
Featured image of Daniel Mullen’s book “[Transfigurations](https://danielmullen.info/publication/transfigurations)”, an opportunity to observe the methodologies and thought processes that were often intuitive yet deliberate throughout the creation of his works

## Links of the week ending 8 November 2024

[Color and Repetition Form Optical Rhythms in Daniel Mullen’s Geometric Paintings](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/11/daniel-mullen-geometric-paintings/)

[The 60–30–10 rule of colour](https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/the-60-30-10-rule-of-colour-c2748068b8aa)

[State of Frontend 2024](https://tsh.io/state-of-frontend/)

[Expressive Type Today: How typography captivates in a world of visual overload](https://www.creativeboom.com/features/expressive-type-today-counter-print/)

[GT Flare Typeface](https://gt-flaire.com/)

[Chester Zoo reveals new branding](https://www.creativereview.co.uk/chester-zoo-reveals-new-branding/)

✨ and,

[Tin Can Linux - A tiny distribution made with scraps I found on the internet™](https://github.com/tincan-linux)


Links of The Week

443 - 8 November 2024 (colour and tin can linux)


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)


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


Featured image of from the Beyond Monospace article describing making braces as curvy as they are at the top of the image is a matter of taste

## Links of the week ending 28 June 2024

[Beyond monospace: the search for the perfect coding font](https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/beyond-monospace-the-search-for-the-perfect-coding-font) - by Evil Martians

[FiftyFifty Spotlights Typography’s Power to Unite Us](https://www.printmag.com/type-tuesday/fiftyfifty-typography-exhibition/)

[Typography - Letterform Archive](https://oa.letterformarchive.org/)

[Disorder - Chris Ashworth, Graphic Designer](https://vol.co/collections/disorder)

[Splash of city colours hope to entice visitors](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cevvw55vgeko)

[The Euro 2024 logo is packed with clever Easter eggs](https://www.creativebloq.com/news/euro-2024-logo-design)

[I tried colour analysis and it was much harder than it looks](https://www.varsity.co.uk/fashion/27835)

[Rocketicons](https://rocketicons.io/en/icons) - A funny way handling icons

✨ and,

[CoverJunkie - A celebration of creative covers & their ace designers](https://coverjunkie.com/) 


424 - 28 June 2024 (graphic design, typography and coverjunkie)


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)


Image of Sarofsky Crafts Retro Typography for The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special

## Links of the week ending 30 December 2022

[Sarofsky Crafts Retro Typography for The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special](https://www.lbbonline.com/news/sarofsky-crafts-retro-typography-for-the-guardians-of-the-galaxy-holiday-special)

[‘Real problems worth solving’: Harnessing user experience design to tackle homelessness](https://www.wlu.ca/news/spotlights/2022/nov/real-problems-worth-solving-harnessing-user-experience-design-to-tackle-homelessness.html)

[How To Improve Your Website’s User Experience](https://minutehack.com/news/how-to-improve-your-websites-user-experience)

[Driverless shouldn’t equal meaningless: creatives can unlock the user experience](https://www.automotiveworld.com/articles/driverless-shouldnt-equal-meaningless-creatives-can-unlock-the-user-experience/)

[The biggest trends in graphic design for 2023, as predicted by the creative industry](https://www.creativeboom.com/features/biggest-trends-in-graphic-design-for-2023/)

✨ and,

[How reindeer eyes change colour in winter to help them see in the dark](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25634171-100-how-reindeer-eyes-change-colour-in-winter-to-help-them-see-in-the-dark/)

Links of the week ending 30 December 2022

346 - 30 December 2022 (guardians of the galaxy and colour)


Image showing the typographic baseline, the central point for making important decisions about how characters should look on a page

## Links of the week ending 9 December 2022

[Typography baseline: What is a baseline in typography](https://fabrikbrands.com/typography-baseline-what-is-a-baseline-in-typography/)

