Popular design news of the week: December 12, 2016 — December 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.
18 Web Design Trends for 2017
7 Step Visual Web Design Process
Dark Side of UI: When Dark is Good for Users
How an Icon Ruined my Life
Culrs — A Simple, Smart Approach to Choose Color Palletes
20 Awesome Font Pairing Tools for Designers
Design Trend: Photos that Come Alive
16 Reasons to Pay for Better Designers
Web Design Isn’t More Boring, Isn’t Losing it’s Soul
If Designers Talked Dirty, this is What They Would Say
The 6 Best New UX Tools of 2016
Gitscout — A Beautiful Github Issues Experience for MacOS
Codevember: Amazing JS Experiment
What Next for CSS Grid Layout?
Ikea Renames its Products After Common Google Searches in New Ad
Medium’s Best Design Writing of 2016
Text Emoticon Generator
Uber is Fixing a Major UX Issue, Using your Favorite Color
Death to JIRA
The Best and Worst Branding of 2016
Introduction to the 8‑Point Grid System
Email Clients the Jessica Hische Way
You’re Design Thinking Too Much
Strobe Illusion — You are About to Hallucinate
Inside IBM Studios
Want more? No problem! Keep track of top design news from around the web with Webdesigner News.
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