
Featured image of the Analog Whispers pixel font. A modern 8-bit pixel font packed with 187 character glyphs.

## Links of the week ending 16 August 2024

[The online portfolio of Shelby Temples - hewillnevergohungry.com](https://hewillnevergohungry.com/)

[Pixel font sale by Vexed](https://itch.io/s/107531/mega-font-sale)

[SXSW frontend zine by campmiles](https://campmiles.com/) - [repo here](https://github.com/macamp0328/sxsw-zine)

[Glass.js - An AI copilot for React and Next.js developers](https://useglass.ai/)

[7 Best Practices When Designing Inclusive UI for IoT Devices](https://www.iotforall.com/7-best-practices-when-designing-inclusive-ui-for-iot-devices)

[Proton Duo: Unlimited privacy for two](https://proton.me/blog/proton-duo)

[Blog - TinaCMS Version 2.1](https://tina.io/blog/TinaCMS-Version-21/)

[Fortle - Fortnite Daily Word Game inspired by Wordle that has you guessing Fortnite related words](https://www.fortniteskin.com/fortle)

[Addicted, overwhelmed, oversubscribed: How technology hooked the world](https://every.to/napkin-math/the-addiction-economy-7590d4c0-19c6-4eab-9653-e7a961b6aeb9)

✨ and,

[Analog Whispers - Pixel Font](https://doublegum.gumroad.com/l/analogwhispers)


Links of The Week

431 - 16 August 2024 (inclusive design and pixel fonts)


Featured image from System Process Form: Type as Algorithm book ©[MuirMcNeil](https://muirmcneil.com/about/)

## Links of the week ending 19 April 2024

[System Process Form: Type as Algorithm - the ultimate typographic experiment](https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/system-process-form-type-as-algorithm-hardcover)

[How files in Linux work](https://popovicu.com/posts/how-files-in-linux-work/)

[Humane AI Pin review: not even close](https://www.theverge.com/24126502/humane-ai-pin-review)

[Microsoft - How to turn your heuristics evaluation into a party](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/customer-insights-research/articles/how-to-turn-your-heuristics-evaluation-into-a-party/)

[Jon Juarez's prints](https://lama.co/harriorrihar/en)

[Chloe Norman on her fun character designs for an award-winning restaurant](https://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/chloe-norman-on-how-her-character-design-helped-sell-an-award-winning-restaurant/)

[Fans rejoice as the New York Jets revive their favourite logo design](https://www.creativebloq.com/news/new-york-jets-logo-design)

✨ and,

[Dog poo golf](https://vole.wtf/dog-poo-golf/)


414 - 19 April 2024 (graphic design, typography and dog poo golf)


Featured image of TJ Maxx's new brand font by McCann Design: Maxx for TJ Maxx (Copyright © McCann Design, 2024)

## Links of the week ending 22 March 2024

[Oh Sh\*t, My App is Successful and I Didn’t Think About Accessibility](https://jacobbartlett.substack.com/p/oh-sht-my-app-is-successful-and-i)

[Funkify - Disability Simulator](https://www.funkify.org/)

[New platform launches to help web designers navigate accessibility guidelines](https://www.understandingaccessibility.com/)

[You are using React Context API WRONG](https://blog.codeminer42.com/you-are-using-react-context-wrong/)

[The Cynefin framework: navigating complexity in UX](https://uxdesign.cc/the-cynefin-framework-navigating-complexity-in-ux-2bcda69d5cfd)

[VR game Nock comes alive with Y2K-inspired graphics](https://www.creativereview.co.uk/nock-branding-collected-works-vr-game/)

[Special report: how design agencies are actually using AI in 2024](https://www.creativeboom.com/features/special-report-how-design-agencies-are-using-ai-in-2024/)

[Why is the world losing color?](https://uxdesign.cc/why-is-the-world-losing-color-56f740f465d4)

[Article - Jakob Has Jumped the Shark](https://adrianroselli.com/2024/03/jakob-has-jumped-the-shark.html)

[Taildocs is a faster searcher tool for Tailwind CSS](https://miloai.lemonsqueezy.com/)

[teable: No Code Database](https://teable.io/)

✨ and,

[First custom brand font for TJ Maxx](https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/mccann-design-tj-maxx-typeface-graphic-design-project-210324)


410 - 22 March 2024 (accessibility, jakob and brand font)


Featured image of [Figma Creator Micro](https://worklouder.cc/figma/), "all the shortcuts you love packed into a beautiful hardware companion"