[Exploring the typographic worlds of M/M (Paris)](https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/5-9-december-2022/mm-paris-typographic-book/)

[Understand Color Symbolism](https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/understand-color-symbolism)

[Color Theory](https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/color-theory)

[Figma - How to organize your design files in a way that mirrors the design process…](https://uxdesign.cc/the-mise-en-place-of-product-design-e1b5050f528b)

[Customer Think - Are You Doing User Research Right?](https://customerthink.com/are-you-doing-user-research-right/)

✨ and,

[Futicons - Icons for the future](https://futicons.com/)


343 - 9 December 2022 (typography, colour and research)


Featured image of type sample showing extrusion depth and edge highlight variables at various values

## Links of the week ending 23 September 2022

[First Batch of Color Fonts Arrives on Google Fonts](https://material.io/blog/color-fonts-are-here)

[Human-Centered Design: What Architects Can Learn from UX Designers](https://www.archdaily.com/989103/human-centered-design-what-architects-can-learn-from-ux-designers)

[The UX Design Awards - Spring 2023 is now open for submissions](https://www.dexigner.com/news/33910)

[Design is almost Dead. Why UX is not everything you need](https://medium.com/codex/design-is-almost-dead-why-ux-is-not-everything-you-need-a46b1f55207a)

[Why designers quit - Matej Latin’s blog](https://matejlatin.com/blog/2022/09/19/why-designers-quit/)

✨ and,

[Gifs are cringe: how Giphy’s multimillion-dollar business fell out of fashion](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/sep/16/gifs-are-cringe-and-for-boomers-giphy-claims-in-meta-takeover-filing)

Links of the week ending 23 September 2022

332 - 23 September 2022 (colour fonts, hci and cringe gif)


Featured image by Magda Ehlers on Pexels

## Links of the week ending 06 May 2022

[The color model that nobody’s talking about (and why most devs are starting to move on from HEX and RGB](https://bootcamp.uxdesign.cc/the-color-model-that-nobodys-talking-about-76d8e77700b4)

[Google’s latest Roboto variant is a font customizable to its core](https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/6/23059186/google-roboto-flex-variable-font-web-design)

[Are some fonts ageist?](https://www.fastcompany.com/90747518/are-fonts-ageist)

[11 steps to keep Figma clean](https://uxdesign.cc/11-steps-to-keep-figma-clean-6cbf86d46f00)

[Practical CSS Scroll Snapping](https://css-tricks.com/practical-css-scroll-snapping/)

[Graphic design trends 2022: Kinetic typography, anti-design and risograph-like backgrounds](https://www.thedrum.com/profile/depositphotos/news/graphic-design-trends-2022-kinetic-typography-anti-design-and-risograph-inspired-backgrounds)

✨ and,

[Revolutionizing UX: Japanese Supremacy](https://uxplanet.org/revolutionizing-ux-japanese-supremacy-f3c78e9c8f63)


312 - 06 May 2022 (colour, fonts and japanese ux supremacy)


Featured image via uxdesign.cc

## Links of the week ending 22 April 2022

[UX fundamentals for web3 apps](https://uxdesign.cc/ux-fundamentals-for-web3-applications-8b9badec360e)

[Pageflows.com - design better user flows by learning from proven products](https://pageflows.com/)

[The Future of CSS: CSS Toggles](https://www.bram.us/2022/04/20/the-future-of-css-css-toggles/)

[Kevin Guthrie, artist - A History of Tofu in America](https://www.juliamartingallery.com/kevin-guthrie)

[‘Colour is in my blood!’: the vivid life of artist Sheila Hicks](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/apr/05/textile-artist-sheila-hicks-colour-blood-vivid-life)

✨ and,

[Reasonable Colors is an open-source color system for building accessible, nice-looking color palettescolors/)](https://reasonable.work/)

310 - 22 April 2022 (web3 ux, user flows and art)


