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Design & UX
Serious products don’t have to be serious
At TransferWise, we have recently launched instant transfers, allowing you to send money from Europe to the UK in seconds, not days. A big step towards our mission of getting money moving instantly all over the world. The way we see it, if you’re able to send your friend a cat video in seconds, you should be able to send them money just as quickly.
uxdesign.cc
How to design mobile app experiences for the visually impaired
An estimated 285 million people worldwide are visually impaired; 39 million are blind and 246 million have low vision. If you’re a member of a digital product team hoping to build for the widest range of abilities, your team must ensure that visually impaired users can successfully utilize your products.
invisionapp.com
Review Of Popular Interface Design Trends In 2017
ere we’ve gathered the collection of trends which won the big place in web and mobile interfaces of 2017 supporting most of them by designs from Tubik team.
tubikstudio.com
Development
The unlikely history of the #100DaysOfCode Challenge, and why you should try it for 2018
So how did Alex transform from a lone developer who wanted to improve his coding skills into the leader of a global movement involving thousands of developers?
freecodecamp.org
Resources
7 simple calculations every freelancer should make
Self-employment can feel like a constant balance between art and science. Flexible creative thinking and a steady flow of fresh ideas must be counterbalanced with the pragmatism necessary to run one’s own business — especially when it comes to the financials. Fortunately, you don’t need to be a professional accountant (or even a naturally-inclined mathlete) to turn your raw business data into actionable takeaways that can improve your financial stability in the future.
invisionapp.com
Workflow & Strategy
A Designer’s Guide to Getting Shit Done
I’m not a big fan of multitasking at all and much prefer the concepts of deep work — the ability to focus on a piece of cognitively-demanding piece of work without distraction. I think it’s a skill based on two important factors: your ability to work on a certain task for hours on end without being distracted; and your time-given opportunity to do so.
muz.li
How to Run a Really Good Retrospective
Everyone should do retrospectives — not just agile software teams. If they have a reputation at all, it’s not for being very exciting. Not many people think: You know what? I freaking love retro! It’s just a meeting, right? Wrong! Why? Because great retros make great teams.
builttoadapt.io
Inspiration
Let’s bury the hustle
I love Gary Vaynerchuk dearly. So much of his message about patience and perseverance is completely in line with how I view the world. But I can’t take any more odes to “the hustle”. Like most banners, it either dies in obscurity or lives long enough to become perverted.
signalvnoise.com
11 most important things I learned in 2017
I would love to share with you my most important learnings for this past year. Every time some of these things happened to me I was angry or disappointed. But now as I have reflected on them and wrote an article about it, I feel like I learned a lot. And it gives a sense of satisfaction.
prototypr.io