Popular design news of the week: February 18, 2019 – February 24, 2019

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.

Visualize a Website

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How I Got Banned for Life from AirBnB

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Why Parallax Scrolling Needs to Die

I Redesigned the Website Startmunich.de – The Conversion Rate Went up by 1.400%

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What Defines Good UI Design?

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5 Alternatives to Material Design

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Spoofing Google Search Results

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To Grid or to Flex?

Amino: Live CSS Editor for Chrome

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First .dev Domains Go Live

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Site Design: Peak

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A Few Tips for Crafting your URLs for Improved SEO and UX

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I Built a Physical Sketch Panel

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I Made a Tool to Customise & Generate Common SVG Icons

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Actiondesk: Workflow Automation

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Web Usability: Importance of Fold in Web Design

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Don’t Burn my Eyes. Mysterious Experiences. Dark Mode UI

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The 5 Principles of Good Experience Design

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A Designer’s Little Helpers

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Browser-specific Hacks for Frontend Developers

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The First Five Years: How to Stop Feeling like a Failure

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Building the Wrong Product — 9 Antipatterns You Should Avoid

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An Illustrated Avatar Collection for Developers and Designers

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Museum of Failure

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Frontiers of Design

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Want more? No problem! Keep track of top design news from around the web with Webdesigner News.

Cameron Chapman

Cameron Chapman

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

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