Featured image of the Beauty of Bézier Curves YouTube video

## Links of the week ending 3 September 2021

[Why are hyperlinks blue?](https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/deep-dives/why-are-hyperlinks-blue/)

[Rainbow spreadsheets](https://uxdesign.cc/are-you-creating-usability-reports-no-ones-reading-consider-rainbow-spreadsheets-instead-bf26425db02e)

[Optical illusion makes this greyscale picture look like it is in colours](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9947343/Optical-illusion-makes-greyscale-picture-look-like-colours.html)

[The best paint colour trends for 2021](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/lifestyle/article/paint-colour-trends)

[Farrow & Ball reveals its colours of the year for 2022](https://www.housebeautiful.com/uk/decorate/looks/a37376514/farrow-ball-colour-trends-2022/)

✨ and,

[The Beauty of Bézier Curves - on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVwxzDHniEw)


Links of the week ending 3 September 2021

278 - 3 September 2021 (colour and bézier curve)


Featured image credit: @DanHollick

## Links of the week ending 30 July 2021

[WCAG colour rules and the problem that human perception of contrast is not linear (twitter thread)](https://twitter.com/DanHollick/status/1417895151003865090)

[Bright Tufts, Coils, and Lengthy Stitches Are Embroidered into a Textured Typographic Series](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2021/06/panna-eszenyi-36-days-of-type/)

[nativefier - Make any web page a desktop application](https://github.com/nativefier/nativefier)

[Understanding The Specific Web Accessibility Requirements Of Older ‘Silver Surfers’](https://www.forbes.com/sites/gusalexiou/2021/07/20/understanding-the-specific-web-accessibility-requirements-of-older-silver-surfers/)

and ✨

[Japanese Artist Creates Amazing Miniature Dioramas Every Day For 10 Years](https://digitalsynopsis.com/design/miniature-dioramas/)

273 - 30 July 2021 (WCAG, colour and dioramas)


Featured image of Color psychology in UX

## Links of the week ending 25 December 2020

[Color psychology in UX](https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/color-psychology-in-ux-b371fde795d3)

[We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow](https://itnext.io/we-rendered-a-million-web-pages-to-find-out-what-makes-the-web-slow-72bbba9ade96)

[Glassmorphism in user interfaces](https://uxdesign.cc/glassmorphism-in-user-interfaces-1f39bb1308c9)

[40+ Free Christmas Icons to Spruce Up Your Design](https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/christmas-iconsets-2015/)

✨ and,

[20 Free Fonts to Design for Christmas](https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/free-fonts-to-design-for-christmas/)

Links of the week ending 25 December 2020

242 - 25 December 2020 (colour psychology, ux and performance)


Image of Futura® Now

## Links of the week ending 30 October 2020

[Futura® Now - The Most Futura. Ever.](https://www.monotype.com/fonts/futura-now)

[The Psychology of Colours and Fonts in Content and Branding](https://www.relevance.com/the-psychology-of-colours-and-fonts-in-content-and-branding/)

[UI cheat sheet: The 5 love languages of the web](https://uxdesign.cc/ui-cheat-sheet-the-5-love-languages-of-the-web-8754c365dfe5)

[Top 15 Fonts for Logo Designers – That Never Fail!](https://fullstop360.com/blog/top-15-fonts-for-logo-designers-that-never-fail/)

[SEO Best Practices When Using GIFs](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/gif-seo-best-practices/384364/)

✨ and,

[ztext.js - Easy to implement, 3D typography for the web. Works with every font](https://bennettfeely.com/ztext)

234 - 30 October 2020 (psychology, colour and typography)


Featured image of Menus, Metaphors and Materials

## Links of the week ending 3 July 2020

[Menus, Metaphors and Materials: Milestones of User Interface Design](https://medium.com/@borism/menus-metaphors-and-materials-milestones-of-user-interface-design-f3f75481c46c)

