Reading and Dribbbling from Wingify Design— June Edition 2017

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Jul 21, 2017 · 4 min read

1. On Design Process

Articles we read about design thinking, methodologies & processes.

We hosted Invision’s Design Disruptors Screening 👇

DESIGN DISRUPTORS reveals a never-before-seen perspective on the design approaches of 15+ industry-shaking companies, and how they’re using the power of design to disrupt billion dollar industries. You book your screening here:

MixPanel’s style guide 👇

We took inspiration from MixPanel and learning how to make better style guides

ROI of Design: The business impact of InVision 👇

The best companies in the world are design-led. InVision asked their customers how InVision Enterprise helps them create amazing products and experiences. Here’s the full report:

Inclusive Design Principles 👇

These Inclusive Design Principles are about putting people first. It’s about designing for the needs of people with permanent, temporary, situational, or changing disabilities — all of us really

Top UX Books: 10 Essential, Non-Traditional Reads 👇

These books offers a fascinating window into interesting, alternative methods to problem-solving. Most of all, it will challenge and inspire you, help you “think outside the box,” and push you to learn from other crafts and industries.

Essential books on type design recommended by Type professors 👇

A reading list compiled from various recommendations of professors of type design in various universities. Excellent list to begin the journey to become a typophile

Article on why Figma is better than Sketch👇

In short, it says, Figma is like Sketch in the browser with real-time collaboration. Read the whole article here:

2. On Tool Tricks & Tips / Design Resources

Some good resources to improve your design workflow

How to collapse all the ArtBoards in sketch 👇

‘Collapse Artboards and Groups’ for Sketch App

Little Ipsum: Text generator 👇

A latin text generator for OS X and Mac OS.

Cool Color 🌈 Picker tool👇

Simple color picker everyone.

Alternative software for Sketch for Windows👇

Design stronger identities with bespoke fonts👇

Prototypo will let anyone design an entire font system all at once. Check the demo video here:

Use Prototypo here 👉

3. Inspiration / Eye Candy

Finally, as designers we couldn’t help but drool over these soul-quenching animations & visual designs. Check them out.

😍 Waze Carpool’s cute landing page 👇

Algorithm designs seven million different jars of Nutella 👇

The algorithm pulled from a database of dozens of patterns and colours to create seven million different versions of Nutella’s graphic identity, which have been splashed across the front of jars in Italy.

Lovely landing page by Intercom👇

Intercom on Onboarding features nine chapters of the most valuable lessons they’ve learned onboarding tens of thousands of customers:

4. What we Dribbbled 🏀

With links to Shots 🔗

If you’re also reading and think might be something interesting, feel free to share in comments. We’d love know!

You can find our design team on Dribbble 🏀 👉 Wingify On Dribbble

Also, if you’re looking for a design job, we’re hiring on 💼 👉 Wingify/Careers 👨‍💻 👩‍💻

— 🖌 Compiled by 🤓 Sankalp Sinha

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