Pixels of the Week – February 27, 2015

Pixels of the Week – February 27, 2015

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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 ressources, inspiration on twitter and other social networks.

This week’s selection: Typography (bullshit ligature font and a tool to create you own fonts), design principles, some nice SVG demos, how to sound smart at a TEDx with nothing to say, animations, CSS tutorials to enhance UX of multi-level menus , interaction and accessibility tools.

Web Design weekly summary:

TL;DNR the one you should not miss

#Bullshit #Font

Sans Bullshit Sans, the font that uses ligatures to replaces your bullshit buzzwords

Sans Bullshit Sans

Interesting article

#Design

Design Principles: Learn about design principles and see how they can be applied from architecture to product design

Design Principles

#Performance #UX

UX Tactics To Make Slow Things Seem Faster

#Animations

Invisible animation on those little animations on Mailchimp that improve the whole experience “Good animation is invisible. You shouldn’t notice that you’re looking at animation.”

Invisible animation

#Presentation

Presentation Tips That Will Win You Clients

Inspiration and Great ideas

# Photos

.@Interstellar won #Oscars2015 for visual effects. Here’s a visual of Earth. No effects.

NASA

#Design #Video

I really like the message here: Designing for Humans (all of them)

#Video #TEDx

How to sound smart in your TEDx Talk (without anytings to say)

How to sound smart in your TEDx Talk

#Illustration

Gotham Masquerade

Gotham Masquerade

Designer Great news

#Medium

Medium brillant idea: TextShots

TextShots

Tutorials

#CSS

Extending the Color Cascade with the CSS currentColor Variable by SaraSoueidan

#CSS #UX

On making multi level menus more usable with more forgiving mouse movement paths

Dropdown Menus with More Forgiving Mouse Movement Paths

Useful ressources

#Font

Morning procrastination: customize your own little font using Metaflop Font Modulator

Metaflop Font Modulator

#CSS

CSS tricks’ museum for image replacement techniques

Tools and plugins that will make your life easy

#A11Y

Contrast, an online tool to play with contrast and understand accessible color scheme

Contrast

#Design Tool

Atomic, an interface design software with built-in prototyping and collaboration tools that looks really cool

Atomic

#Icons

Subway Icon Set, 360 icons under CC-BY-0.4

Fun, games and impressive demos

#SVG

Pretty sure you won’t see a better CodePen today: SVG masking experiment

SVG masking experiment

#CSS #SVG

CSS and SVG Pacman demo

CSS and SVG Pacman demo

#Video

“FYI I’M A GRAPHIC DESIGNER”