Pixels of the Week – March 23, 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: information architecture empty states, design roles spectrum, logical fallacies, easing gradients, UI toggles inspiration, variable fonts, CSS variables for theming, color management, accessibility ressources, a literal world map, collaboration tools and why asking for names in forms is hard

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

TL;DNR the one you should not miss

As a non native speaker writing in English, one of the best tools that helped me write articles so far is hemingwayapp.com

I could not thank enough myriamjessier for the discovery. So I asked her if she wanted to guest blog in the links to present you a SEO meet UX selection. So, welcome Myriam’s new section this week.

Workshop Slides

The slides on card sorting for our first UX in Lux meetup with Laurence Vagner are online 🙂

Interesting article

#UX #UI

The spectrum of design roles in 2018 – I fall under the “UX team of one” spectrum
Logical Fallacies In Design Critiques, how to spot and counter them. I’m pretty ever designer was in the “Amazon is a successful website. Amazon has orange buttons. So orange buttons are the best.” situation 🙂
The Principle of Commitment and Behavioral Consistency
A Guide to Information Architecture, nice article to help you understand and build the IA of your site
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names, asking for names in forms is hard
ReCAPTCHA is UX’s worst nightmare, so fucking true I’m tired of being Google’s little Ai image recognition help. I like the drawing idea but it might get complicated for non mouse users. The emotion recognition would also be a nightmare for me though :/

#Front-End

I want Easing Gradients to become a real CSS spec. Spread the word people
4 essential image optimisation tips
Variable Fonts, an online tool to find and test variable fonts

#Design

Your Work is Starstuff. Designs might not get implemented right away, but they’ll often be used as base for improving. We build upon the work of other designers who build upon ours.
Colour management, part 3 by @bjango, on managing the color profiles in different design tools
Theming With Variables: Globals and Locals. Repeat after me: CSS variables are awesome

#SEO

Why rich results can help significantly improve your search ranking and boost traffic to your site

#Accessibility

Useful accessibility resources

#SEO meet UX articles curated by Myriam Jessier

Calling Bullshit: Data Reasoning in a Digital World, a real course at University of Washington
UX writing: how to do it like Google
Must know SEO concepts for 2018
How to reclaim your online digital privacy
All about visual cues

Inspiration, fun demos and Great ideas

#Toggles

UI Toggles to turn you on hahaha

#Maps

For my linguistic and maps lovers, here is a literal world map

Tutorials

#Sketch

Sketch Type Symbols, an interesting hack to swap texts in Sketch. I wish we had style overrides. Like: create the button symbol size and radius, override it’s color with a fill style and text with a text style. This would make it much easier 🙁

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

#Empty States

emptystat.es, a nice website is you are looking for empty state design examples

#Collaboration

tscheck.in, an online tool to find a question to begin (check-in) and end (check out) your collaborative sessions

Pixels of the Week – March 23, 2018