
Featured image e-book snapshot of Tazugane Gothic, [Monotype’s](https://www.monotype.com/typography-matters) first Japanese font

## Links of the week ending 19 January 2024

[Findings From the Monotype & Neurons Typography Report](https://www.printmag.com/type-tuesday/monotype-neurons-culture-typography-report/)

[Innovative Digital Product Design and Customer Experience Principles](https://medium.com/@yilmazermananit/innovative-digital-product-design-and-customer-experience-principles-d7629acd099d)

[What Is Customer Experience Design? Benefits & Best Practices](https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/what-is-customer-experience-design-benefits-best-practices/)

[Forbes - Why Customer Journey Mapping Might Put You On A Road To Nowhere](https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonpicoult/2023/10/27/why-customer-journey-mapping-might-put-you-on-a-road-to-nowhere/?sh=11151f96753f)

[H&M nailed its metaverse entry with one simple priority. UX](https://www.thedrum.com/news/2023/11/29/hm-nailed-its-metaverse-entry-with-one-simple-priority-ux)

[Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse](https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/17/google_search_results_spam/)

[Delicious Donut Components - An interactive guide to component composition with React Server Components](https://frontendatscale.com/blog/donut-components/)

[Proton Drive’s new photo backup feature for Android protects snapshots of your life](https://proton.me/blog/proton-drive-photo-backup-android)

[8 logo trends to watch in 2024](https://www.creativebloq.com/features/logo-design-trends-2024)

[2023 AI Year in Review + 2024 Predictions](https://aiwithallie.beehiiv.com/p/2023-ai-year-in-review-and-predictions)

✨ and,

[UK landline switch off](https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/1857406/UK-landline-switch-off-areas): Upgrade coming to 46 new locations - is your postcode on the list?

Links of The Week

401 - 19 January 2024 (ux, cx, typography and landline switch off)


Featured image from the [88x31 GIF Collection](https://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31/). A collection of 4210 classic 88x31 buttons from the 1990s and 2000s

## Links of the week ending 8 December 2023

[Seeing AI App Launches on Android – Including new and updated features and new languages](https://blogs.microsoft.com/accessibility/seeing-ai-app-launches-on-android-including-new-and-updated-features-and-new-languages/)

[Techradar - Best web accessibility service of 2023](https://www.techradar.com/best/web-accessibility-software)

[Equally AI launches Flowy, integrating no code generative AI for web accessibility](https://www.startuphub.ai/equally-ai-launches-flowy-integrating-no-code-generative-ai-for-web-accessibility/)

[Design Council - Seven tenets of human-centred design](https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/our-resources/seven-tenets-of-human-centred-design/)

[Roast - Identify design issues and fix them instantly with the ultimate design lint plugin for Figma](https://www.roastdesign.com/)

[React Burger Menu 🍔 An off-canvas sidebar component with a collection of effects and styles using CSS transitions and SVG path animations with examples](https://github.com/negomi/react-burger-menu)

[Best Practices using React Server Components with a Headless CMS](https://www.cosmicjs.com/blog/best-practices-using-react-server-components-with-a-headless-cms)

[How to set up self-healing urls in next.Js for better seo](https://mikebifulco.com/posts/self-healing-urls-nextjs-seo)

[Digital Meddle is the home of “Your Childhood Ruined”](https://www.teepublic.com/user/digitalmeddle)

✨ and,

[The 88x31 GIF Collection](https://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31/)


395 - 8 December 2023 (accessibility, illustration and no code)


Featured image of matchbox photography and illustration from a documentary jewel by Matt Lee on Archivoz magazine

## Links of the week ending 24 November 2023

[Meaning in a Matchbox (matchboxes from the subcontinent)](https://www.archivozmagazine.org/en/meaning-in-a-matchbox/)

[Building a drawer component (Typescript, CSS and Javascript)](https://github.com/emilkowalski/vaul#examples)

[TinaCMS is Now Fully Open-Source](https://tina.io/blog/Tinacms-is-now-fully-open-source/)

