
Featured image of [ColorADD](https://www.coloradd.net/en/), a sign code for aiding low vision/blind people to recognise colours. ColourADD consists of geometric shapes representing colors and color combinations

## Links of the week ending 19 July 2024

[ColorADD is a unique, universal, inclusive and non-discriminative language that enables the color blind to identify colors](https://www.coloradd.net/en/)

[Theory of Colours: James Sowerby’s ‘A New Elucidation’ (1809)](https://flashbak.com/theory-of-colours-james-sowerbys-a-new-elucidation-1809-469067/)

[From GUI to Gen AI and the impact on accessibility and usability](https://medium.muz.li/from-gui-to-gen-ai-8e1bded36fe7)

[What Is End User Experience Monitoring?](https://www.designrush.com/agency/ui-ux-design/trends/end-user-experience-monitoring)

[Exploring letterform design through LEGO, the printing press ](https://today.uic.edu/exploring-letterform-design-through-lego-the-printing-press/)

[Beautiful Fluid Typography Simulation Rendered With Three.js' Troika](https://80.lv/articles/beautiful-fluid-typography-simulation-rendered-with-three-js-troika/)

[PeerTube 6.2 is out. A decentralized and federated alternative to YouTube.](https://joinpeertube.org/news/release-6.2)

✨ and,

[Human Sheep Contest - on Twitter](https://twitter.com/emikusano/status/1561333918858887168?s=21\&t=tZKHbgNyZU42RAQmVGxgjg)


Links of The Week

427 - 19 July 2024 (colorADD, typography and human sheep)


Screenshot from the Floor796 website, an ever-expanding animation scene showing the life of the 796th floor of the huge space station

## Links of the week ending 360 - 21 April 2023

[Social media is doomed to die](https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/18/23672769/social-media-inevitable-death-monetization-growth-hacks)

[ChatGPT: Is SEO - As We Know It - Dead?](https://www.forbes.com/sites/nishatalagala/2023/03/25/chatgpt-is-seoas-we-know-itdead/)

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

[The Daily Heller: The Magazine That Chronicled UK Design](https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-the-magazine-that-chronicled-uk-design/)

[Visualising colorblindness](https://www.theverge.com/23650428/colorblindness-design-ui-accessibility-wordle)

[Create React App is Dead! Here are Some Alternatives](https://hackernoon.com/create-react-app-is-dead-here-are-some-alternatives)

✨ and,

[Floor796 is an ever-expanding animation scene showing the life of the 796th floor of the huge space station!](https://floor796.com/)

362 - 21 April 2023 (colourblindness, accessibility and floor796)


Featured image screenshot of the low quality doodle spin youtube short meme

## Links of the week ending 3 February 2023

[Penpot 1.17 is out!](https://penpot.app/)

[Neurodiversity Design System](https://www.neurodiversity.design/)

[Visual design rules you can safely follow every time](https://anthonyhobday.com/sideprojects/saferules/)

[Gmail creator says ChatGPT will destroy Google’s business in two years](https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/chatgpt-destroy-googles-business-two-years)

[The biggest Super Bowl design controversies ever](https://www.creativebloq.com/news/super-bowl-design-controversies)

✨ and,

[meme](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bSMANWZH3HQ) - low quality doodle spin (youtube short sadly now offline)


351 - 3 February 2023 (penpot, neurodiversity and a meme)


Featured image via Redbubble - Soulages Peinture 8 painting avril 1989

## Links of the week ending 28 October 2022

[French Painter Pierre Soulages, Who Dedicated His Career to the Deepest Color Black, Has Died at Age 102](https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/17-21-oct-2022/typographic-interventions-dreamlike-publication-sondra-perry/)

[Typographic interventions shape “dreamlike” publication for artist Sondra Perry](https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/17-21-oct-2022/typographic-interventions-dreamlike-publication-sondra-perry/)

