Popular Design News of the Week: September 28, 2020 – October 4, 2020
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.
6 Great Open Source SVG Icon Libraries You Should Check Out Now

Codedamn — Teach Yourself to Code

Zoop — Unlimited Serverless Hosting

Sitemaps: A Complete Guide

Shoelace 2.0: A Forward-thinking Library of Web Components

How to Become a UX Designer — No Matter What You Studied at Uni

Buttons that Spark Joy

How to Solve any Design Problem by Understanding its Roots

Ooooops I Guess We’re* Full-Stack Developers Now

Blue People Illustrations, or How to Kill a Brand

How to Pick More Beautiful Colors for your Data Visualizations

Stop Doing Design System Projects

Please Don’t do That: 4 Things to Ask Clients to Avoid

What’s Driving so Many Car Brands to Redesign their Identity?

How to Prepare Sites for 2020 Holiday Shopping

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Show Off your Design Skills by Crafting Eye-Catching iOS 14 Layout Themes

How to Create Onboard and Login Screens for a Dating App Template in Figma

Bidirectional Scrolling: What’s not to Like?

Basic Guidelines to Product Sketching

The Era of UI Unification

The Typography of Star Trek: The Motion Picture

The Guide to UX Research

In Search of Illustration: Design Process for Illustration Set

Looking at an Online School Through a Web Designer’s Eyes

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