Popular design news of the week: May 7, 2018 – May 13, 2018

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.

Why You Should Never Use Pure Black for Text or Backgrounds

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Curtains.js – Easily Animate Images

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Meet Hadron. A Tool that Makes Design with Code Easy and Visual

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The Deadly Trap in User Interface Design & How to Solve it

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Solid Tips for Creating a Design Portfolio

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Toddler Creates New Beer Label Design

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The Next Big Thing in Type

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25 Free Fonts to Enhance your Next Design Work

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Charity Website: A UX Case Study

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Site Design: Tribute to Akira

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Reddit’s Designers and Users Aren’t Seeing Eye-to-eye Over Site’s New Look

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Eden – UX Design Process

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YouTube Music is Testing a New Player UI and Queue Functionality

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How to Build a Responsive Type Scale with Bootstrap

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I/O 2018: Our Definitive Guide to Design

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CSS Custom Properties and Accesibility

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Developing the Star Wars Opening Crawl in HTML/CSS

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What Every Product Leader Should do in their First 60 Days on the Job

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Google Drive Gets a New Interface to Match Redesigned Gmail

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Google’s Material Design Guidelines Have been Updated

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Intro to CSS – Free 20-part Course

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Front-End Tooling Survey 2018 – Results!

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The History of Iron Man’s Original HUD

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Don’t Be a Rockstar & Other Pro-Tips for New UX Designers

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User Onboarding: How to Get the Little Things Right

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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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