Pixels of the Week – April 3, 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: SVG will help you build better web interfaces, use SVG, some nice little April Fools, a report on responsive webdesign among people of the industry, some articles and ressources to help you build a more performant site, user experience that goes far beyond the website and a study of the smartphone landscape in the US.
TL;DNR the one you should not miss
#SVG
Building Better Interfaces with SVG by the amazing @SaraSoueidan
Interesting article
#Input
Numeric Inputs – A Comparison of Browser Defaults (spinner control makes it strange to use on a credit card e.g.)
#UX
User experience design is not what you think and goes beyond the interface of your website
#Burger Icon
Solve Your Hamburger Menu Problems with The Frankfurter
#Performance
Google developers has a nice page on rendering performances
#Slides #Mobile #Chrome
The plural of Chromium is Chromia, Ppk’s presentation on the Chromium mobile landscape
#Responsive
Responsive report among people of the industry: challenges, feelings, tools, etc.
Inspiration and Great ideas
#April Fools
According to me Fronteers.nl got the best april fool idea this year with a nice little moral on how the web works today. Well played 🙂
#Images #Botanic
If you are looking for some nice botanic, biodiversity illustrations, those are available under a CC attribution licence 🙂
Designer Great news
Tutorials
#Performance
A Modern Approach to Improving Website Speed (using Gulp)
Useful ressources
#Mobile #Data
Nice datas: US Smartphone use in 2015
#Mobile
Even if it dates back from 2009, the BBC Mobile Style Guide is really impressive. I’m curious of the 170px device though
#Nokia #AprilFool
Muhhha Nokia PSD mockups
Tools and plugins that will make your life easy
#RWD
Wondering if this is an April fool or if you really need to grant mobile users access to full site when using RWD
Fun, games, experiments and demos
#Code
#Parody
