The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2017/03/12

medium.freecodecamp.com

How a UI Revamp Could Help Make Twitter Successful, Again.

It's no secret that Twitter has been struggling to grow its user base. To fix this, they've laid out a long-term strategy to turn around its business by focusing on five areas: Its core service Live-streaming video The site's "creators and influencers" Safety Developers Two things that stuck out to me in that statement are 1) focus on its core service (tweeting) and 2) live-streaming video (Periscope).

medium.com

Sketch 43 is coming to town with a new game. An open file format!

The reason I'm excited about this is obviously because of Protoship. We have two tools that work intimately with Sketch: Teleport can convert websites into Sketch designs, and UIPad can convert Sketch designs into HTML, CSS, and React. We implemented Teleport by writing a massive Sketch plugin that creates layers and adds texts and inserts pictures, all using Sketch's internal API.

explore.reallygoodemails.com

Knowing Your Type

Lessons learned with Paul Airy, typography expert and author of A Type of Email . So, Paul Airy has this book we're all crazy about called A Type of Email . We've got our fair share of typography nuts on staff, and this book is about the clearest, most tangibly applied set of guidelines we've seen regarding HTML typography in emails.

medium.freecodecamp.com

How to Talk About Your Side Projects

I remember sitting down for my first interview at Facebook. Back then, the feeling I had deep in my stomach was mostly excitement but also a bubbling fear. Fear I was somehow being pranked. Fear they had the wrong guy. Fear I would walk in, embarrass myself, and return home defeated.

alistapart.com

Practical Design Discovery

by Published in Dan Brown Workflow & Tools , Usability One of the hardest design problems I ever worked on was for a company that helps IT groups manage risk. Their product focused on open-source components-inexpensive and widely supported by an enormous community, but often vulnerable to security flaws.