Popular design news of the week: May 1, 2017 – May 7, 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.

Eight Design Trends Taking Over 2017

8trends

How to not Suck at Design, a 5 Minute Guide for the Non-designer

suck

RAGrid.css

ragrid

Stunning Examples of White Space… that Aren’t White at all

whitespace

YouTube’s Redesign is Official, and There’s a Dark Mode

youtube

Introducing Sizzy – A Tool for Developing Responsive Websites Crazy-fast

sizzy

My List of Essential Tools and Apps for Design & Front-end Development

essential

The Web Page to Calm a Stressed Designer.

calm

Timber.io Redesign

timber

Making your Design Optically Perfect

perfect

Don’t Mess up your Grid like Medium

messup

CSS Grid in Production

production

FUSE — a Curated List of Websites, Art + Design, Videos, Articles & Music

fuse

Wireframes are Dead—why I Haven’t Used Wires in Over A year

wireframes

Why Writing is the Most Important Skill In design

writing

The Real Effects of Bad Web Design

baddesign

Dubai Introduces its own Font, Lauding Free Expression it Does not Permit

dubai

Monte: All in One Platform for Building Websites

monte

JIGGY: Build Modern Websites with your Existing Data

jiggy

Storyboarding Vs. Prototyping: When to Use Each

storyboarding

See all Colors and Fonts a Site Uses

colors

Atlassian Design Manual

atlassian

How to Find Freelance Design Work (updated)

freelance

Throwing Out the Brand Book: The Power of Unbranding

unbranding

Science Fiction Interfaces

scifi

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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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