
Featured image of [2BitToy](https://2bittoy.carrd.co/) a Gameboy Camera custom shell designed for the retro Nintendo fan who wants to dabble a little more with their Gameboy photography

## Links of the week ending 3 May 2024

[2BitToy photography](https://2bittoy.carrd.co/)

[Fockups is back: funny mockup templates that offer a more realistic view of your designs](https://www.creativeboom.com/resources/fockups-round-two/)

[JSON Canvas - An open file format for infinite canvas data](https://jsoncanvas.org/)

[The Man Who Killed Google Search](https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/)

[Skittles gets nonsensical in Gen Z flavoured brand refresh](https://www.creativebloq.com/news/skittles-brand-refresh)

[7 graphic design trends: Which one will boost your communication in 2024?](https://www.thedrum.com/open-mic/7-graphic-design-trends-which-one-will-boost-your-communication-in-2024)

[Fortnite update 29.40 release date: Star Wars comes to Battle Royale this week](https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/gaming/fortnite-update-29-40-release-date-star-wars-battle-royale-b1154473.html)

✨ and,

[The Fediverse of Things](https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/04/the-fediverse-of-things/)


Links of The Week

416 - 3 May 2024 (gameboy photography and the fediverse)


Featured image: A Redditors visual view of the announcement of a new Google logo

## Links of the week ending 30 June 2023

[Figma offers new mode for developers, adds variables, prototyping features](https://www.computerworld.com/article/3700079/figma-offers-new-mode-for-developers-adds-variables-prototyping-features.html)

[CMA finds Adobe’s deal to acquire Figma could mean less choice for designers of digital apps, websites and other products.](https://www.gov.uk/government/news/design-software-deal-could-harm-uk-digital-economy)

[Apple releases official design kit with visionOS resources for Figma](https://9to5mac.com/2023/06/21/visionos-design-kit-figma/)

[What Developers Need to Know about Fonts and Typography](https://thenewstack.io/what-developers-need-to-know-about-fonts-and-typography/)

[Designing for a Global Audience: Tips for Multilingual UX Design](https://www.startupguys.net/tips-for-multilingual-ux-design/)

[User Experience (UX) Design Principles in frontend Development](https://business-review.eu/tech/it/user-experience-ux-design-principles-in-frontend-development-247160)

✨ and,

[Yes, there’s yet another new Google logo here to confuse you](https://www.creativebloq.com/news/find-my-device-google-logo)

372 - 30 June 2023 (google logo, figma, fonts and typography)


Image of the Google logo dissected (Image credit: A\_freakin\_t-rex on Reddit)

## Links of the week ending 17 February 2023

[People are still just discovering the tiny imperfection in Google’s logo](https://www.creativebloq.com/news/google-logo-optical-illusion-imperfection)

[This Procreate typography hack will brighten up your work](https://www.creativebloq.com/news/this-procreate-typography-hack-will-brighten-up-your-work)

[Slanted - Publisher of books & magazines (instagram link)](https://www.instagram.com/slanted_publishers/?hl=en)

[Mastering The Skill Of Design Thinking](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mastering-Design-Thinking-Systematic-Considerably-ebook/dp/B082FPZ5SJ)

[Why Appointment Notification Tech Needs User-Centered Design](https://patientengagementhit.com/news/why-appointment-notification-tech-needs-user-centered-design)

[What Is User Experience? How Design Matters To SEO](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/ux-design-seo/476959/)

✨ and,

[Calvin & Hobbes creator returns after 28 years with illustrated book ‘for grown-ups](https://www.polygon.com/23601015/bill-watterson-calvin-hobbes-new-book-the-mysterie)’

353 - 17 February (design, typography and calvin & hobbes)


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 of CSS min(), max(), and clamp() function

## Links of the week ending 22 January 2021

[min(), max(), and clamp(): three logical CSS functions to use today](https://web.dev/min-max-clamp/)

[Button Buddy! Accessible Button Generator](https://buttonbuddy.dev/)

[Viral Typeface, letters of lockdown](https://www.viraltypeface.com/)

[List of the best fonts for coding with live preview devfonts.gafi.dev](https://devfonts.gafi.dev/)

[EB Garamond is intended to be an excellent, classical, Garamond. Available on Google Fonts](https://fonts.google.com/specimen/EB+Garamond)

✨ and,

[No more Facebook → Privacy-friendly alternatives to Facebook that don’t track you](https://nomorefacebook.xyz/)

246 - 22 January 2021 (css, typography, typefaces and fonts)


Featured image of how to create great error pages

## Links of the week ending 28 February 2020

[How to create great error pages](https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-create-great-error-pages-b2de5e5daca8)

[Google Tag Manager vs Google Analytics: What’s the difference?](https://www.analyticsmania.com/post/google-tag-manager-vs-google-analytics/)

[12 SEO Best Practices That Everyone Should Follow](https://ahrefs.com/blog/seo-best-practices/)