[9 Catchy Icon Styles for Great User Experience](https://uxplanet.org/9-catchy-icon-styles-to-kill-it-in-your-next-project-618f952cfc83)

[How to use references in UI design](https://uxplanet.org/how-to-use-references-in-ui-design-18c1304993b6)

[The Return of the 90s Web](https://mxb.dev/blog/the-return-of-the-90s-web/)

[What I learnt from typography in the 90s](https://www.theteam.co.uk/blog/what-i-learnt-from-typography-in-the-90s/)

[This is a complete guide to Ahrefs](https://backlinko.com/ahrefs-guide)

[5 Big Rules of Typography, and Examples of Designers Breaking Them](https://we.graphics/blog/5-big-rules-of-typography-and-examples-of-designers-breaking-them/)

[Stock Photography Impact on SEO](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/stock-photography-and-seo/373153/)

[Transfer friction: typography as the surface between ideas & you](https://medium.com/web-typography-news/transfer-friction-typography-as-the-surface-between-ideas-you-6d89489c818e)

[Quick Tips for High Contrast Mode - CSS](https://css-tricks.com/quick-tips-for-high-contrast-mode/)

✨ and,

[Color Psychology – Brilliant Helping Hand in UX Design](https://uxstudioteam.com/ux-blog/color-psychology-in-ux-design/)


217 - 3 July 2020 (design, seo, ahrefs and typography)


Featured image of The Q Project

## Links of the week ending 26 June 2020

[The Q Project, an open-ended typographic play system](https://www.typotheque.com/blog/the_q_project_an_open-ended_typographic_play_system)

[25 Examples of Colorful Websites that Impress](https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/resources/25-examples-of-colorful-websites-that-impress)

[Typographic design: font styles and resources for designers](https://webflow.com/blog/typographic-design)

[Make seamless patterns with patternico](https://patternico.com/)

[Using calc to figure out optimal line-height](https://hugogiraudel.com/2020/05/18/using-calc-to-figure-out-optimal-line-height/)

[A Short History of the Cooper Black Typeface - YouTube](https://kottke.org/20/06/a-short-history-of-the-cooper-black-typeface)

✨ and,

[Simple Design Tips for Crafting Better UI Cards](https://uxplanet.org/simple-design-tips-for-crafting-better-ui-cards-19c1ac31a44e)

216 - 26 June 2020 (typography, colour, patterns and ui)


Featured image of The Typearture Variable Color Initials

## Links of the week ending 29 May 2020

[The Typearture Variable Color Initials](https://www.typearture.com/variable-color-font-initials/)

[The Fastest Google Fonts](https://css-tricks.com/the-fastest-google-fonts/)

[Spotify in Neumorphism](https://uxdesign.cc/spotify-in-neumorphism-2d1009d7477c)

[How to create neumorphism web components/elements with only CSS and HTML](https://themesberg.com/blog/tutorial/neomorphic-elements-css-html-tutorial)

[Let’s Make One of Those Fancy Scrolling Animations Used on Apple Product Pages](https://css-tricks.com/lets-make-one-of-those-fancy-scrolling-animations-used-on-apple-product-pages/)

[The Ultimate SEO Copywriting Guide](https://www.semrush.com/blog/seo-copywriting/)

[How to Create SEO-Friendly URLs (Step-by-Step)](https://ahrefs.com/blog/seo-friendly-urls/)

[9 Of The ‘World’s Worst Logos’ Fixed By Graphic Designer Emanuele Abrate](https://www.demilked.com/fixing-terrible-logos-emanuele-abrate/)

[Gamification: A guide for designers to a misunderstood concept](https://uxdesign.cc/gamification-aguide-for-designers-to-a-misunderstood-concept-4de5bef0c5d9)

[Web Typography 101](https://medium.com/@andreacrofts/web-typography-101-302af8a65be7)

[My Web Accessibility Testing Process](https://www.a11ywithlindsey.com/blog/web-accessibility-testing-process)

