The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2016/08/16

mcmansionhell.tumblr.com

McMansions 101: What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture?

Sometimes people ask, why is xyz house bad? Asking this question does not imply that the asker has bad taste or no taste whatsoever - it means that they are simply not educated in basic architectural concepts.

uxdesign.cc

Human Centered Design & The 6 Fundamental Principles of Interaction Between Products and Users

Design is all around us. To some, design is present in the beauty of things, to others, in its ability to function flawlessly or solve a problem. But the fact is that definitions and opinions aside, everything that was made by man, was also designed, and so design is ubiquitous.

a-k-apart.com

Another 10k Apart: Create a Website in 10 KB, Win Prizes!

With so much of an emphasis on front-end frameworks and JavaScript runtimes, it's time to get back to basics-back to optimizing every little byte like your life depends on it and ensuring your site can work, no matter what. The Challenge? Build a compelling web experience that can be delivered in 10KB and works without JavaScript.

medium.com

Sketch Symbol Best Practices

Give the layers generic placeholder text - not just the text you were using in the specific use case you had when you created this Symbol. Our placeholder text for buttons is "ACTION INTENT" as a passive reminder of how you should phrase your microcopy. Give the layers themselves appropriate and consistent names.

launchbit.com

Free Webinar: How to Monitor your Single Page App with New RelicSponsored

Speaker: James Nguyen, Product Manager at New Relic Are you delivering a fluid customer experience with your Single Page App (SPA)? Are you sure? Whether you're working with an Angular, React, Ember, or Backbone, or Custom framework, as much as 90% of your user experience happens outside of traditional page loads.