The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2016/06/29

eager.io

The Languages Which Almost Were CSS

In fact, it has been a constant source of delight for me over the past year to get to continually tell hordes (literally) of people who want to - strap yourselves in, here it comes - control what their documents look like in ways that would be trivial in TeX, Microsoft Word, and every other common text processing environment: "Sorry, you're screwed."

medium.com

Apple listens: Updates their new official app icon template with 2 crucial changes

A couple of days ago I wrote down some thoughts about the newly released app icon resources from Apple: Long story short: the new resource were lacking in several ways, and while people were quick to spell doom over 3rd party resources like the ones I make available at appicontemplate.com, it looks like there's still plenty of room for improvement.

nngroup.com

Hamburger Menus and Hidden Navigation Hurt UX Metrics

Summary: Discoverability is cut almost in half by hiding a website's main navigation. Also, task time is longer and perceived task difficulty increases. Our quantitative usability testing of hidden menus (such as hamburger icons) and visible menus (such as links across the top of pages) reveals that: Hidden navigation is less discoverable than visible or partially visible navigation.

developers.facebook.com

New Like Button

Today, we're introducing several new ways for developers to help people improve their sharing and saving experience. This includes two new Chrome extensions, as well as updating our full suite of Social Plugin buttons to make it even easier to share, save and engage with content on Facebook.

subtraction.com

The 2016 Subtraction.com Design Tools Survey

I'm very excited to announce the opening of this year's Design Tools Survey-you can take it right now, here. The market for software made for product designers, web designers, app designers, interaction designers and more has never been more vibrant and interesting.