I’m taking the next two weeks off so this will be the last issue for the year. Thanks for reading, happy holidays and see you next year!
– Kenny
Articles
The Best User Experience Design Links of 2017
I looked at the stats for the past 50 UX Design Weekly issues and filtered out the best of the best.
Tips and tricks for tongue-tied designers
A practical and actionable guide to talking about your designs.
The Power of a Trained Mind
What does it take to be a successful designer?
9 ½ Plausible and/or Absurd UX Industry Predictions for 2018
A lot of these trend articles to end the year. If that’s your thing, check out 18 Designers Predict UI/UX Trends for 2018 and Fjord Trends 2018.
Looking to Horizon: Why We Built A Design System
Why Twitter created their design system.
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Tools and Resources
iOS 11 iPhone GUI
Facebook Design added Origami, Sketch, and Photoshop templates of GUI elements found in the public release of iOS 11.
Sketch Elements UI Kit
A free iOS UI kit, brought to you by Sketch
Sketch 101 Email Course
A free 7-day email course to learn Sketch.
Sneak peek: A new InVision
Coming in 2018, an update that makes InVision faster with a new unified design and a place to organize all your project-related documents.
Haiku
Haiku is an app for creating interactive, animated UI components built for production.
Framer – Design Everything. Better.
Framer is launching advanced path editing, boolean operations, adaptive layouts, and much more.
UX Portfolio
Mel Smith
Mel is a Product Designer at DroneDeploy.
Last But Not Least
4 Design Principles My Landlord Doesn’t Understand, Apparently
Learn from their mistakes to actually get the results you intend from your communcations.
“Designing without real content or data is not problem-solving; it’s fantasizing.”
— Kim Goodwin
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