Pixels of the Week: Web Design links not to miss – December 19, 2014

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: articles and books about User Experience, a nice selection of articles and tutorials on SVG, Typecast is becoming free, a tool for flow-charts and mind-mapping and some nice icon packs

TL;DNR the one you should not miss

#Typography

Typecast is free. For everyone.

Interesting article

#Ecommerce

E-Commerce Checkouts Need to Mark Both Required and Optional Fields Explicitly (Only 9% Do So)

#Design

7 Things I Wish Everyone Knew About Interaction Design

#UX

10 must-read UX design books so that you have something to read for the holidays

#UX

Is the ‘User’ Always Right?  (…) “Design must remain user-centered, but not user-led”

Inspiration and Great ideas

#Standing Desk

Standingdeskdanceparty.com there’s a site for people like me, dancing in front of the desk!

Tutorials

#SVG

Some inspiration for elastic components with SVG shape animations

#SVG #Animation

#135: Three Ways to Animate SVG, a video tutorial + some code explained

Useful ressources

#SVG

Open Iconic, an open source SVG icon library with SVG sprites and font-icon embed

#Patterns

Patterns, patterns, patterns: thepatternlibrary.com

#Static

Could be useful: The ultimate list of services for static websites

#Font

Polya, a free font inspired by low-poly

#Freebies

Responsive And Mobile Icon Set with some nice colors, yeahy

Tools and plugins that will make your life easy

#Diagram

Gliffy, a free online tool to create diagrams, flowcharts, etc.

Fun, games and impressive demos

#WebGL

Puppetic Morning procrastination in WEBGL