Popular design news of the week: September 12, 2016 — September 18, 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.
The Beauty of Ultra-Minimal Web Design

It’s Time We Think Beyond Flat Design

75 of the Smartest Resources for Web Designers

The Job of a Web Designer is Changing (and That’s Good News)

Six Web Layout Myths Busted (bring More Art to Web Layouts)

Hamburger Menus and Hidden Navigation Damage UX

A Nerd’s Guide to Color on the Web

Sketch Vs. Adobe XD Vs. Figma

The Colors Used by the Ten Most Popular Sites

The Future of Design According to 7 Web Visionaries

Vue: A Simple, Powerful Library for Modern Web UI

Site Design: Revealapp.com

IBM is Gearing up to Become the World’s Largest and Most Sophisticated Design Company

The Font Wall: I Love Typography

Slack Beta: A Faster and Nicer Slack Built on Electron

Variable Fonts, a New Kind of Font for Flexible Design

Polr 2.0.0, an Open Source URL Shortening Platform, has been Released

Unsend.it: Un-send or Edit any SMS Text Message After You Sent it

Site Redesign: Whatsapp.com

Vimeo Business: Elevate your Video Marketing from Start to Finish

Adobe’s Cheeky New Clothing Line Celebrates Some of the Worst Stock Photos Ever

Evernote is Moving all its Data, Machine Learning to Google Cloud

App Tools: Curated List of the Best Tools in the Mobile App Ecosystem

The State of the Octoverse 2016

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