Pixels of the Week – April 10, 2015

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

This week’s selection: many ressources with some SVG, CSS unwanted spaces, accessibility, perceived speed and a podcast dedicated to web performance, some UX, a Sketch tool for responsive web design and a site to help you generate fake users for your mockups. Don’t forget to take a loot at this week’s inpiration how to adapt a logo for responsive.

TL;DNR the one you should not miss

#Responsive Logos

Responsive Logos, Part 1: Tips for Adapting Logos for Small Screens:  some nice ideas for how to change the logo for smaller screen and keep it still recognizable

Interesting article

#UX

Myth #34: Simplicity = minimalism

#Creative Commons

How an agency would rather commit plagiarism than credit me for my Illustration under CC-BY

Tutorials

#SVG

The SVG Canvas, Coordinate System, And Viewport

#CSS

Mind The Gap: Six Causes of Unwanted Spaces In Page Layouts

Useful ressources

#a11y

Accessibility Wins, a tumblr that shows accessible user interfaces

#Performance #UX

Some design insights about perceived speed

#PodCast #Performance

I like the idea: Pathtoperf.com, a podcast for everyone dedicated to making websites faster.

#User

If you need fake random users with many details

#Ebook #User Testing

New eBook: The Marketer’s Guide to User Testing

Tools and plugins that will make your life easy

#Sketch

Pointgrid A Sketch plugin to help your create breakpoints for Responsive Webdesign How do you define them without a browser?

Fun, games, experiments and demos

#Game

Procrastination time !!! CoogyLoop – A ridiculously addictive time wasting game