## Links of the week ending 26 January 2024

[Figma’s Creator Micro made me a macro pad person with its colorful, clicky keys](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/figmas-creator-micro-made-me-a-macro-pad-person-with-its-colorful-clicky-keys/)

[Not Canva, not Adobe, Kittl's approach to graphic design attracts $36M investment](https://tech.eu/2024/01/24/kittls-approach-to-graphic-design-attracts-36m-investment/)

[A witty rebrand for US TV network, The CW](https://www.creativereview.co.uk/dixonbaxi-rebrand-us-tv-network-the-cw/)

[Why The Traitors UK's visual identity is so brilliant](https://www.creativebloq.com/news/the-traitors-uk-logo)

[Google’s SEO Starter Guide Set For A Major Update](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/googles-seo-starter-guide-set-for-a-major-update/506437/)

[The 3 secrets to Font Pairing](https://maketypework.com/the-3-secrets-to-font-pairing)

[Lovely Letters: The Best Typographic Moments of 2023](https://lbbonline.com/news/lovely-letters-the-best-typographic-moments-of-the-year)

✨ and,

['Seeing the responses has been really uplifting': How we made the Wonka movie typography](https://www.creativebloq.com/news/how-we-made-wonka-logo)


402 - 26 January 2024 (hardware, software and wonka)


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 from [HOCUS :FOCUS](https://focus.hteumeuleu.com/ "Link to HOCUS :FOCUS A keyboard accessibility horror game") A keyboard accessibility horror game

## Links of the week ending 389 - 27 October 2023

[HOCUS :FOCUS A keyboard accessibility horror game](https://focus.hteumeuleu.com/)

[An AI chatbot that knows all of the NextJS docs](https://ask.cord.com/NextJS/MnYxDOOsxIyJXQuOAfagnneOOgmxvtzrbUyazJBElwGxcoQawtqpu)

[How graphic designers are creating their own AI tools](https://wepresent.wetransfer.com/stories/designing-fictional-ui-for-tv-and-film)

[Windframe is an AI-enhanced Visual tailwind builder and editor for rapidly prototyping and building stunning webpages using tailwind css](https://www.devwares.com/windframe/)

[What should be the contrast level of inactive buttons?](https://uxdesign.cc/what-should-be-the-contrast-level-of-inactive-buttons-e618424c1f57)

✨ and,

[Hollowed Out: Exhuming an Ethics of Hollowing in Tite Kubo's Bleach](https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/pacicoasphil.50.2.0242)

389 - 27 October 2023 (accessibility, graphic design and bleach)


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: visualisation of the sound of the dialup: an example handshake

## Links of the week ending 1 September 2023

[Exploring Screen Readers as a UX Designer](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/exploring-screen-readers-ux-designer-shelly-benson)

[WCAG 3 and APCA](https://typefully.com/u/DanHollick/t/sle13GMW2Brp)

[A11y Cat: digital accessibility resources](https://raindrop.io/a11ycat/a11y-cat-digital-accessibility-resources-35893871)

[How to Use Ideogram AI](https://nerdschalk.com/how-to-use-ideogram-ai/)

[GitHub Copilot Chat UX Revamped in VS Code Update](https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2023/08/07/vs-code-1-81.aspx)

[Paula Scher to launch graphic design course on BBC Maestro](https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/28-august-1-september-2023/paula-scher-to-launch-graphic-design-course-on-bbc-maestro/)

[YouTube just dropped another delightful new logo design](https://www.creativebloq.com/news/youtube-grwm-logo)

✨ and,

[The sound of the dialup, pictured](https://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-pictured.html)


Links of the week ending 1 September 2023

381 - 1 September 2023 (screen readers, ai and dialup)


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)


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: Animated GIF to celebrate 20 years of CSS

## Links of the week ending 22 December 2016

[20 years of CSS](https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS20/)

[Dear professionals, it’s time to stop pretending AI won’t take our jobs](https://thinkgrowth.org/dear-professionals-its-time-to-stop-pretending-ai-won-t-take-our-jobs-b19b7092d306)

[Conversational UI principles - complete process of designing a website chatbot](https://medium.com/swlh/conversational-ui-principles-complete-process-of-designing-a-website-chatbot-d0c2a5fee376)

✨ and,

[Excellent, in-depth intro to TypeScript](https://toddmotto.com/typescript-the-missing-introduction)

Links of the week ending 23 December 2016