[Tips to Create an Accessible and Contrasted Color Palette](https://stephaniewalter.design/blog/tips-create-accessible-color-palette/)

✨ and,

[Scunthorpe Sans](https://vole.wtf/scunthorpe-sans) 🗯🚫 profanity-blocking font


212 - 29 May 2020 (scunthorpe, seo and accessibility)


Image of transport lettering typography of Margaret Calvert

## Links of the week ending 18 October 2019

[The Typography of Margaret Calvert (in conversation with It’s Nice That)](https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/margaret-calvert-in-conversation-graphic-design-081019)

[Public Type Works Open Source Fonts](https://www.publictype.works/)

[Colourful dots, by a bot](https://twitter.com/dots__bot)

✨ and,

[Mochi! Take notes and make flashcards using markdown, then study them using spaced repetition.](https://mochi.cards/)

179 - 18 October 2019 (margaret calvert and typography)


Featured image of an eye from the Icons8 website

## Links of the week ending 12 October 2019

[200 Free Animated Icons Made by Icons8 free for a link](https://icons8.com/animated-icons)

[Name all the colors! A collaborative effort to name every color in the RGB web space.](https://colornames.org/)

[Tools for Checking Contrast and Colour and More “Accessibility Resources”](https://mismatch.design/resources/accessibility-resources/2018/07/13/tools-for-checking-contrast-and-color/)

[A tool for quick color contrast ratio checks](https://contrast-ratio.com/)

[A tool for accessible color choices](http://colorsafe.co/)

[Weekly Design Inspiration #226 via Muzli design inspiration](https://medium.muz.li/weekly-design-inspiration-226-5fde64157729)

✨ and,

[Beistle Goods: An American Halloween Tradition Since 1921](https://www.creepycompany.com/collections/beistle)


178 - 11 October 2019 (halloween, design, colours and icons)


Image of Helvetica® Now font

## Links of the week ending 26 April 2019

[Helvetica® Now - And it’s 21st century facelift](https://www.monotype.com/fonts/helvetica-now/)

[Article: Clarity and Style](https://matthiasott.com/notes/clarity-and-style?)

[Hawkeye lets you conduct eye tracking tests on an iOS device, no extra hardware needed.](https://www.usehawkeye.com/)

[One Switch for Mac OS. All your powerful switches in one place.](https://fireball.studio/oneswitch/)

[Designing type: a HackWeek diary](https://uxdesign.cc/designing-type-a-hackweek-diary-9f07d91e7bcc)

✨ and,

[The most relaxing colour in the world? Dark blue apparently](https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/g-f-smith-most-relaxing-colour-survey-miscellaneous-100419)


154 - 26 April 2019 (helvetica now, eye tracking and relaxing colours)


Image of a tool to test color contrast

## Links of the week ending 22 March 2019

[Amazing tool to test color contrast and educate on accessibility guidelines.](https://color.review/)

[Thanos JS - Reduce the file size of your project down to 50%, by randomly deleting half of the files.](https://thanosjs.org/) 

[Why Do All Websites Look the Same? (Templates are not designs. Rather, they are rules for combining related data types)](https://medium.com/s/story/on-the-visual-weariness-of-the-web-8af1c969ce73)

[From cave paintings to Pantone chips. How Color Works, According to 4 Brilliant Old Diagrams](https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/how-color-works-according-to-4-brilliant-old-diagram)

✨ and,

[The power of mascots in branding and UI design](https://uxplanet.org/the-power-of-mascots-in-branding-and-ui-design-5973d12be955)


149 - 22 March 2019 (colour, contrast and thanos)


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)


Featured image of doodle art

## Links of the week ending 21 September 2018

[The place for habitual drawers to meet like minded individuals.](https://www.doodleaddicts.com/)

[This Font Is the Comic Sans of the 1970s](https://magenta.as/this-font-is-the-comic-sans-of-the-1970s-4c56ac4b3b2f)

