Popular design news of the week: August 7, 2017 – August 13, 2017

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.

Best Practices for Using White Space in UI Design

SpeedFont: Extremely Simple CSS Font Embedding

UI Design: 10 Principles Learned from Painful Mistakes

World’s First Design Assistant

Lists: Real Content for all your Designs

Marketing Yourself as a Designer

Publii – Open Source CMS for Static Websites

Swarm 5.0: Remember Everywhere

Introducing DesignBetter.co

Blind: An Anonymous Community for Tech Professionals

BBC Starts Rolling Out New Digital-friendly Font

FontFace Ninja

Olly Moss on the New ‘Frozen’ Musical Poster (and Seven that Didn’t Make the Cut)

Apple Finally Joins Instagram

The Biggest UX Mistake in E-commerce

Gestalt Psychology and UX Design

Don’t Mistake Common UI Patterns for Best Practices

8 Common Portfolio Mistakes (and How to Fix Them)

Create VR Without Coding

A Complete Guide to Grid

Finding Fonts – A Guide

Gradients Generated from Photographs of Nature

Take Naps at Work; Apologize to no One

Designing for Emptiness

Pastel: Feedback for Web Designers

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Cameron Chapman

Cameron Chapman is a freelance writer and designer from New England. You can visit her site or follow her on Twitter.