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April’s reading list


Here are the best links shared by the design team in April 2017:

  1. Joe Coleman: Sliding degrees of ‘hard sell’
  2. Mockuuups Studio & Sketch
  3. Reasons to conference 2017: Design, Code & Create
  4. Hamburger Menu Alternatives for Mobile Navigation
  5. Everyone is a designer. Get over it.
  6. Simple Icons
  7. On conference proposal rejections
  8. Implementing system fonts on Booking.com—A lesson learned.
  9. Painting with Code

Thank you to Ant, Barry, Carla, Richard and me for the links this month.


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