The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2017/02/01

m.signalvnoise.com

Foggy thinking in design (and how to cut through it)

"I felt it was getting a little too heavy for the casual nature of the feature." "The screen was feeling confusing so we lightened up the layout a bit." "We really need this flow to be easy and clear." These sentences are BS. We all do it.

chatbotsmagazine.com

What We Learned Designing a Chatbot for Banking

For the past year we were working on a concept of conversational interface for an online banking system that we called K2 Bank. Check out the video below with a prototype of it: Here I want to talk about some things that we have learned along the way while designing it, and I hope it can inspire you and help you working with chatbots.

webfieldmanual.com

Web Field Manual

A curated resource for web creators.

medium.com

Adaptive Text Elements In Sketch

It all began with a simple question... Not a while ago I encountered a small but tedious problem that bugged me ever since. I designed a dashboard interface for one of my clients, and in it was a pretty common ui component; It showed information regarding a specific user with elements such as: avatar image, day of publication and a timestamp.

medium.com

Unsplash 5.0

We started Unsplash in a dusty office above a grocery store. Back then, it was just Mikael and a Tumblr blog with 10 photos. Today, Unsplash is one of the most potent creative cauldrons on the internet: Thousands of photographers, millions of eyeballs, and billions of delicious photo views™ breaking the internet on a daily basis.

quora.com

What are some of the major design trends we will see emerge in 2017?

Answer (1 of 3): I'll focus on the macro design trends that I think we'll see in 2017. Some are continuations of existing narratives while others are relatively nascent. Proliferation of New Design Tools - Designer Fund has invested or partnered with a number of new design tools coming onto the ...

instagram.com

Logoji on Instagram: Logos and emojis. What more could you want?

Logos and emojis. What more could you want?