Popular design news of the week: April 10, 2017 — April 16, 2017
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.
Design Concept: MacBook Pro 2018

The Latest Photography Trends in Web Design

Why Gradients are the New Colors

3 Ways to Improve your Visual Design Skills

Yes, React is Taking Over Front-end Development. The Question is Why…

7 UX/Usability Tools to Try in 2017

How Much will your Website Cost?

Google Updates Material Design and Adds Color Tool

Google’s AI Doodle Bot will Transform your Crude Drawings into Glorious Clip Art

How to Redesign an Airline

Diverse UI 2.0 — Free Diverse User Images Now with Sketch Plugin

With Sketch 43, Design is Code & Code is Design

Government Logos from Best to Worst, Ranked by Roman Mars

How to Design 404 Pages with Awesome UX

Glitch — The Community Where You’ll Build the App of your Dreams

UI Components for Building Amazon /Yelp-like Search

Semantic UI

Burst — Free Photography for Entrepreneurs Powered by Shopify

Google Now Lets You Submit URLs for Indexing Straight from Search

Illustrator, the 30-year-old Pro Design Tool, Gains the Ability to Crop Images

Why ‘Mobile First’ May Already Be Outdated

The Complete Guide to the Product Design Process

A Comprehensive Guide to E‑Commerce Platforms

A Designer’s Guide to Working in Tech

The Global State of the Internet in April 2017

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