[Designing for accessibility beyond compliance “Something can be designed to be accessible, but it might not be user-friendly.”‍](https://uxdesign.cc/designing-for-accessibility-beyond-compliance-cf2edeb9a11e)

[When AI Hallucinates](https://nautil.us/when-ai-hallucinates-448711/)

[tldraw is a collaborative digital whiteboard available at tldraw.com](https://github.com/tldraw/tldraw)

[Complex components. Atomic design and Figma Tools](https://medium.com/@lauritisreyes/complex-components-atomic-design-and-figma-tools-ca6ae690431f)

✨ and,

[Coat Hingers – Foldable Coat Hangers](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/simonegiertz/coat-hingers-foldable-coat-hangers)

Links of the week ending 24 November 2023

393 - 24 November 2023 (matchboxes, resources and coat hangers)


Featured of image of Nail Studio by notcrying.club

## Links of the week ending 17 November 2023

[A Closer Look at the Web Accessibility Initiative](https://hackernoon.com/a-closer-look-at-the-web-accessibility-initiative)

[Design Tools — How graphic designers are creating their own AI tool](https://wepresent.wetransfer.com/stories/diy-design-tools-for-graphic-designers)s

[Elevating User Experiences: The Transformative Power of AI in UI/UX Design](https://medium.com/@chrissyp/elevating-user-experiences-the-transformative-power-of-ai-in-ui-ux-design-76fa4d21f17a)

[Type trends for 2024 every designer needs to know about](https://www.creativeboom.com/features/type-trends-for-2024/)

[The biggest trends in graphic design for 2024, as predicted by the creative industry](https://www.creativeboom.com/features/biggest-trends-in-graphic-design-for-2024/)

[Port’s new issue bucks the conventions of magazine design](https://www.creativereview.co.uk/port-redesign-uncommon/)

[Build classy CLI interfaces with Tailwind CSS-inspired utility classes and Ink](https://github.com/DaniGuardiola/classy-ink)

✨ and,

[Nail Studio](https://notcrying.club/nailstudio/)


Links of the week ending 17 November 2023

392 - 17 November 2023 (accessibility, 2024 trends and nail studio)


Featured image of the new branding for StepChange, the national debt charity by Robot Food.

## Links of the week ending 10 November 2023

[Robot Food cuts the confusion around debt with a new identity for StepChange](https://www.creativeboom.com/news/robot-food-step-change/)

[Best Examples of Apps Written in React.js](https://hackernoon.com/best-examples-of-apps-written-in-reactjs)

[AI in the Work of UI/UX Designer: Challenge or Opportunity?](https://hackernoon.com/ai-in-the-work-of-uiux-designer-challenge-or-opportunity)

[The vanishing designer - by Chuánqí Sun](https://www.doc.cc/articles/the-vanishing-designer)

[Top Things That I Love About UX Design](https://medium.com/@uiux.angel/top-things-that-i-love-about-ux-design-4f6edfdb838c)

[Craft Beautiful Documentation using Markdown](https://www.a4doks.com/)

✨ and,

[Never-before-seen Polaroids from the set of cult cyber classic Hackers](https://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/51269/1/hackers-1995-cult-movie-angelina-jolie-jonny-lee-miller-costume-design-bts)

Links of the week ending 10 November 2023

391 - 10 November 2023 (branding, ux and hackers)


Featured image of the Impact promotional brochure cover, Geoffrey Lee, 1965 (Stephenson Blake Foundry) (Image credit: Merrell Publishers)

## Links of the week ending 13 October 2023

[‘Mid-Century Type’ surveys the best graphic design from 1945 to 1965](https://www.wallpaper.com/design-interiors/corporate-design-branding/mid-century-type-graphic-design-book-1945-1965)

[Automate Graphic Design Activity with ChatGPT Canva Plugin](https://www.kdnuggets.com/automate-graphic-design-activity-with-chatgpt-canva-plugin)

[Adobe Releases New AI Models Aimed at Improved Graphic Design](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-10/adobe-releases-new-ai-models-aimed-at-improved-graphic-design)

[10 Essential Mobile App UI Design Principles for Building Outstanding Apps](https://hackernoon.com/10-essential-mobile-app-ui-design-principles-for-building-outstanding-apps)