[The importance of being accessibility-first for effective UX design](https://www.developer-tech.com/news/2022/sep/26/the-importance-accessibility-first-effective-ux-design/)

[Why DesignOps Matters: How to Improve Your Design Processes](https://www.infoq.com/articles/designops-improve-process/)

[Be Afraid! The Silent Role of Fear in Decision Making](https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/be-afraid-the-silent-role-of-fear-in-decision-making)

[Horror Vacui: The Fear of Emptiness](https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/horror-vacui-the-fear-of-emptiness)

✨ and,

[UFO Timeline - A time-based overview of the UFO Phenomenon](https://ufotimeline.com/)


337 - 28 October 2022 (fear, accessibility and ufos)


Image credit: Netflix. Image of an early netflix logo

## Links of the week ending 2 September 2022

[The original Netflix logo was pretty wild](https://www.creativebloq.com/news/netflix-logo)

[Design lessons learned from people with dementia](https://www.mcknightsseniorliving.com/home/columns/marketplace-columns/finding-the-right-fit-design-lessons-learned-from-people-with-dementia/)

[Why the design thinking process is so important: a primer](https://www.fastcompany.com/90776176/design-thinking-process)

[How SEO & Graphic Design Can Become A Dream Team](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/how-seo-graphic-design-can-become-a-dream-team/459499/)

[The 6 rules of luxury logo design](https://www.thedrum.com/opinion/2022/05/30/the-6-rules-luxury-logo-design)

✨ and,

[Hilarious mockup templates show what your designs really look like in the wild](https://www.creativeboom.com/resources/fockups/)

Links of the week ending 2 September 2022

329 - 2 September 2022 (dementia, design thinking and fockups)


Featured image of typography inspired by the signage of Millennium Mills for a new East London neighbourhood

## Links of the week ending 26 August 2022

[Understanding UX: The Myths and Misconceptions of User Experience Design](https://www.lbbonline.com/news/understanding-ux-the-myths-and-misconceptions-of-user-experience-design)

[The typography of an iconic mill inspires the identity of a new East London neighbourhood](https://www.creativeboom.com/news/dnco-develops-place-brand-for-silvertown/)

[Anthony Burrill launches evocative typographic archive](https://www.creativebloq.com/news/anthony-burrill-xyz)

[Communication Arts is calling for entries for its 13th annual Typography Competition](https://www.dexigner.com/directory/detail/15575)

[What colors cause anxiety? The 5 colors that will ruin your mood](https://www.homesandgardens.com/interior-design/what-colors-cause-anxiety)

[Britons urged to avoid popular front door colours - ‘not a good idea’](https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/property/1660289/Interior-front-door-colours-avoid-add-value-home)

✨ and,

[Announcing InAppBrowser.com - see what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser](https://krausefx.com/blog/announcing-inappbrowsercom-see-what-javascript-commands-get-executed-in-an-in-app-browser)

328 - 26 August 2022 (typography, ux and anxiety)


Featured image of bespoke typography

## Links of the week ending 9 April 2021

[Bespoke typography provides the branding backbone for microbrewery Diagonale](https://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/brand-brothers-craft-identity-for-micro-brewery-diagonale/)

[Designing for the autistic community](https://uxdesign.cc/inclusive-design-guide-7-principles-of-designing-for-the-autistic-community-1e6dcd4bae85)

[This astonishing optical illusion could show you a brand new colour - It’s going wild on TikTok](https://www.creativebloq.com/news/cyan-optical-illusion)

[Pokémon UX designer asks fans for feedback on ‘what drives you mad about our games](https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/pokemon-ux-designer-asks-fans-for-feedback-on-what-drives-you-mad-about-our-games/)

✨ and,

[UX Design Awards 2021: Call for Entries](https://www.dexigner.com/news/33621)


257 - 9 April 2021 (pokémon ux, autism ux and typograph)


Image of a dyslexia typography styled t-shirt

## Links of the week ending 5 October 2018

[Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours. A recreation of the original 1821 color guidebook with new cross references.](https://www.c82.net/)

