
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/)


Links of The Week

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


Image of this year’s icon design trend

## Links of the week ending 13 November 2020

[Has this year’s icon design trend gone too far? The cognitive load is real](https://www.creativebloq.com/news/icon-design-trend)

[How app icons are fighting for our lower attention spans.](https://uxdesign.cc/the-cognitive-overload-happening-on-your-screen-right-now-deee2a913393)

[Text Recognition, Simplified. Extract text from graphics and digital documents in seconds.](https://textsniper.app/)

[Why Google’s new app logos are pretty (&) bad](https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/why-googles-new-app-icons-are-pretty-bad-10f1ec40ab04)

[The genius of Iranian graphic design](https://www.grapheine.com/en/graphic-design-en/graphic-design-in-iran-persian-heritage-and-modernity)

[Clever Typography Uses Negative Space To Illustrate the Meaning of the Word It Spells](https://mymodernmet.com/sander-flink-wordmarks/)

[KFC logo is unrecognisable with surprise new look](https://www.creativebloq.com/news/kfc-new-logo-movember)

[These are the UI/UX trends you need to keep an eye out for in 2021](https://uxmag.com/articles/these-are-the-ui-ux-trends-you-need-to-keep-an-eye-out-for-in-2021)

[AI logo generator could be the future – but is it a good one?](https://www.creativebloq.com/news/ai-logo-generator-zyro)

✨ and,

[Emoji before emoji? Hieroglyphic Broadsides](https://ilovetypography.com/2020/11/08/emoji-before-emoji-hieroglyphic-broadsides/)

Links of the week ending 13 November 2020

236 - 13 November 2020 (cognitive load, icons and logos)


Image of 5 main anti-trends in design

## Links of the week ending 24 Sept 2020

[The 5 main anti-trends in design](https://uxdesign.cc/the-5-main-anti-trends-in-design-e5629c1b217d)

[7 Graphic Design Trends That Will Dominate 2021 \[Infographic\]](https://venngage.com/blog/graphic-design-trends/)

[An attempt at understanding how the Gen-X uses WhatsApp — A UX Research Case Study](https://uxplanet.org/an-attempt-at-understanding-how-the-gen-x-uses-whatsapp-a-ux-research-case-study-f13e3961ba3b)

[Figma Low Code — a new way to tackle design hand-offs](https://uxdesign.cc/figma-low-code-a-new-way-to-tackle-design-hand-offs-a72cb109a455)

✨ and,

[Man Tracks Down People He Photographed in the Street 40 Years Ago to Recreate Their Pictures](https://mymodernmet.com/chris-porsz-reunion/) 📷

230 - 2 October 2020 (anti-design, graphic design, photography and icon sets)


Featured image of The Thing With Leading in CSS

## Links of the week ending 4 September 2020

[The Thing With Leading in CSS. The spacing between individual elements of a website and, in particular, the vertical spacing.](https://matthiasott.com/notes/the-thing-with-leading-in-css)

[The Black Panther: Black Community News Service. Typewrite, rubdown, and pasteup: 1960s photo-reproduction empowered Emory Douglas to make maximum impact with minimal time and expense.](https://fontsinuse.com/uses/35077/the-black-panther-typography)

✨ and,

[Heroicons; Beautiful hand-crafted SVG icons, by the makers of Tailwind CSS.](https://heroicons.com/)

Links of the week ending 4 September 2020

226 - 4 September 2020 (black panther typography, icons and leading)


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 the six lenses of video game UX

## Links of the week ending 20 September 2019

[How Video Games Inspire Great UX](https://jenson.org/games/)

[ICONSVG](https://iconsvg.xyz/)

✨ and,

[Hans Findling on his experimental and multidisciplinary approach to design](https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/hans-findling-graphic-design-120919)

Links of the week ending 20 September 2019

175 - 20 September 2019 (ionSVG and inspiration)


Animation of one most important UI animations of all time

## Links of the week ending 5 July 2019

[The 8 most important UI animations of all time](https://www.invisionapp.com/inside-design/the-8-most-important-ui-animations-of-all-time/)

[Emojicode is a full-blown programming language consisting of emojis.](https://www.emojicode.org/)

[How UX research will up your mobile app design game](https://www.invisionapp.com/inside-design/ux-research-mobile-app/)

[How to Design an App Icon: the 5 Aspects that Matter](https://tapptitude.com/blog/how-to-design-app-icon-5-aspects-matter/)

[How to Design a Great App Icon for App Store Optimization?](https://www.apptamin.com/blog/aso-app-icon-design/)

[Eye-Catching App Icon Design: How To](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2017/01/designing-better-app-icons/)

[App Icon Tester - Preview, test, resize and make App Icons for iOS](http://www.appsparky.com/)

✨ and,

[iOS Icon Gallery](https://www.iosicongallery.com/)


164 - 5 July 2019 (emojicode, ux research and icons)


Featured image of Illustration from Dave Arcade

## Links of the week ending 14 June 2019

[Illustrator Dave Arcade](https://www.behance.net/davearcade)