[Smelvetica is a font for a more civilised time. Identifiable by its infamous sunken t, smelvetica ensures that your brand and message will always be eye catching, and unique. “If you really hate someone, teach them to recognise bad kerning”](http://tholman.com/smelvetica/)

[Ikonate / fully customisable & accessible vector icons](https://www.ikonate.com/)

✨ and,

[Trendy Palettes | Beautiful Color Palettes](https://trendypalettes.com/)


Links of the week ending 21 September 201

123 - 21 September 2018 (doodle, colour, vector and icon)


Featured image of colour strength

## Links of the week ending 1 June 2018

[Designer Challenges Himself To Create Logos With Hidden Meanings For A Year](https://designyoutrust.com/2018/05/designer-challenges-himself-to-create-logos-with-hidden-meanings-for-a-year)

[Screely instantly turns your screenshot or design into a beautiful image you can share anywhere.](https://www.screely.com/)

[Why You Should Never Use Pure Black for Text or Backgrounds](http://uxmovement.com/content/why-you-should-never-use-pure-black-for-text-or-backgrounds)

[Longest Poem in the World is a continuous stream of real-time tweets that rhyme.](http://www.longestpoemintheworld.com/)

[**Cool Backgrounds**](https://coolbackgrounds.io/) **is a collection of tools to create compelling, colorful images for blogs, social media, and websites**

✨ and,

[Japanese woman learned coding last year; she’s since created a popular app](https://www.aarp.org/work/working-at-50-plus/info-2018/worlds-oldest-app-developer-fd.html)

107 - 1 June 2018 (logo hidden meaning challenge and dark mode)


Featured image of Sam Alden’s Garfield comic

## Links of the week ending 7 July 2017

[Sam Alden comics](http://dubblebaby.blogspot.co.uk/)

[UX is Grounded in Rationale, not Design](https://uxplanet.org/ux-is-grounded-in-rationale-not-design-49e8f77b8f58)

[How 10 Minutes Of Meditation A Day Changed My Life](https://medium.com/the-mission/how-10-minutes-of-meditation-a-day-changed-my-life-12f7e0cd60a2)

[Colormind; a colour scheme generator that uses deep learning](http://colormind.io/)

✨ and,

[How intuitive are Twitter’s redesigned icons?](https://uxplanet.org/how-intuitive-are-twitters-redesigned-icons-f024f12641e4)

60 - 7 July 2017 (comics, ux, meditation, colour and icons)


Featured image of an off-centre alignment trend of 2017

## Links of the week ending 2 February 2017

[Vaunt - a free new Mac app to strip dominant colors from any image](http://vaunt.io/)

[50 things only remote workers will understand](http://blog.invisionapp.com/remote-worker-truths)

[Colour Theory For Designers: Creating Your Own Color Palettes](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/02/color-theory-for-designer-part-3-creating-your-own-color-palettes/)

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

✨ and,

[Tiny Trends #2: Off-Center Alignment](https://medium.com/ux-power-tools/tiny-trends-2-off-center-alignment-7e355a98a05)

39 - 3 February 2017 (colour, trends and ui)


Featured image from an A List Apart article, Color You Responsible

## Links of the week ending 5 January 2017

[Designing a conversational interface](http://blog.invisionapp.com/conversational-user-interface-design/) 

[How to communicate hidden gestures in mobile app](https://uxplanet.org/how-to-communicate-hidden-gestures-in-mobile-app-e55397f4006b)

[Image optimization, and the new WebP image format as the best for chrome browsers](https://uxplanet.org/how-to-communicate-hidden-gestures-in-mobile-app-e55397f4006b)

[SVG style inheritance and the ‘Flash Of Unstyled SVG’](https://sarasoueidan.com/blog/svg-style-inheritance-and-FOUSVG)

✨ and,

[Color you responsible](https://medium.com/alistapart/color-you-responsible-33fc780b495b)
