Designer News — Most Popular Stories of 2014

I collected a top of the most popular stories that were published on Designer News this year.

Just one story before we start — in May this year Massimo Vignelli passed away. Just before it happened, it was already publically known that he is very ill and Marc Edwards took on himself to prepare a letter with words DN-members would like to say to Massimo.

Thanks you Marc. Thanks you Massimo. Designer News community is amazing.

198 MobileDN 1.2 update — Full DN integration for iOS

177 How to Photoshop (i.imgur.com)

156 R.I.P Massimo Vignelli

149 Designer News (♥) Statistics (dashinsky.com)

148 Awesome password animation if you click on the password field (dash.readme.io)

146 I’m leaving LayerVault.

145 Aaron Draplin Takes On a Logo Design Challenge (vimeo.com)

135 Sneak peek of new tool for designing complex interactions and animations

130 Google Design (google.com)

129 Sketch 3.0 (bohemiancoding.com)

128 Show DN: Mobile DN your free iOS companion for Designer News (mobiledn.alasdairmonk.com)

127 AMA: I’m Julie Zhuo director of product design @ Facebook

122 MacOS ‘Get Info’ Design (behance.net)

122 AMA: Jessica Hische

121 How I Lost My $50000 Twitter Username by Naoki Hiroshima (medium.com)

117 Original Designs by Samsung (samsungdesign.tumblr.com)

117 #663399 will officially be named ‘rebeccapurple’ in CSS 4 (lists.w3.org)

116 Site Design: Stripe Checkout (stripe.com)

116 Shine. Redefined. — Bohemian Coding (bohemiancoding.com)

115 I wanted to work at Apple really bad and now not so much. Walking out on my dream job. (medium.com)

114 Tim Cook Speaks Up — Op-ed (businessweek.com)

113 AMA: I’m Frank Chimero — a designer writer speaker and picturemaker person. I just started a design studio named Another. Etc etc etc.

111 Google acquhires this designer cofounder’s company but the designer was left out of the deal. (secret.ly)

110 Comic Sans meet Comic Neue (comicneue.com)

109 Name #663399 “beccapurple” in CSS4 Color (discourse.specifiction.org)

107 Clever interaction on Basecamp’s Sign Up page

107 A simple guide to responsive design. (adamkaplan.me)

105 Announcing the Designer News API

103 Burger King’s wi-fi logo is also a burger (i.imgur.com)

102 Vertical align anything with just 3 lines of CSS (zerosixthree.se)

100 Sketch *really* is best (sketchreallyisbest.tumblr.com)

98 Results: DN Survey of Design Salaries 2014

98 Right-click this company’s logo… (playframework.com)

98 The Boring Designer (blog.capwatkins.com)

98 Squarespace Seven (squarespace.com)

97 Young Jerks Doesn’t Work for Free

97 Life saver CSS code; moses > #sea {; .leo { transform: matrix(010101); }

96 Tobias Frere-Jones is suing Jonathan Hoefler for being denied a 50% stake in their business. (iapps.courts.state.ny.us)

96 Dear Adobe…

96 Facebook introduces new iPhone app Paper (facebook.com)

96 Sneak Peek at Sketch 3.0 (is.gd)

95 Frank Chimero’s New Site (frankchimero.com)

93 Design+Code Giveaway

92 Two big announcements from 37 Signals (37signals.com)

92 Square icon cost $1.99 so he asked for a discount (i.imgur.com)

92 After 4 years in the making Serif’s Affinity Designer has launched! (affinity.serif.com)

92 Patatap (patatap.com)

91 Worst scroll jacking site ever — by Microsoft (microsoft.com)

90 FiftyThree the creators of the sketching app Paper are asking that Facebook change the name of its app Paper (news.fiftythree.com)

90 Hello DN: Today’s my first day here at LayerVault

90 Show DN: Joel Califa is Sad — my new portfolio. (joelcalifa.com)

90 To Massimo Vignelli from Designer News

89 iOS 7 GUI templates will ship inside of Sketch 3 (teehanlax.com)

88 Show DN: Meet the new Geisha

88 Dead pixel (i.imgur.com)

88 Framer 3 is out (framerjs.com)

87 Uilang — a minimal ui-focused programming language for web designers (uilang.com)

85 Sketch is best (sketchisbest.tumblr.com)

84 So Yeah We Tried Slack — Sandwich Video (youtube.com)

83 I want to intern at Airbnb (kathylovesairbnb.kythe.co)

83 Designer Duds (mokriya.quora.com)

83 CMD+SPACE: Instant design portfolios via dribbble (cmdspace.com)

83 Listen everyone knows about Apple’s keynote. Please think twice and check recent stories before posting something related. Let’s try to keep DN tidy.

82 Site Design: Virgin America (static.virginamerica.com)

82 PhotoSwipe — JavaScript Image Gallery no dependencies (photoswipe.com)

81 Show DN: Upgraded Profile Pages

81 Mailbox for Mac is Coming! (mailboxapp.com)

81 A website dedicated to a website deconstructions. New post every week you’re in charge.

81 Sketch 3.1 (bohemiancoding.com)

80 Dustin Curtis — Facebook’s predicament (dcurt.is)

80 Inbox by Gmail — The inbox that works for you (googleblog.blogspot.com)

80 CSS is 20 years old today! (w3.org)

79 #663399Becca What is that?

79 Best use of app store screenshots ever (itunes.apple.com)

78 Morphing Buttons Concept on Codrops (tympanus.net)

78 Design+Code: Learn iOS Design and Xcode (designcode.io)

77 A New Car UI: How touch screen controls in cars should really work (matthaeuskrenn.com)

76 Keynote does Material Design (vimeo.com)

76 Apple unveils CarPlay: iOS in the Car (apple.com)

76 Atom — A hackable text editor for the 21st Century by GitHub (atom.io)

76 Nate has his website tested (peek.usertesting.com)

75 Stop trashing clients on DN. Educate instead.

75 Design with Sketch (medium.com)

75 I’m not happy.

75 Blend if (bjango.com)

75 How a password changed my life (medium.com)

74 Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear. (hemingwayapp.com)

74 The unspoken D word that eats you from the inside (A designer’s experience of depression) (greig.cc)

74 iOS 8 — Mission Control by Bill Labus (dribbble.com)

74 New DuckDuckGo design live (duckduckgo.com)

74 Show DN: Bounce.js — A tool for generating tasty CSS3 animations (bouncejs.com)

73 7 Graphic Design Documentary You Should Be Watching

73 Dropbox — New Prices and Space (9.99 / 1 TB) (dropbox.com)

73 Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (zachholman.com)

73 Apple — Thirty Years of Mac (apple.com)

72 Responsive Logos (responsivelogos.co.uk)

72 You Spoke We Listened: Introducing the LayerVault Starter Plan

72 Jony Ive gives rare remarkable interview (time.com)

72 Interested in a weekly Sketch screencast?

72 Show DN: DN Paper — a customizable Designer News client for iPad and iPhone (itunes.apple.com)