Popular Design News of the Week: January 25, 2021 – January 31, 2021
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.
Low-code for Designers

The Scary Future of Instagram

Green UI/UX Trends: Designing with Sustainability In Mind

Whitehouse.gov Chooses WordPress, Again

Firefox Just Walked Away from a Key Piece of the Open Web

Escaping the Roadmap Trap

Iconduck – 100k Free Open Source Icons

Top Dying Programming Languages in 2021

Frugal Web Browser — A Design Experiment

Laws of UX V2.0

Pika Colour Picker

It’s Time We Say Goodbye to Pixel Units

The Holy Grail Layout with CSS Grid

Gleek — Free Online Diagramming Tool for Developers

The Styled-components Happy Path

A Google Designer Takes Us Inside Search’s Mobile Redesign

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Simple HTML

Beau: No-code Customer Workflow Automation

Mona — Create a Beautiful Page to Sell your Skills

Why do You Need a UX Researcher on your Team?

Adee — Comprehensive Free Accessibility Testing Tool for Designers

Even the White House Logo Got a Makeover. See What Changed

Facet Image Editor

The Design Productivity Blueprint

How to Fix a Hacked WordPress Website

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