The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2016/09/15

github.com

GitHub Universe

Learn about the exciting features and announcements revealed at this year's annual GitHub Universe conference at historic Pier 70 in San Francisco.

medium.com

Is Readymag The Ultimate Portfolio Tool For Designers?

How to build a simple portfolio website with amazing, interactive project case studies directly in your browser. PS: No coding skills required. After a huge success with my last article for designers, called " How To Build a Better Case Study " (viewed more than 19,000 times, wow 😱), I decided to focus next on an important topic in a designer's life - building a portfolio website.

medium.com

Destroy Fast and Move Faster with Sketch

A new approach to working in Sketch that won't make you want to throw your laptop out of the window Enterprise UX often deals with solving hard problems. At Juniper, we solve a lot of complex problems around networking everyday and a lot of them involve challenges around displaying large amounts of data.

blog.uxtools.co

UX Tools: Hands on with the Figma Beta

Thanks to True North Podcast for being a sponsor of the monthly UX Tools newsletter. Like I've said before, Figma is gunning to be the Google Docs of design. Because it's still in Beta, some of their highly touted features (like live-collaboration) have yet to reach customers.

blog.typekit.com

Variable fonts, a new kind of font for flexible design

Just minutes ago, at the ATypI conference in Warsaw, the world was introduced to a new kind of font: a variable font. Jointly developed by Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Adobe, a variable font is, as John Hudson put it, "a single font file that behaves like multiple fonts".

googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com

Gmail Will Now Be Supporting CSS Media Queries

Posted by Pierce Vollucci, Associate Product Manager, Gmail and Steve Bazyl, Developer Programs Engineer, Google Apps When you send emails, your recipients might read them on a computer, tablet, or phone-or more likely, all three. However your message might look different on all these devices.