9 Visual Design Links from January 2016

As a product designer at Pivotal Labs, I’ve been curating a list of links to inspire visual design. Here are nine of my favorite links that I found interesting last month.

Enjoy!

Inspiration

Site up: A great gallery when in need of some visual inspiration.

http://www.site.uplabs.io

Tabs & Navigation showcase: Great site to look for specific ui inspiration (all material design).

http://www.materialup.com/collections/tab-and-navigation-options

Material design animations: Summary of some of the best material animations for 2015

https://stories.uplabs.io/the-material-design-countdown-for-2015-7c9e4d4e88fb#.a9zu8q5zq

Tools + Resources

Device assets: Facebook released a bunch of Device files for Sketch and plan to continue updating in the coming months

http://facebook.github.io/design/devices

Project Comet update: Progress on Adobe’s new design tool

https://medium.com/@ashorten/update-on-project-comet-where-we-are-and-what-s-to-come-889aa3ea08d2#.phcwl1c8j

Adobe Portfolio: New tool for designers to create portfolio sites. Sync’s with Behance, and has some awesome starter layouts.

https://www.myportfolio.com/

Reading

Introspective on the creator of Sketch: An interview with the creator of Sketch, talking about Adobe’s Comet

https://medium.com/habit-of-introspection/the-past-present-and-future-of-sketch-d5237879b7af#.gouab7bri

Principles of UI animation: Thorough article of how UI animation is evolving, what patterns are emerging, and what “UX Choreography” means.

https://medium.com/@adaptivepath/jedi-principles-of-ui-animation-2b88423b1dac#.o4n22u9jd

2016 in Design: A summary of some major design milestones in 2015

https://medium.com/hh-design/a-look-back-at-2016-6b643a0d123a#.ycql0afpf