[Studio Moross on designing the Spice Girls tour visuals](https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/kate-moross-lee-lodge-jason-sherwood-tim-routledge-spice-girls-tour-graphic-design-040619)

[Reading Design is an online archive of critical writing about design.](https://www.readingdesign.org/)

✨ and,

[An oral history of the hamburger icon (from the people who were there)](https://www.invisionapp.com/inside-design/an-oral-history-of-the-hamburger-icon-from-the-people-who-were-there/)

161 - 14 June 2019 (hamburger icon and Illustration)


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)


Image of a 2017 Figma prototype flow

## Links of the week ending 10 November 2017

[What Tesla’s Model 3 UI Reveals About Its Vision for the Future](https://blog.figma.com/what-teslas-model-3-ui-reveals-about-its-vision-for-the-future-eb01a75ae979)

[Five differences between good & great designers hubbub](https://uxplanet.org/the-subtle-art-that-differentiates-good-designers-from-great-designers-1ad3557b4c4)

[50 top typography tutorials](http://www.creativebloq.com/graphic-design-tips/typography-tutorials-1232719)

[Design and code animations with Framer](https://designcode.io/framer-intro)

[Flexbox and Grids, your layout’s best friends](https://aerolab.co/blog/flexbox-grids/)

[Pixden’s new HUGE free icon library](https://orioniconlibrary.com/)

✨ and,

[IconBros’ 229+ free and continuously growing high quality icons](https://www.iconbros.com/)


Links of the week ending 10 November 2017

78 - 10 November 2017 (tesla, typography, flexbox and icons)


Image of Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails

## Links of the week ending 3 August 2017

[Trent Reznor, In Conversation](http://www.vulture.com/2017/07/trent-reznor-nine-inch-nails.html) / [NIN Live - Panorama 2017](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JujihaeDpQ0)

[Designing Adaptive Icons for Android O](https://medium.com/google-design/designing-adaptive-icons-515af294c783)

[CSS Grid Changes EVERYTHING (to watch) & MDN web docs link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kVeCqQCxlk)

[A Complete Guide to Grid and browser support data is from Caniuse](https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/)

[People Who Tried to Take Panorama Shots](http://www.sadanduseless.com/2017/07/panorama/)

[Use this exercise to solve any Product Design Challenge](https://medium.muz.li/a-super-simple-exercise-for-solving-almost-any-product-design-challenge-f9e6c0019d7d)

[Symu](https://symu.co/) - The easiest way to get feedback prototyping tool for web designers

✨ and,

[Making Websites Better through Accessibility](https://nystudio107.com/blog/making-websites-accessible-americans-with-disabilities-act-ada)


64 - 4 August 2017 (trent reznor, adaptive icons and web designers)


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 a Lithograph

## Links of the week ending 3 June 2017

[Design principle: Error & Forgiveness](https://uxplanet.org/design-principle-error-forgiveness-1495f7471113)

[Elvia Perrin - Printmaking works of Austin based artist. Original Etchings Lithographs & Monoprints](http://elviaperrin.com/). by [ElviaPerrin on Etsy](https://www.etsy.com/shop/ElviaPerrin)

[Applying systems thinking in product design](https://blog.intercom.com/applying-systems-thinking-in-product-design)

[MetaLimbs: Multiple Arms Interaction Metamorphism (2017)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKjAp0iZ7dc) - Youtube

[NomNom is the easiest way to search, organize and share all your customer feedback in one place.](https://nomnom.it/)

✨ and,

[Feather: Simply beautiful open source icons](https://feather.netlify.com/)


55 - 3 June 2017 (design principles, error forgiveness and icons)


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: Illustration to support the article of how the web became unreadable

## Links of the week ending 27 Oct 2016

[The absolute beginner’s guide to getting a job tech](https://generalassemb.ly/get/beginners-guide-to-tech-hackingui)

[10 awesome flat logos with depth](http://encide.com/2016/10/10-flat-logos-depth/)

[Facebook Design - giving back to the design community](https://medium.com/facebook-design/giving-back-to-the-design-community-2c0b4cbb091f?)

[Five fresh headline & body text pairings on Google Fonts](https://www.typewolf.com/blog/google-fonts-combinations)

✨ and,

[How the Web Became Unreadable](https://backchannel.com/how-the-web-became-unreadable-a781ddc711b6#.dc61kkqlh)

25 - 28 October 2016 (design, freebies and icons)


Featured Image: Skateboarding grafitti

## Links of the week ending 16 June 2016

[Easy Steps To Better Icon Design](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/05/easy-steps-to-better-logo-design/)

[Do Icons Need Labels?](https://uxdesign.cc/do-icons-need-labels-6cb4f4282c00#.dnef22mk2)

[Deal: Create fonts in seconds in Adobe Illustrator](http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2016/06/deal-create-fonts-in-seconds-in-adobe-illustrator/)

[The Developer’s UX Checklist](http://uxmag.com/articles/the-developer-s-ux-checklist)

✨ and,

[Striking Skateboarding Street Art Murals in Sao Paulo](http://www.fubiz.net/2016/06/02/striking-skateboarding-street-art-murals-in-sao-paulo/)