Popular design news of the week: April 9, 2018 — April 152018

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April 15, 2018
Popular design news of the week: April 9, 2018 - April 15, 2018.

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.

Flowmagic — Simple Time Tracking

Flexible Grid — Framework (Scss/​Sass/​Css/​Html)

A New JPEG Format

Designers Just Fixed Facebook. Your Move, Zuckerberg

Sass Starter for Simple Typography

Start your Designs with a Concept

Gmail Brand New Redesign Leaked

Brutalism Design is the Bad Influence We all Need

Fluent Design System

YouTube and Facebook are Losing Creators to Blockchain-Powered Rivals

Stop Calling these Dark Design Patterns or Dark UX. These are Simply Asshole Designs.

Should You Use Material Design?

New to Email Coding? Here’s Where to Start.

Be a Deletist — Delete your Data Footprint, Go Private and Make More Time

Sketch.The.Ripper — Rip and Share .sketch Files on any OS

Fontisto

The Value of UX Strategy

Craft CMS 3.0 Released & Commerce 2.0 Beta

Artboard Studio — The First App Mainly Focused on Mockups

What You Didn’t Know About the Color Red

Adrian Frutiger Logos, 1960s-70s

Design System Repo

Why Transparent, Open Design Leads to Happier Clients

Helvetica is Now an Encryption Device

The Rise of Green UX

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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