Popular design news of the week: May 23, 2016 — May 292016

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May 29, 2016
Popular design news of the week: May 23, 2016 - May 29, 2016.

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the most popular designer news that we curated from the past week. Note that this is only a very small selection of the links that were posted, so don’t miss out and subscribe to our newsletter and follow the site daily for all the news.

24 Clever 404 Error Page Designs

Walt Disney’s 16 Unconventional Rules for Winning Clients

Simple CSS Agree Button

3 Secrets Behind the Best Websites in the World

It’s Time to Bring Some Creativity Back to Web Design

Picking a Color for your Brand

Site Design: Pleasure to Burn

What to A/​B Test When Building your Website

Google Aims to Kill Passwords by the End of this Year

The Start-to-Finish Designer

Let’s Reverse Engineer the Instagram Design Brief

The 100 Best Free Fonts for Designers

Tachyon: Design New UI Components Without Writing CSS

Bideo.js – Easy Background Videos in HTML5

How UX Designers Think and Work

Never Use Papyrus (AKA the New Comic Sans), Plus Alternatives

Infographic: Star Wars, a New Hope

New French Law Makes it Illegal to Email Employees After Work Hours

Why We Need the Humanities in Tech

OnTheGrid — Designer Curated City Guides

Stop Trying to Be Somebody

The Principles of UX Choreography

Building a Visual Language

Facebook Begins Tracking Non-users Around the Internet

Solving a Century-Old Typographical Mystery

Want more? No problem! Keep track of top design news from around the web with Webdesigner News.

Cameron Chapman

Cameron Chapman is a freelance writer and designer from New England. You can visit her site or follow her on Twitter.

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