
Image of complete guide to iconography

## Links of the week ending 28 June 2019

[A complete guide to iconography](https://www.designsystems.com/iconography-guide/)

[Unapp – a directory of minimal and useful single-purpose apps.](https://unapp.li/)

[Information Overload, Why it Matters and How to Combat It - Article](https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/information-overload-why-it-matters-and-how-to-combat-it)

[Dropbox is getting a massive overhaul, wants to be the center of your workflow](https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/11/18661673/new-dropbox-desktop-app-google-docs-slack-atlassian)

[“How many web design concepts do you present to your client?” - One design concept, infinite revisions? - Article](https://uxdesign.cc/one-design-concept-infinite-revisions-b815a75a1acd)

✨ and,

[Shape.space - A visual, collaborative space to build, test, and refine your ideas](https://www.shape.space/)


Links of The Week

163 - 28 June 2019 (ux, ui and information overload)


## Links of the week ending 29 June 2018

[The Current State of Web Design (satirical)](http://fczbkk.com/current-state-of-webdesign/)

[Beyond Frustration: Three levels of happy design](http://uxmag.com/articles/beyond-frustration-three-levels-of-happy-design)

[Dead-simple, people-centric mail app (Works with Gmail iCloud Office365 Yahoo Exchange & IMAP)](https://maily.app/)

[Make Medium Readable Again: a chrome extension](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/make-medium-readable-agai/kljjfejkagofbgklifblndjelgabcmig?hl=en)

✨ and,

[The birth and death of privacy: 3,000 years of history told through 46 images.](https://medium.com/the-ferenstein-wire/the-birth-and-death-of-privacy-3-000-years-of-history-in-50-images-614c26059e)

111 - 29 June 2018 (satire, maily app and privacy)


Featured image from BubbleSort Zines

## Links of the week ending 22 June 2018

[BubbleSort Zines! for ages 8-100! Each zine focuses on one concept & is filled with comics, diagrams, examples and exercises.](https://shop.bubblesort.io/)

[Skateboarder. Illustrator. Painter. Screen printer. Matt McDole.](https://www.matthew-mcdole.com/)

[Design challenges created to test the processes and creativity of any designer.](https://designchallenge.xyz/)

[Horror Movies with the Beauty App Filter (YouTube)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amjCB1g_UbQ) 

[How to test accessibility of emails (including compendium of references)](https://cm.engineering/how-to-test-accessibility-of-emails-b68fed03f5f4)

✨ and,

[Earn money for testing websites, right from your couch on usertesters.io](https://usertesters.io/)


110 - 22 June 2018 (comics, design challenge and beauty app)


Featured image of Bennett Art illustration

## Links of the week ending 18 August 2017

[Bennett Art](http://bennettartgallery.com/)

http://you%20know%2C%20/#Halloween%20jack-o-lanterns%20were%20originally%20made%20out%20of%20turnips.%20Hmm,

[UI Design, The Falafel Way](http://hackingui.com/design/the-falafel-method-for-ui-design/)

[Probably, your first useful Touch Bar app](https://medium.com/pixelpoint/your-first-touch-bar-app-aea4f6111122)

✨ and,

[(an infographic company) Ferdio Data Viz](http://datavizproject.com/)


66 - 18 August 2017 (art, turnips, halloween and touch-bar)


Featured image of The Simpsons reimagined

## Links of the week ending 16 March 2017

[Simple, iconic and more than a bit mysterious Work by Land](http://www.workbyland.com/)

[Tim Berners-Lee: I invented the web. Here are three things we need to change to save it](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/11/tim-berners-lee-web-inventor-save-internet)

[Amazon Alexa Hack - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nss_2_rwdE)

[Google Motion Stills](https://get.google.com/motionstills/)

✨ and,

[4 designers reimagine ‘The Simpsons’](http://blog.invisionapp.com/simpsons-redesign/)


44 - 17 March 2017 (apps, illustration and comics)


Featured image from the game Glitchskier

## Links of the week ending 16 February 2017

[Glitchskier - It’s like flying a Asteroids style ship through a hex editor](http://www.glitchskier.com/)

[Finger Acrobatics & Responsive UI](https://uxplanet.org/finger-acrobatics-responsive-ui-80e832f16368)

[Microcopy: The Complete Guide gives you the knowledge and tools needed to write smart, effective and helpful microcopy for your digital interface.](https://www.amazon.com/Microcopy-Complete-Guide-Kinneret-Yifrah/dp/9655721086?ref=hackingui&utm_source=HackingUI+Weekly&utm_campaign=f3a8681043-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_72b6427305-f3a8681043-146842021&mc_cid=f3a8681043&mc_eid=39a94827d6)

