The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2016/10/28

medium.com

Real NYC: The most work anyone's ever put into an iMessage sticker pack

With the recent release of iOS 10, Apple added stickers to iMessage. Sticker packs are dead simple to make, but that means there are tons and tons of them out there. We decided to throw around some ideas and try to find something that would really feel special, and then spent about three weeks putting together everything for Real NYC.

medium.com

Designing Bonfire

Two weeks ago we launched Bonfire, a social commerce platform that allows anyone to design and sell t-shirts. The feedback was overwhelming - someone submitted us to ProductHunt, and we ended up being featured on their homepage, along with making the weekly newsletter.

developer.apple.com

Touch Bar Human Interface Guidelines

Introduces the Mac user experience and explains how to design a great macOS app.

medium.com

Digging into Abandoned Cart Emails

A study by The Baymard Institute suggests an average cart abandonment rate of nearly 69% for online retailers. That's a significant number of near misses! And no wonder so many companies try to follow up with customers to seal the deal: Our friend Carl Sednaoui at MailCharts.com, a magical resource that tracks and analyzes email campaign data told us that "cart abandonment campaigns tend to be one of the highest ROI triggered campaigns."

origami.design

Origami Studio - Design Prototyping

A new tool for designing modern interfaces, built and used by designers at Facebook