[Neobrutalism components. A collection of type-safe components written in React and Tailwind](https://neobrutalism-components.vercel.app/)

[AI & SEO: How To Automatically Boost Your User Experience](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/ai-ux-phone-calls-callrail-spcs/496747/)

[This is what an unmoderated internet looks like. Content Moderation Is A Failed Project](https://www.garbageday.email/p/this-is-what-an-unmoderated-internet)

[GSAP – A wildly robust JavaScript animation library built for professionals](https://gsap.com/)

[500+ Animated Icons for the Modern Web](https://animatedicons.co/)

✨ and,

[Who signed that off? These hilarious design fails will leave you baffled](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12623763/Who-signed-hilarious-design-fails-leave-baffled.html)

387 - 13 October 2023 (graphic design, seo and freebies)


Featured image of a spread from the latest Type 01 magazine. Image courtesy of publisher.

## Links of the week ending 30 September 2023

[This Is Service Design Doing - #TISDD Method Library. 54 hands-on descriptions that help you DO the key methods used in service design](https://www.thisisservicedesigndoing.com/methods)

[20 Tailwind CSS Tips that will Amaze you](https://lembdadev.com/posts/tailwind-css-tip)

[CSS to TailwindCSS Converter](https://lembdadev.com/css-to-tailwind-converter)

["Why I'm in the Tailwind cult"](https://phoenixonrails.com/blog/why-im-in-the-tailwind-cult)

[First Issue curates accessible issues from popular open-source projects, and helps you make your next contribution to open-source](https://firstissue.dev/)

[The Artists And Cartoonists Who Designed Pee-Wee Herman’s World](https://www.tcj.com/the-artists-and-cartoonists-who-designed-pee-wee-hermans-world-part-one/)

[Flex Layout is Penpot’s ground-breaking responsive layout feature that makes Design and Code easier and faster](https://penpot.app/layout)

[Artificial Client - receive endless feedback on your work from simulated clients. Test your ideas and enjoy sweet A.I. powered rejection](https://www.artificialclient.com/)

✨ and,

[Print's not dead: the best magazines for graphic design inspiration](https://www.creativeboom.com/resources/prints-not-dead-the-best-magazines-for-graphic-design-inspiration/)

Links of the week ending 30 September 2023

385 - 30 September 2023 (service design, css and print)


Featured image: AI Generated portrait of a character in a scenic environment by Ikenaga Yasunari from the SDXL Artist Style Studies website

## Links of the week ending 377 - 4 August 2023

[The history of optical illusions in graphic design](https://www.creativereview.co.uk/optical-illusions-design-book/)

[3 golden graphic design rules for e-commerce businesses](https://www.creativebloq.com/features/graphic-design-rules-for-ecommerce)

[Meta’s Threads app launch fails to prioritize accessibility](https://mashable.com/article/threads-accessibility-twitter-alternatives)

[10 Essential Guidelines for Mobile App UI/UX Design](https://www.makeuseof.com/guidelines-for-mobile-app-ui-ux-design/)

[Nuances, Differences: Service Design vs. Experience Design in Customer Experience](https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/nuances-differences-service-design-vs-experience-design-in-customer-experience/)

✨ and,

[SDXL Artist Style Studies AI Generated portraits](https://sdxl.parrotzone.art/)

377 - 4 August 2023 (Graphic design, accessibility and SDXL)


Featured image of a high contrast toggle component from a uxdesign.cc high contrast article

## Links of the week ending 365 - 12 May 2023

[High-contrast — when you think dark mode is enough](https://uxdesign.cc/high-contrast-when-you-think-the-dark-mode-is-enough-d190218d4bba)

[Science Fiction Movie Lettering](https://reaganray.com/2020/05/12/sci-fi-movie-lettering.html)

[Will AI Kill SEO? We Asked ChatGPT](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/will-ai-kill-seo-we-asked-chatgpt/477576/)

[‘Brain engine optimisation’ is the new search engine optimisation](https://www.marketingweek.com/brain-engine-optimisation-new-seo/)

