Popular design news of the week: October 7, 2019 – October 13, 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.

MacOS Catalina: 5 Things Web Developers & Designers Should Know

Improve your CSS with these 5 Principles

8 Things to Stop Doing with Typography (Right Now!)

Google’s Free Coding Tool for Beginners Lands on Desktop

Natural Color Palettes from Random Beautiful Images

CSS Grid Garden

When Brand Identity Goes Wrong: 5 Embarrassing Mistakes

CSS Link with Rainbow Underline

Figma Introduces Smart Animate and Advanced Transitions

Spacing, Grids and Layouts

Dear Designer, It’s Time to Rediscover your Whiteboard

Feeling Sassy Again

Revenge of the Small Business Website

Moz Launches Domain Analysis, Free Tool for SEO Metrics

Optimizing Images for the Web – An In-depth Guide

Disney is Using AI to Correct Gender Bias in its Movies

Building Websites with the Future in Mind

Your Brand Needs a Social Media Design System-here’s How to Create One

Product Personas are a Waste of Time

UX Frameworks – Make Sense of Mess and Get that Spark, Faster

How to Increase Adoption of Branding Guidelines

The Obvious UI is Often the Best UI

How to Think like a Programmer

Dear Ueno: What’s your Design Process Like?

The 3 Stages of Empathy

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

WDD Staff

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