HUI Weekly Roundup #174: React-SketchApp Design System, Best practices for buttons design, Build an audience when you don’t have yet
Curated on Thursday May 04, 2017 by Sagi Shrieber and David Tintner
Hey Hackers,
This week Sagi published a new article on Medium called
“How to start building an audience when you don’t have any audience yet” and it’s a super thorough piece with theory and practical action items. If you’ve ever wanted to start writing as a creative professional — you’d really want to read this. If you liked it, don’t forget to hit ❤️
Yours Truly,
Sagi & David
Founders, Hacking UI
Links coming at you in 3,2,1…
Product Design
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Online Master’s in Information Design and Strategy — a part-time program at Northwestern University
#EDUCATION #LEADERSHIP by Northwestern University
Thoughts about robots and UX
#BOTS by Yishay Cohen — Uxpedition
Confetti Sketch Plugin — create the confetti bg trend with your own icons
#SKETCH
InVision picks up TrackDuck to better integrate with Atlassian products
#INVISION by InVision
Finding the energy to work on your side hustle
#SIDE_PROJECTS by Startup Grind
User research when you can’t talk to your users
#UX_RESEARCH by A List Apart
Awesome tool keeps all your assets in the same place and the entire team updated — Use code: PS50-E91-A968 for $50 off
#TOOLS by Pics.io
Interface Lovers — Interviews with top notch designers
#INTERVIEWS by Interface Lovers
Product Illustration for people who don’t know anything about product illustration
#ILLUSTRATION by Shopify UX
Best practices for buttons design
#BUTTONS by Luca Longo
Iconinator — Sketch plugin to create iOS app icons
#SKETCH by Tsaraboulidis Agisilaos
Launchpad for Sketch: Publish websites directly from Sketch, no coding needed
#SKETCH by Anima App
Sketching a Design System with React-SketchApp
#SKETCH-REACT by Eder Rengifo
Runkeeper: A usability case study
#CASE_STUDY
Front End Development
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CSS custom properties and theming
#CSS by Chris Coyier
My favorite free resources for learning JavaScript
#JAVASCRIPT by Hackernoon
The ultimate SASS function for fluid typography on your website
#TYPOGRAPHY #CSS
An algorithm written entirely in JS, that recognises the font of any text in an image
#JAVASCRIPT #AI
Entrepreneurship
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How to start building an audience when you don’t have any audience yet
#AUDIENCE by Sagi Shrieber
This is how Google will collapse
#GOOGLE by Daniel Colin James
The Uncategorizables
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Box Breathing (the Navy SEAL breathing technique)
#MINDFULNESS by QuietKitApp
#hackinGIF of the week
Created by Noam Liss
In Case You Missed It
From our Side Projects group
Put up some free design resource in my last Dribbble post.
Feel free to use for yourself guys ✌️
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