Pixels of the Week – March13, 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: somes really nice tips to create accessible color pallets, articles around the mobile world (design, responsive, typography), client designer relationship, a cool WebGL experiment and animation inspiration, SVG ressponsives and UX design.

TL;DNR the one you should not miss

#Color #a11y

Some nice little color tricks here: Color Contrast for Better Readability    and tips to add Colors To Your Palette With Color Mixing

Interesting article

#Fuck you pay me

To get paid you can punch clients (on the site, not irl) or read the ebook

#Industry

Coding Like a Girl, on how women are percieved at conference and in the industry when they dress in a feminin way.

#Responsive #Typographie

Responsive Typography, Clarissa Peterson’s slides at confoo on how to handle responsive typography

#Podcast

If you like to listen to people: Improve Your Mobile UX with These Six Podcasts (with transcript)

#Mobile

Tools for Mobile UX Design: Task Flows

#Links

Beyond Blue Links: Making Clickable Elements Recognizable

#Design

Designing mobile apps for cross-platform continuity, Stumbleupon redesign for iOs and Android

#Design

Mike Monteiro’s Keynote at Interaction Design Association

Inspiration and Great ideas

#Adverstisement

Powerful domestic violence awareness campaign by the Salvation Army using #TheDress buzz

#Animations

Screencast: UI Animation Reviews – Web Navigation, another great screencast with some really nice inspirationr

#WebGL

V, you can do really nice things with  WebGL

Designer Great news

#Dev Tool

More designer friendly dev tools in Chrome? Yes, yes and YES please

Tutorials

#SVG

Interacting with  SVG, nice step by step

#SVG

SVG Sprites and Icon Systems Are Super a quick article explaining the basic usage of the use element

#Interaction Design

The 5 laws of Interface Design, a free online class (recording will be available soon)

#CSS #SVG

I like they way Lucas Bebber decomposes and explains the gooey effect in SVG

Useful ressources

#UX

Design Research Techniques gathered in an online repository

#Photos

Online free Stock Photo search tool with a Browse by Color function. Could be useful 🙂

Fun, games and impressive demos

#CSS

Could watch this all day long: CSS dancing tree

#CSS

A flipside confirm button, pretty nice