

This week’s selection: styleguide documentation, microinteractions in User Experience, humor and UX, confession of a flawed designer, improving chatbots, skeleton screens study, usability and innovation, UX writing, design search experience, 30 second CSS snippets, learning Adobe XD in 5 minutes, and more.

You can follow me on twitter to get a dose of links every days.

I gave a talk

The last 2 weeks I talked at DevFest Nantes and Blend Web Mix Lyon about template / UI frameworks and how to buid a product or service with them while still doing some user research and having a user centric process. The slides are in French and available here.

TL;DNR the one you should not miss

#Styleguide

How much documentation to include in a style guide? by Brad Frost

Interesting article

#UX and #UI Design

Microinteractions in User Experience – Microinteractions convey system status, support error prevention, and communicate brand. They are initiated by a trigger, are single-purpose, and can make the experience engaging.
User Experience: How to Improve Your Website UX with Humor and Cuteness
Everything you need to know about skeleton screens, an interesting study and great read on perceived performance
Balancing Usability with Innovative Design, usability doesn’t kill innovation
The Hidden Power of Reward Systems In Design – very nice article that reminds us the good and the bad things about rewarding mechanism, as designers we should be aware of this and use with caution
No Good, Very Bad UX Writing Mistakes – bad for UX and on a personal note I really hate the shaming, this is a sneaky technique, most of time when they try to shame me I will be “ok bye this is Internet plenty of other sites”
Really interesting read: Designing contemporary search experiences — less typing, more context

#Design

Confessions of a Flawed Designer, really nice article full of fun illustrations

#ChatBot

Honey, I built a chatbot, but no one will click on my buttons – nice read but it again makes me question the existence of chatbots. The Facebook one seems super limited and I see so many poor designed ones, clumsy unnatural conversations :/

Inspiration, fun demos and Great ideas

#Code Demo

Shredded, a fun demo on codepen

#Cartoons

Transgender people are everywhere—and will not be erased. Six cartoonists on gender and transition

Webdesign news

#Browser news:

Chrome 70 has now Desktop Progressive Web Apps on Windows & Linux
Edge gets authentification API, notifications and PWAs enhancements as well

Tutorials

#Adobe XD

Do You Want to Learn Adobe XD but Don’t Have Time? How About Learning It in Under 5 Minutes?

Useful tools and plugins that will make your life easy

#CSS

30 seconds CSS, A curated collection of useful CSS snippets you can understand in 30 seconds or less.

Pixels of the Week – October 28, 2018