The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2016/07/27

avocode.com

Guacamole UI kit

Are you a modern designer with taste? Get 3-in-1 free UI kits for Photoshop, Sketch and Adobe Xd and get your hands at 150+ icons, 70+ elements & 500+ vector shapes.

stackoverflow.com

Stack Overflow Salary Calculator

See how much you'd earn if you worked at Stack Overflow.

medium.com

Drawing the Calendar

My drawn calendar system evolved as I used it. The first iteration focused on work with only the thinnest mapping of my life rhythm. But I liked using the calendar so much that I added additional boxes within each day-box, and after 10 months of drawing calendars, I've landed on the following system.

adriengervaix.com

Adrien Gervaix: UX UI Designer

Collect.io is an open source project. It let you save everything that inspire you and store anywhere you want. Organise, in board, all your visuals resources, links, notes or color. Create projects and collaborate with your team.

interiordesign.net

10 questions with Chris Downey, blind architect

In 2008, San Francisco-based architect Chris Downey underwent surgery to remove a benign brain tumor that was pressing against his optic nerve. The surgery was successful, but three days later his sight was gone. Given the visual nature of his profession, that could have been a career-ending event.

uxdesign.cc

User research: Airbnb for the Chinese market

I talked about how design helps Airbnb's cross-culture business in my last article. As a Chinese person living in the US, I thought it would be interesting to go further and study the Airbnb users in the Chinese market.

medium.com

How to Think About Your Career

If you had asked 22-year-old me what my "career aspirations" were, I would have looked at you blankly and then casually changed the subject to what programs you'd recommend to model cute 3D bunnies for a video game, or whether the writers of would be so devious as to ship Sydney Bristow and Sark.

jgthms.com

Web Design in 4 minutes

Written content, like the paragraph you're currently reading. makes up for more than 90% of the Web. Styling this textual content will go a long way.