[Flexbox explained with big, colorful, animated gifs](https://medium.freecodecamp.com/flexbox-explained-with-big-colorful-animated-gifs-1d1107a21a97#.wc888s23i)

[How to use colors in UI Design](https://blog.prototypr.io/how-to-use-colors-in-ui-design-16406ec06753#.c2zbwu7wq)

✨ and,

[Rauschenberg and Talking Heads](http://davidbyrne.com/journal/a-society-in-miniature)

Links of the week ending 17 February 2017

41 - 17 February 2017 (apps, ux, flexbox and art)


Featured image of an IKEA instruction manual: minimal, quirky, intuitive to pretty much anyone

## Links of the week ending 12 January 2017

[Designers share their resolutions for 2017](http://blog.invisionapp.com/designers-new-year-resolutions/)

[Designing for Brand Interaction](https://medium.com/@becca_u/designing-for-brand-interaction-95556c013782)

[Exacto iOS app: Quickly remove unwanted backgrounds from photos](https://www.producthunt.com/posts/exacto)

[The Sketch Handbook: Designing icons in Sketch](http://blog.invisionapp.com/designing-icons-in-sketch/)

✨ and,

[COMET - a new app to delete duplicate photos on your iPhone](https://cometapp.io/)


36 - 13 January 2017 (apps, icons and illustration)


Featured image: The Conversational Interface UI Kit

## Links of the week ending 8 December 2016

[How Apple Pay and Mint beat the competition with better product design](http://www.appcues.com/blog/apple-pay-mint-product-design)

[Would you work on a project that challenged your morals? interesting discussion on Designer News](https://www.designernews.co/stories/77664-would-you-work-on-a-project-that-challenged-your-morals)

[Dad Photoshops his son into epic scenarios using his expert-manipulation skills](http://www.boredpanda.com/dad-photoshop-son-digital-manipulation-adrian-sommeling/)

✨ and,

[Conversational Interface UI Kit](https://convointerface.com/)

31 - 9 December 2016 (apps, freebies and product design)


Featured image: Illustration to support the article of why design is never done

## Links of the week ending 18 November 2016

[Design is Never Done](https://design.google.com/articles/design-is-never-done)

[The Technical and Social Challenges of Conversational Design](https://blog.marvelapp.com/technical-social-challenges-conversational-design/)

[The All-New, Brand New, Best, Newest, MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, An Honest Review](https://medium.jasondoesstuff.com/the-all-new-brand-new-best-newest-macbook-pro-with-touch-bar-an-honest-review-a159e3842f9a)

✨ and,

[Quick Reminders - Later, for iPhone and Mac](http://laterapp.co/)


Links of the week ending 18 November 2016

28 - 18 November 2016 (apps, productivity and product design)


Image of why it’s becoming pointless to post to your work on Bēhance

## Links of the week ending 3 November 2016

[Origami Studio for Mac. A new tool for designing modern interfaces, built and used by designers at Facebook](http://origami.design/)

[Project Felix: 3D Tools for Graphic Designers](https://blogs.adobe.com/creativecloud/introducing-project-felix-3d-tools-for-graphic-designers/)

✨ and,

[Why it’s becoming pointless to post to your work on Bēhance](https://medium.com/@jack_mcgrath/why-its-becoming-pointless-to-post-to-your-work-on-b%C4%93hance-7bf00e368dba)

26 - 4 November 2016 (apps, bēhance and productivit)


Featured image: Snapchat Spectacles

## Links of the week ending 20 Oct 2016

[Snapchat announces Spectacles, their first hardware product](https://hackernoon.com/spectacles-are-the-anti-glass-fc59ad4fc877#.77u1tjb0w)

[Understanding your users’ mental model (by sketching)](https://hackernoon.com/spectacles-are-the-anti-glass-fc59ad4fc877#.77u1tjb0w)

[Figma VS Sketch. Figma is like Sketch in the browser with real-time collaboration](https://medium.com/@mengto/figma-vs-sketch-c01e5e74eddd)

[Meet Citysets, a growing collection of free city-based icon sets](http://citysets.co.uk/)

✨ and,

[Decider! An iMessage app post mortem](http://www.simpleandpretty.co/decider)


24 - 21 October 2016 (apps and product design)


Featured image: Comic Book fonts

## Links of the week ending 6 Oct 2016

[Designing Interface Animation - A List Apart](http://alistapart.com/article/designing-interface-animation)

[Figma - The first interface design tool with real-time collaboration](https://www.figma.com/)