[CSS Border-Radius Can Do That?](https://medium.com/9elements/css-border-radius-can-do-that-d46df1d013ae)

[The Oatmeal’s Immutable Law of Design.](http://s3.amazonaws.com/theoatmeal-img/comics/idiocy/idiocy_new.png%20or%20http://theoatmeal.com/comics/idiocy)

[Miniature Calendar](http://miniature-calendar.com/)

[Most popular search terms in Google’s 20 years.](https://20years.withgoogle.com/)

✨ and,

[Google’s AI SEMANTRIS. Word association game powered by ‘machine learning’.](https://research.google.com/semantris)


125 - 5 October 2018 (colours, nomenclature, semantris and design laws)


Image of Wikipedia’s Lamest Edit Wars - Visualised

## Dyslexia Awareness Week 2018

[7 Things I Learned Creating an Accessibility Guide for Designers](https://blog.prototypr.io/7-things-i-learned-creating-an-accessibility-guide-for-designers-4715af78f68a)

[Typefaces for Dyslexia](http://adrianroselli.com/2015/03/typefaces-for-dyslexia.html)

[How to get started with website accessibility](https://medium.freecodecamp.org/4-principles-for-getting-started-with-website-accessibility-4e85f75730b)

[Variable Fonts and Dyslexia](http://adrianroselli.com/2018/08/variable-fonts-and-dyslexia.html)

[OpenDyslexic; A typeface for Dyslexia](https://www.opendyslexic.org/)

[Good Fonts for Dyslexia – An Experimental Study](https://blog.dyslexia.com/good-fonts-for-dyslexia-an-experimental-study/)

[Dyslexia Awareness Tee | Dyslexia Gift of Seeing Differently on Etsy](https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/583181703/dyslexia-awareness-tee-dyslexia-gift-of?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=dyslexia%20awareness&ref=sr_gallery-1-8&more_colors=1)

[Wikipedia’s Lamest Edit Wars - Visualised](https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/wikipedia-lamest-edit-wars/)

[The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly pixel art](https://www.behance.net/gallery/28057451/The-Good-the-Bad-and-the-Ugly-pixel-art)

[Httpster is an inspiration resource showcasing totally rocking websites made by people from all over the world.](https://httpster.net/2018/sep/)

[3 Essential Design Trends, September 2018](https://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2018/08/design-trends-sept-2018/) 

✨ and,

[Vic Reeves Art - James Roderick Moir, better known by the stage name Vic Reeves and sometimes credited as Jim Moir, is an English comedian, artist, actor and television presenter best known for his double act with Bob Mortimer. Instagram / Gallery & Shop](https://www.instagram.com/jamesmoir12/)

Links of the week ending 7 September 2018

121 - 7 September 2018 (dyslexia, opendyslexic, pixel art and httpster)


Image of text readability for dyslexic users

## Links of the week ending 6 January 2018

[Improving text readability for dyslexic users with skip-link underlines](https://medium.com/@iamhiwelo/improving-text-readability-for-dyslexic-users-with-skip-ink-underlines-bf52a2f3426b)

[An AI Learned To Make Fireworks, And They’re Mesmerizing](https://www.fastcodesign.com/90156087/an-ai-learned-to-make-fireworks-and-theyre-mesmerizing)

[Trending Colour Palettes on Dribbble With This New Platform](https://www.invisionapp.com/blog/color-palettes/)

[The Psychology Principles Every UI/UX Designer Needs to Know](https://uxplanet.org/the-psychology-principles-every-ui-ux-designer-needs-to-know-24116fd65778)

[This Sweet App Distracts Kids When They’re Stuck In The Hospital](https://www.fastcodesign.com/90154852/this-sweet-app-distracts-kids-when-theyre-stuck-in-the-hospital)

✨ and,

[Shoelace.css - CSS Starter Kit for Developers](https://shoelace.style/)
