Pixels of the Week – May 27, 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: a cute Fox illustration, GDPR ressources (obviously), finding time to learn, a cool tool to generate gradients and background images, cute little colourful experiments, a platform for bad ideas, mobile apps in China, User research, user flow, deceptive patterns, how and when ask for user permissions in a mobile app.

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

TL;DNR the one you should not miss

#Illustration

I created a cute little “Zero Fox Given” Illustration, it will be available as a sticker soon. Let me know if you are attending Pixel Pioneer (Bristol), Flupa UX Days (Paris), Voxxed (Luxembourg) or Ampersand (Brighton) in June and want one 🙂

Interesting article

#UX

The biggest WTF in design right now. Nice article on user flow, what, why and how to build them.
Research versus Research – “It should not surprise you that scientists tend to think of craft as something…less than their rarified work. It isn’t, and don’t let them instill in you any doubt about the value, importance, and difficulty of our craft.”
Deceptive Patterns and Aggressive Persuasion – 3 Reasons to Avoid!
“Good Questions, Bad Asks: The UX Of Questions In User Onboarding” a great read on How and when ask for user permissions in a mobile app.

#Mobile Apps

“7 Insane Features from Top Chinese Apps, and what they tell us about the human condition“, really interesting article, I’m between “kind of makes sense” and “OMG humanity what are you doing”

#Learning

Finding time to learn – quick straight to the point article, I like that 🙂

Inspiration, fun demos and Great ideas

#CSS

dailycssdesign.com, cute little colourful experiments

#Stupid Ideas

This made my day Flopstarter – A platform for bad ideas

Webdesign news

#GDPR

eBook: A Publisher’s Guide to GDPR Compliance – I wonder have many new deceptive partners people will come up with to keep your data. Sad times

Tutorials

#CSS

Decorating lines of text with box-decoration-break: clone; a really useful CSS property

Useful resources, tools and plugins that will make your life easy

#Gradients

coolbackgrounds.io a cool tool to generate gradients and background images for your social networks an other webdesign needs

Pixels of the Week – May 27, 2018