The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2016/08/23

medium.com

The Beginner's Guide to Writing Sketch Plugins Part 1

So you want to start writing Sketch plugins, but have no idea where to start? Well keep reading because this article is for you!

nngroup.com

WeChat: China's Integrated Internet User Experience

User research finds that tightly integrated services with simple and unified design make people use WeChat; mainly through traditional GUI interactions.

blog.typekit.com

Preview a new look for fonts on Typekit

We have some big news today: we've just shipped a brand new experience for browsing fonts on Typekit - the biggest change to our web interface in almost five years. We've rebuilt font browsing from the ground up to make it faster and easier to find the fonts you want to use across a wider...

css-tricks.com

Websites We Like: August 2016

Here are some of the websites we've stumbled upon lately that have made us all collectively Oooo and Aaaah with delight. Sometimes we literally type "oooooo" into the Slack channel where we save and discuss these. It's a fairly new thing we've started doing. Enjoy!

rocketship.fm

Creating a product vision with John Vars of TaskRabbit [Interview]

John Vars the Chief Product Officer at TaskRabbit, talks with us about he has was able to come into a relatively new company and create a structure to achieve higher results. He shares some tools that he uses to keep things organized and on track such as the OKR system, Goal Matrixs, SMRIs, and Sequencing.

github.com

coloreact :: tiny, customisable <ColorPicker /> for ReactJS

coloreact - A tiny Color Picker for React

envato.com

Material Design Tips & Techniques in Web Design

Once you understand the fundamental points of Material Design, you can replicate the same features for any digital interface. Google's Material Design language has changed the way UI designers craft interfaces. Material Design was first used on native Android apps but quickly spread into web design.

webdesign.tutsplus.com

Usability Testing Tools for Quick and Early Feedback

This is you: a user advocate trying to deliver the best possible User Experience with the work you do. You know the way to do this is by testing with the end-users of your product but you face some obstacles: maybe you only have a few days to deliver the project?

android.com

Android Nougat

With more ways to make Android your own, Android Nougat is our sweetest release yet.