Popular design news of the week: December 18, 2017 – December 24, 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.

Google Design’s Best of 2017

Material Design Components Challenge

Announcing UnDraw

What’s the Deal with Pantone’s Color of the Year?

The Basic Principles of Visual Design

18 Designers Predict UI/UX Trends for 2018

Free Christmas Icons

The 14 Most Important Interfaces of 2017

7 Unusual Fonts Created in 2017

Color Timesaver (UI Sketch): Choose Colors for your Layouts Fast

Site Design: 20 Most Important Inventions of all Time

AI Dominated 2017. Here’s What’s Coming Next

Salescamp – Grow Virally with a Super Simple Referral Widget

Google will Turn on Native Ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15

Ads of the Year 2017

We Can Teach Design Better

Brandie – Supercharge your Personal Brand

Profitable Tips for Landing Page Design

Affinity One Step Closer to Launching InDesign Killer

4 Design Principles my Landlord Doesn’t Understand, Apparently

9 Things Nobody Tells You About Going Freelance

I Tested 10+ Photoshop Alternatives to See How They Stack up

The Best and Worst Identities of 2017

Google Maps’s Moat

Design Principles: An Open Source Repository of Design Principles and Methods

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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.