[What is SEO Content? How to Write Content that Ranks](https://ahrefs.com/blog/seo-content/)

[These Lyrics Do Not Exist - Lyrics generated using Artificial Intelligence](https://theselyricsdonotexist.com/)

[Iconic Icons / Microsoft on designing new Windows icons](https://medium.com/microsoft-design/iconic-icons-designing-the-world-of-windows-5e70e25e5416)

✨ and,

[Tempo: Delightful interactions that change how you think about email](https://www.uxdetails.com/tempo)


Links of the week ending 28 February 2020

199 - 28 February 2020 (errors, interaction design and analytics)


Featured image of Google Street View Art

## Links of the week ending 6 December 2020

[Nao Tatsumi Illustration - Google Street View Art](http://naotatsumi.net/streetviewjourney.html)

[The Third Generation of Interfaces by Dzianis Pomazau](https://www.interfaces3.com/)  
[No user interface.](https://www.interfaces3.com/)  
[No apps.](https://www.interfaces3.com/)  
[Base on user’s circumstances.](https://www.interfaces3.com/)  
[Intelligent operating system.](https://www.interfaces3.com/)  
[Devices that can hear and see you.](https://www.interfaces3.com/)

[UX trends for 2020: looking at the big picture (a holistic analysis of UX Design as a discipline.)  Full report: The State of UX in 2020](https://trends.uxdesign.cc/)

[Tesla Cybertruck: industrial design & anti-styling. Industrial Design vs. Product Design in the era of the Cybertruck, Generative Design, the resurgence of Brutalism and Instagram.](https://uxdesign.cc/industrial-design-anti-styling-b8110d69c2ef)

[13 Design Patterns for Autocomplete Suggestions (27% Get it Wrong)](https://baymard.com/blog/autocomplete-design)

[New Skeuomorphism! What’s the next UI design trend?](https://uxdesign.cc/whats-the-next-ui-design-trend-75c8b61f5c7c)

✨ and,

[A fun and colorful explanation of how DNS works](https://howdns.works/)


187 - 6 December 2019 (ui, ux and 2020 trends)


Featured image of 2DOOM - 2D demake and tribute of the most famous FPS DOOM

## Links of the week ending 7 June 2019

[2DOOM - 2D demake and tribute of the most famous FPS DOOM](https://2doom.itch.io/)

[Playdate handheld gaming system from Panic. It’s yellow. It fits in your pocket. Plus it has a crank.](https://play.date/)

[“Hanzi is more than type to us”: KauKau’s design output is multicultural and multilingual](https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/kaukau-graphic-design-280519)

[Google Fonts is adding font-display](https://www.zachleat.com/web/google-fonts-display/)

✨ and,

[EnFont Terrible](https://enfont-terrible.glitch.me/)


160 - 7 June 2019 (2doom, enfont and play.date)


Image of HaikuJAM

## Links of the week ending 6 April 2018

[Meet the all new HaikuJAM app](http://sendy.haikujam.com/l/GnTa76333A1k5QsX8924zC8G9A/dN4a5nNUrIRl6d8qFBcUNA/lSjDNiBAkkLPikEhY763qqHg)

[Syd Mead, the graphic and conceptual futurist artist best known for his creations on Blade Runner, Aliens and Tron](https://www.flickr.com/photos/x-ray_delta_one/sets/72157622906191929/)

[Every new feature added to JavaScript over the past three years with examples (16 minute read)](https://medium.freecodecamp.org/d52fa3b5a70e)

[How Google designs with curiosity](https://www.invisionapp.com/enterprise/design-genome)

✨ and,

[What is the best ergonomic mouse for macOS?](https://www.designernews.co/stories/92916-what-is-the-best-ergonomic-mouse-for-macos)

99 - 6 April 2018 (haiku, google, curiosity and design)


Featured image of Sgt. Pepper Album Sketch from John Lennon

## Links of the week ending 5 May 2017

[This is How Google will Collapse](https://medium.com/startup-grind/how-google-collapsed-b6ffa82198ee)

[4 1/4 by 4 1/4 inch Sgt. Pepper Album Sketch from John Lennon himself](http://www.julienslive.com/view-auctions/catalog/id/216/lot/89524/)

[Box Breathing; breathe in sync with this](http://quietkit.com/box-breathing/)

[CSS Poly Fluid Sizing using calc(), vw, breakpoints and linear equations - or the SASS function for fluid typography](https://medium.com/@jakobud/css-polyfluidsizing-using-calc-vw-breakpoints-and-linear-equations-8e15505d21ab)

[Best Practices for Buttons; the User Experience of colors](https://uxplanet.org/best-practices-for-buttons-b7048479d440)

✨ and,

[Find someone who loves you as much as Diego Luna loves Jabba the Hutt](http://lunadiego.tumblr.com/post/154671685673/find-someone-who-loves-you-as-much-as-diego-luna)