[How Graphic Design Reduced Damages to VanMoof’s Shipments](https://www.subtraction.com/2016/09/26/how-graphic-design-reduced-damages-to-vanmoofs-shipments/)

[Where the Comic Book Font Came From](https://www.subtraction.com/2016/09/20/where-the-comic-book-font-came-from/)

✨ and,

[The Thumb Zone: Designing For Mobile Users](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/09/the-thumb-zone-designing-for-mobile-users/)

22 - 7 October 2016 (apps, comics, ux and ui)


Featured image: A bar graph

## Links of the week ending 29 September 2016

[10 things I’ve learned from 2 months of launching UX Power Tools](https://medium.com/ux-power-tools/10-things-ive-learned-from-two-months-of-launching-an-online-business-47762eaf226a?ref=hackingui&mc_cid=ac9c1e1647&mc_eid=39a94827d6#.hm69scqu7)

[Can your product have a midlife crisis?](https://medium.com/desk-of-van-schneider/the-product-midlife-crisis-5a0641ff73f5#.qlnqhvec9)

[Beautiful effects from Codrops](http://tympanus.net/Development/SegmentEffect/index2.html)

[Define your “need to haves” vs “want to haves”](https://medium.pjrvs.com/define-your-need-to-haves-vs-want-to-haves-79f77fbb6031#.49dqfa1lf)

[10 Sketch Tricks That Would Make Owen Wilson Say “Wooow!” (tons of GIFs!)](https://medium.com/ux-power-tools/8-sketch-tricks-that-would-make-owen-wilson-say-wooow-tons-of-gifs-d2145ffb6ab2#.57egh9k06)

✨ and,

[Did Hitler have great designers? Can good design be bad design?](https://medium.com/desk-of-van-schneider/can-good-design-be-bad-design-f76504b8e018#.tzramfs0h)

Links of the week ending 30 September 2016

21 - 30 September 2016 (apps, css, ux and ui)


Featured image: Sketch software application logo

## Links of the week ending 22 September 2016

[Accountability, a 3-step formula for accountability between yourself and those you interact with](https://medium.com/@danielmall/accountability-e64e18e4cfce?mc_cid=ac9c1e1647&mc_eid=39a94827d6#.mgf1exhnj)

[Don’t be too inspired (If you want to contribute something original, it may be best to stay away from those who might inspire you too much)](https://m.signalvnoise.com/dont-be-too-inspired-178c32dc53db#.vxafvzutb)

[Hotjar - Find out what your users want, like, and care about on your site](https://www.hotjar.com/)

[Sketch 40 is out](https://www.sketchapp.com/support/updates/sketch-40)

✨ and,

[The Beginner’s Guide to Writing Sketch Plugins Part 1 — Getting Started](https://medium.com/@marianomike/the-beginners-guide-to-writing-sketch-plugins-part-1-28a5e3f01c68?mc_cid=ac9c1e1647&mc_eid=39a94827d6#.djikh7j86)

Links of the week ending 23 September 2016

20 - 23 September 2016 (apps, ux and ui)


Featured image: Illustration of an eye

[5 Design Jobs That Won’t Exist In The Future](https://www.fastcodesign.com/3063318/5-design-jobs-that-wont-exist-in-the-future)

[4 Simple Ways to Personalize Your Product Experience](http://www.appcues.com/blog/4-simple-ways-to-personalize-your-product-experience/)

[Engineering principles: make it reversible](https://blog.intercom.com/engineering-principles-make-reversible/)

[Apple Plugs - Headphone connector](http://appleplugs.com/)

✨ and,

[Gmail Chrome extension to help you keep focus when writing emails](https://inboxwhenready.org/)

Links of the week ending (16 September 2016)

19 - 16 September 2016 (apps and productivity)


Featured image: New Web Typography (2016)

## Links of the week ending 24 March 2016

[The New Web Typography](https://www.robinrendle.com/essays/new-web-typography/)

[Why is Vertical Rhythm an Important Typography Practice?](http://zellwk.com/blog/why-vertical-rhythms)

[Microinteractions in Mobile Banking](https://medium.com/@rafaelquesada/micro-interactions-in-mobile-banking-9d49a3510f03#.nquz5vcxj)

[Why Circular Profile Pictures Accentuate Faces](http://uxmovement.com/thinking/why-circular-profile-pictures-accentuate-faces/)

✨ and,

[Sketch 3 from A to Z: Become an App Designer](https://www.udemy.com/learnsketch3/?couponCode=youtube50&siteID=15i2qGWlpqo-72q0F6jcv0Lest1aukAq3A&LSNPUBID=15i2qGWlpqo)