[The visual technique library for visual technique lovers. Enjoy. Learn. Don’t gatekeep.](https://eycndy.com/)

✨ and,

[Rest In Peace, Pokemon Go](https://www.thegamer.com/rest-in-peace-pokemon-go/)


365 - 12 May 2023 (accessibility, motion and pokémon)


Image of the We ♥ NYC logo from the New York State Department of Economic Development

## Links of the week ending 31 March 2023

[Why Is NYC’s New Tourism Logo Shouting at Me?](https://www.curbed.com/2023/03/we-heart-nyc-tourism-logo-shouting-graphic-design.html)

[Design notes on the 2023 Wikipedia redesign](https://uxdesign.cc/design-notes-on-the-2023-wikipedia-redesign-d6573b9af28d)

[Designing memorable dashboards](https://uxdesign.cc/designing-memorable-dashboards-4a4fc2d829a4)

[When and how to use HTML sitemaps for SEO and UX](https://searchengineland.com/html-sitemaps-seo-ux-when-how-394763)

[Why Creativity Matters: How type can revolutionise your brand](https://www.creativereview.co.uk/why-creativity-matters-type-branding/)

[The Hackney Type Map](https://www.we-heart.com/2023/03/23/hackney-type-map-by-blue-crow-media/)

✨ and,

[How AI misrepresents culture through a facial expression.](https://medium.com/@socialcreature/ai-and-the-american-smile-76d23a0fbfaf)

359 - 31 March 2023 (SEO, type and AI misrepresentation)


Featured image logo of the Bite-Sized Accessibility website

## Links of the week ending 24 February 2023

[Learn something new about accessibility with short and solid posts (less than 150 words)](https://bite-sized-a11y.com/)

[16 Effective Tips For Building A User-Friendly Mobile Website Or App](https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2023/02/21/16-effective-tips-for-building-a-user-friendly-mobile-website-or-app/)

[How to use chatGPT for UI/UX design: 25 examples](https://medium.com/prototypr/how-to-use-chatgpt-for-ui-ux-design-25-examples-f7772bea3e70)

[Synthesia is an AI video creation platform](https://www.synthesia.io/)

✨ and,

[Say hello to the latest annoying advertising trend](https://www.creativebloq.com/news/copywriting-trend)


Links of the week ending 24 February 2023

354 - 24 February 2023 (acessibility, tips and ai)


Image of Sennep Games’ Alphaput Tyopographic Mini Golf Course game

## Links of the week ending 13 January 2023

[Practice Your Stroke with Alphaputt, a Playful Typographic Mini Golf Course](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/01/alphaputt-mini-golf-game/)

[How AI turns text into images](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/how-ai-makes-images-based-on-a-few-words)

[ChatGPT, DALL-E 2 and the collapse of the creative process](https://theconversation.com/chatgpt-dall-e-2-and-the-collapse-of-the-creative-process-196461)

[Web3 Needs a UX Revolution Before We Start the Party](https://beincrypto.com/web3-needs-a-ux-revolution-before-we-start-the-party/)

✨ and,

[Genders.WTF - Foolish form UX](https://genders.wtf/)


348 - 13 January 2023 (typographic golf, ai collapse and gender.wtf)


Screenshot of the 12ft.io website banner; a service that shows you a cached, unpaywalled version of your favourite websites

## Links of the week ending 30 September 2022

[NN/g - Accidental Dismissal of Overlays: A Common Mobile Usability Problem](https://www.nngroup.com/articles/accidental-overlay-dismissal/)

[Prototyping to learn article](https://daverupert.com/2022/09/prototyping-to-learn/)

[The People’s Graphic Design Archive: Documenting materials that would otherwise disappear](https://www.creativeboom.com/resources/the-peoples-graphic-design-archive/)

[Designing with AI: Why AI art won’t ruin your design career](https://uxdesign.cc/the-ai-art-design-revolution-a431bcdcf881)

[National Trust says that autumn colours will be unique](https://news.sky.com/story/national-trust-says-that-autumn-colours-will-be-brighter-12707349)

