Our favorite tweets of the week: June 9, 2014 — June 15, 2014

June 15, 2014

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the best tweets that we sent out this past week. Note that this is only a very small selection of the links that we tweeted about, so don’t miss out. To keep up to date with all the cool links, simply follow us @DesignerDepot Cool: World Cup teams illustrated with their national animals in sweepstake postcards http://bit.ly/1puXG2C http://ow.ly/i/5Uht1 Design Principles for Wireframing http://bit.ly/1hPSXpN via @onextrapixel How the Hermann Grid Illusion Affects What Users See http://bit.ly/1jkTJWR Spectacular faux movie posters from illustrator Jangojim http://bit.ly/1pRRKhQ via @itsnicethat New computer program aims to teach itself everything about anything http://bit.ly/1prapn2 outdatedbrowser.com/ — a tool that detects if an outdated browser is being used and advises to update RT @scottjehl: If you need to load CSS asynchronously, here’s a function for that http://bit.ly/1s7X8S7 The Anatomy of a $300,000 Kickstarter Campaign: A look at how @TryGhost was funded http://bit.ly/1oRGsdX via @imrogb @JohnONolan Blogging For Yourself Vs. Staff Blogging: Which Should You Choose? http://bit.ly/1kqa7VI @hongkiat Boba.js, a JavaScript library for Google Analytics http://boba.space150.com Nice tutorial: Create a Retro Footballer in Adobe Illustrator for the World Cup http://bit.ly/UvIB49 via @tutsplus Windows Phone is getting an incredibly cool feature that iOS and Android can’t match http://bit.ly/1jkA6hx PR firms agree to play by Wikipedia’s editing rules http://www.cnet.com/news/pr-firms-agree-to-play-by-wikipedias-editing-rules/ Why Tristan Walker wants to create the “Procter & Gamble for people of color” http://bit.ly/1kORBLj So, where shall you go this summer? Google’s flight search can now send you on random journeys http://bit.ly/1mHMFEQ /@engadget 30 Weeks: An Experimental New Design School, Backed By Google http://bit.ly/1pVOT9H via @FastCoDesign Awesome tutorial from @CreativeBloq: Create generative artwork in Flash http://bit.ly/UrnvnB What is eBay’s search strategy anyway? http://bit.ly/1jiufJD 11-year-old wins Google Doodle competition http://bit.ly/1kMOFPl Milq Wants to Help You Organize the Internet http://mashable.com/2014/06/08/milq/ @mashable Want more? No problem! Keep track of all our tweets by following us @DesignerDepot