The five best design links, every weekday

Date: 2017/03/26

pixofield.com

Keyshape - Create animations for the web

This is beta software and may be substantially modified prior to first commercial shipment or withdrawn. Also, this software may include significant defects and anyone wishing to try it must understand that it is at their own risk. Software is provided "AS IS" without any warranty of any kind.

hackernoon.com

What Bots Can Do, that websites and apps can't

There's a backlash against bots. The hype of 2016 is gone with Facebook Messenger's move from chat to menus, Everlane rolling back to email and brands dropping bots as a marketing strategy. At Kip, we're moving forward fearlessly.

medium.com

There be dragons: dataviz in the industry - Visualizing, The Field

I started being serious about data visualization around 2005, when the field was still pretty niche and people like Martin Wattenberg, Ben Fry, Jonathan Harris, Marcos Weskamp, Eric Rodenbeck, Jer Thorp or Santiago Ortiz only started to explore what using data visualization as a medium, and getting creative with data - beyond just making "nicer charts" - could actually mean.

medium.com

On Loser Experience Design

Do you remember turntable.fm? The idea behind the product was simple and brilliant: you join a virtual "room" with friends and/or strangers, and take turns DJing for each other. Like a lot of products that experience meteoric early-stage growth, it took a real-world behavior - social listening - and created a digital proxy that could instantly connect people across geographic and cultural divides.

explore.reallygoodemails.com

How to not be gross in your emails

Lessons learned with Clair Byrd, former VP of Marketing and Content at InVision First off, we just want to say that we're over the moon about InVision's emails. InVision positions itself as a leader in the web design space, and these emails carry that banner confidently.