Popular design news of the week: July 27, 2015 – August 2, 2015

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.

Unsplash.it – Beautiful Placeholders Using Images from Unsplash

Font Awesome 4.4 Launches 66 New Icons

10 Portfolio Design Tips Inspired by Webflow Designers

Welcome to 1984 (Windows 10)

Why Does Every Meme Use that Same Font?

What’s it Really like to Be a Graphic Designer?

MailHero – the All-in-one Gmail Extension

See Photoshop and Other Software as Humans

Beautiful Annual Report Designs

Why Everyone is a Designer… but Shouldn’t Design

Spatial Interfaces

I Hate Apple

How to Price a Logo Design (free Tools and Tips from the Pros)

The Turing Phone is the Craziest Device You’ll See this Year

If Designers Talked Dirty, this is What They’d Say (22 Pics)

Occupy Flash

Texter – a Website Where You Can Have Fun with Words

Websites, Please Stop Blocking Password Managers – It’s 2015

LinkedIn Co-founder Reluctantly Admits that its Design is Bad

How App Design Can Hurt App Development

Cube Navigation – Pixels Movie Story

Twitter’s Biggest Problem? Its Flawed Design

Stop Pushing the Web Forward

The Designer’s Guide to Gestalt Theory

How Copywriting Can Benefit from User Research

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.