✨ and,

[12ft – Hop any paywall](https://12ft.io/)


Links of the week ending 30 September 2022

333 - 30 September 2022 (usability, overlays and hopping paywalls)


Image of a recent conversation on Twitter about using radio buttons styled to look like buttons highlighted the essential problem with the perceived affordances and the functionality mismatch

## Links of the week ending 29 July 2022

[Perceived affordances and the functionality mismatch](https://tink.uk/perceived-affordances-and-the-functionality-mismatch)

[Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons From Science Fiction](https://www.techdirt.com/2016/03/10/techdirt-reading-list-make-it-so-interaction-design-lessons-science-fiction/)

[Twinings tea targets millennial consumers with new branding](https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/18-24-july/twinings-tea-new-branding/)

[A brief history of the numeric keypad](https://www.doc.cc/articles/a-brief-history-of-the-numeric-keypad)

[Superposition - Extract design tokens from websites and use them in code and in your design tool](https://superposition.design/)

[Create working apps directly from Figma without coding](https://www.buzzycompany.com/)

[Skillshare is an online learning platform with thousands of creative courses and classes taught by experts to help you learn new skills](https://www.skillshare.com/)

✨ and,

[DALLE-2 generated design mock-ups](https://twitter.com/joeyeatsfridays/status/1547273642538565640)


324 - 29 July 2022 (affordances, design lessons and mock-ups)


AI-generated typeface Aifont, from process.studio

## Links of the week ending 05 November 2021

[Human vs algorithm: how AI is impacting type design](https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/15-21-november-2021/algorithm-ai-type-design/)

[WCAG 3.0 What you need to know about the future of accessibility standards](https://uxdesign.cc/wcag-3-0-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-future-of-accessibility-standards-2e1f6374f2c7)

[Creating design systems with Figma Tokens](https://uxdesign.cc/creating-design-systems-with-figma-tokens-31686b8d672e)

[How graphic design and illustration brought The French Dispatch to life](https://www.creativereview.co.uk/french-dispatch-film-wes-anderson-graphic-design/)

[Amazing graphic design portfolios created at an online bootcamp](https://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/amazing-graphic-design-portfolios-created-at-an-online-bootcamp/)

[20 brilliant motion designers and animators whose work you can’t miss](https://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/20-motion-designers-and-animators-whose-work-you-cant-miss/)

✨ and,

[Weekly Obsidian.md Roundup](https://www.obsidianroundup.org/)

Links of the week ending 26 November 2021

289 - 26 November 2021 (ai, accessibility and inspiration)


Featured image of Blade Runner typography

## Links of the week ending 29 November 2020

[A rabbit hole dive into Blade Runner typography](https://typesetinthefuture.com/2016/06/19/bladerunner/)

[Wolff Olins rebrands Vonage, bringing “quirk” to boring B2B branding](https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/wolff-olins-vonage-rebrand-graphic-design-181119)

[The most diverse stock photos. Ever. 25,000 AI Generated Stock Models](https://www.generative.photos/)

[“twitter did someone want a touchbar tamagotchi?”](https://twitter.com/gracecondition/status/1196280265821151232?s=20)

✨ and,

[Typographic Illusions](https://www.typography.com/blog/typographic-illusions)

Links of the week ending 29 November 2019

186 - 29 November 2019 (bladerunner, typography, ai stock photos)


Featured image of Game of Thrones Gifs

## Links of the week ending 21 July 2017

[Game of Thrones Gifs](https://dribbble.com/eranmendel) by Eran Mendel - home page [here](http://www.eranmendel.com/)

[Scott Daniel Ellison: Witch Hazel - and on Instagram](https://clampart.com/2016/05/witch-hazel)

[Git for designers is here – Abstract is a platform for modern design teams to work together](https://www.goabstract.com/)

[How I used machine learning as inspiration for physical paintings. “Beast Mode Cru”, Abandoned school. Last painting in Shanghai, China (2012)](https://artplusmarketing.com/digital-processes-inspiring-analog-paintings-a358eb7801a0)

✨ and,

[dimmy.club - Device mockup generator for your screenshots](https://dimmy.club/)