Popular design news of the week: February 18, 2019 — February 24, 2019
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.
Visualize a Website

How I Got Banned for Life from AirBnB

Why Parallax Scrolling Needs to Die

I Redesigned the Website Startmunich.de — The Conversion Rate Went up by 1.400%

What Defines Good UI Design?

5 Alternatives to Material Design

Spoofing Google Search Results

To Grid or to Flex?

Amino: Live CSS Editor for Chrome

First .dev Domains Go Live

Site Design: Peak

A Few Tips for Crafting your URLs for Improved SEO and UX

I Built a Physical Sketch Panel

I Made a Tool to Customise & Generate Common SVG Icons

Actiondesk: Workflow Automation

Web Usability: Importance of Fold in Web Design

Don’t Burn my Eyes. Mysterious Experiences. Dark Mode UI

The 5 Principles of Good Experience Design

A Designer’s Little Helpers

Browser-specific Hacks for Frontend Developers

The First Five Years: How to Stop Feeling like a Failure

Building the Wrong Product — 9 Antipatterns You Should Avoid

An Illustrated Avatar Collection for Developers and Designers

Museum of Failure

Frontiers of Design

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