Popular design news of the week: August 3, 2015 – August 9, 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.

Windows 10 Uses your Bandwidth to Send Other People Updates

Stop it!

Logo Specification, the “modern” Process

The Perfect ux/UI Design Tool – 13 Things Designers Needs Most

Apple Launches Redesigned Website, Kills old Apple Store

Safari vs. Chrome: Power Consumption

How Shake Shack Made a 70-Year-old Font hot Again

Design Inspiration: What’s on your Phone’s Home Screen?

Hack your Productivity with these 9 Gmail Tips

The Tiny new Website that Could Give LinkedIn a run for its Money

Prototyping: Why you Should Start Designing Websites in the Browser

Export kit – Convert your PSD into Responsive HTML, CSS, WordPress etc…

This is What it’s like to be a Color Blind Designer

See What Google Could’ve Looked like in the 80’s

Freelance vs in-house

Windows 10 is Spying on Almost Everything you do

Why CG Sucks (Except it Doesn’t)

The Winners from National Geographic’s Traveler Photo Contest

Programming Excuses

Microsoft’s Homepage Circa 1994

The new Devil’s Dictionary

Wow: This Algorithm can Separate Reflections from Photographs

YouTube’s Web Video Player Just Received a Sleek Transparent Update

The Modern Internet Sucks: Bring Back Geocities

First Time User Experiences

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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.