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Creative / Development Inspiration 44

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More thought pieces than inspiration, which is sometimes needed in this industry. Take a moment to sit back, read a few and consider the direction you want to take the web. This weeks design and development inspiration I listed an article on designing for accessibility, how AMP can go to hell (it really can), how to run a design audit, and how to stay scrappy.

 

Website Inspiration

Fleur Moreau – Design Portfolio

Not my usual type of website, but I really enjoyed this. Subtle transitions and a great display of content and image.

http://fleurmoreau.fr/

 

Designer Resources, Examples and Inspiration

Fake Clients

Practice logo design using randomly generated client briefs!

https://fakeclients.com/

 

Designing UI with Color Blind Users in Mind

Colour plays an integral role in UI design. When done right, it improves user experience, influences purchasing decisions, and reflects the brands voice. So, how do you design effective, accessible, and aesthetically pleasing interfaces for coluor blind users?

https://www.secretstache.com/blog/designing-for-color-blind-users/

 

Development Snippets, Samples, and Articles

Progressive Tooling

A list of community-built, third-party tools that can be used to improve page performance. Well worth a bookmark!

https://progressivetooling.com/

 

How to Use GIT Efficiently

Apart from knowing git add, git commit , and git push , there are a bunch of other important techniques in Git. Knowing these will help a lot in the long run.

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-to-use-git-efficiently-54320a236369

 

AMP Can Go To Hell

An article after a piece of my heart. Google are trying to monopolise the “World Wide Web”. Can we please stop them?

https://www.polemicdigital.com/google-amp-go-to-hell/

 

A bit of everything

What is a Design Audit and Why You Should Conduct One?

Inconsistencies won’t make anyone trust you or like you. A design audit is essentially a brand checkup. They help ensure everything is consistent and on point. This article discusses what exactly they are, how to conduct them and what results to expect from them.

https://designmodo.com/design-audit

 

How to Stay Scrappy

How to keep your team “scrappy”. How to keep motivated, and fighting for the win. Well worth the read to see how Paper pushes their company forwards.

https://medium.com/dropbox-design/how-to-stay-scrappy-9c42af21c996

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Creative / Development Inspiration 41

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A brilliant landing page example, common web design mistakes, pure CSS wizardry, and some great thought-provoking articles. This weeks design development rundown is a little more aimed at helping you consider your design and dev. For example, how did Facebook end up bad? Is Google Amp really the way forwards (no is the answer to that), as well as articles explaining the best way to design elements on your website.

 

Website Inspiration

Duda – Landing Page

I found this through clicking an advert on Facebook. Selling themselves as a WordPress replacement I was intrigued. I left having found a brilliant landing page. Simple, and effective, with nice use of CSS animation.

https://wp.duda.co

 

Designer Resources, Examples and Inspiration

Common web page design mistakes

16 well explained examples of the most common mistakes made in web design, with a focus on how to avoid these.

http://blog-en.tilda.cc/articles-website-design-mistakes

 

Waveguide – Design Knowledge Base

A curated, searchable base of design knowledge, UX/UI patterns and examples for research and inspiration. The goal is to help create a repository of referable concepts to help designers and developers build amazing, high quality products.

https://www.waveguide.io

 

Designing Charts – Principles every designer should know

Seemingly simple rules can be forgotten when overwhelmed with the larger project. This article steps though the correct principles for designing charts, and why.

https://uxdesign.cc/designing-charts-principles-every-designer-should-know-part-2-ce1e06af56fc

 

Development Snippets, Samples, and Articles

Pure CSS Wizardry

A brilliant codepen by Julia Muzafarova. A wizard with potions making animals come alive. All with CSS. Love it!

https://codepen.io/miocene/full/mjLPVp/

 

Guess.JS

A selection of libraries and tools for enabling a machine-learning driven user-experience across the web. It uses Google Analytics to work determine which page the user is likely to visit next, and pre-fetches all resources required.

https://github.com/guess-js/guess

 

Carbon

Create beautiful images of your source code, right in the browser. Share directly from the platform.

https://carbon.now.sh

 

Creating the “Perfect” CSS system

A high level guide for designers and developers who write CSS, but want to be more strategic about building moderate to large scale CSS systems

https://medium.com/gusto-design/creating-the-perfect-css-system-fa38f5bcdd9e

 

Lazyestload.js

Only load images when they are in the view port, if you scroll past they wont be loaded. Only 350 bytes of JavaScript. I introduced Carl a couple of weeks ago, but that is a more general asset manager.

https://github.com/Paul-Browne/lazyestload.js

 

Fast Average Colour

A client side library to quickly get the images average colour. Not sure how much of a good idea this is to use on a front end, but it could be used on the admin side to save the colour in an input.

https://github.com/fast-average-color/fast-average-color

 

 

A bit of everything

Google AMP – A 70% drop in our conversion rate

Let’s talk about Google AMP. AMP stands for Accelerated-Mobile-Pages. It’s a technology Google originally introduced to get web developers to speed up their web pages for mobile devices and mobile networks. But in many ways it seems like great technology for any device or network. Who doesn’t want fast websites?

https://medium.com/the-set-list/google-amp-a-70-drop-in-our-conversion-rate-35fe3cb69c59

 

Everything bad about Facebook is bad for the same reason

In June 2016, Antonio Perkins unintentionally broadcast his own death to the world. It was a sunny day in Chicago, and he was sharing it on Facebook Live, a platform for distributing video in real-time, released just a few months earlier.

https://qz.com/1342757/everything-bad-about-facebook-is-bad-for-the-same-reason/

 

How to create a customer journey map

Understanding users’ behaviour and feelings is crucial when building a user-centred product. In this guide you’ll learn how to create a Customer Journey Map and how to apply it to any project.

https://aerolab.co/blog/customer-journey-map