"For Google Pay, we needed UX copy that extended from marketing through product, and across surfaces including mobile, web, and voice. Here’s how we created a content system to scale along with the design system." In this blog post, the author talks about how she and her team approached the task of streamlining content across products as similar to a design system. It's a very interesting (and 5-minute) read.

A list of 86 Sketch shortcuts you can use to move around and edit Sketch layers. Also comes with Sketch shortcuts desktop wallpaper downloads.

This is one of the best resources I've found on stakeholder interviews. Dan's guidance is practical. He explains the foundational questions he uses during interviews. He also shows you how to craft questions for each project based on the project's context.

This short article talks about how Trello can be used for user research. Trello can help you centralize information and make it easier to share across your team. Pretty cool. This is an approach I'm going to try in the future.

This is a great animated .gif of how to salvage a pie chart. ;)

Learn about hues, tints, tones, and shades.

Learn about Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary colors.

Pinterest shares their learnings and best practices they developed over the last year as they redesigned Pinterest to be more accessible for people who are blind and visually impaired.

“…a big misconception about feedback and the design/creative process: Somehow, many of us have tricked ourselves into thinking that being open to feedback and good at receiving it means that it shouldn’t phase us." Adam Connor talks about the part emotions can play when we receive feedback, and gives great advice on how to work with and through them in this Medium post.

A wiki deleveloped by Canva to help you learn everything a designer needs to know about colors along with color combinations.

This post contained some good ideas for creating flow for a user in design and good practical advice to designers.

This short post contrasts the difference between tool time and goal time. It includes a few suggestions on how to modify each in a design. I like the article because it is concise, and it helped me refine what I understood about tool time and goal time.

This is a well written article that gives you quick tips on choosing color and how it represents your website. They also go into about how you can apply color to your website so that it looks balanced. Good resource for the visual design!

During a project I was given a folder with a number of documents written in markdown. I'm not familar with how you read markdowns in text editors but this resource helps to put it in a more readable format.

Great tutorial page that shows you how you can progressively use CSS in a way to imporve your animations to feel more natural.

I learned from this article that there are 7 basic plot lines to telling a story and how they can be applied to a presentation. I found this to be really help because I find that these plot lines can also apply to how you talk about your work during an interview or even how you craft a story for project to be put in your portfolio.

Great examples of scenarios that have a good storytelling aspect to them and also incorporate accessibitly needs in the scenarios.

This site helps you to find the best font pairings.

Nice podcast interview with Laura Kalbag about accessibility. She’s the author of *Accessibility for Everyone*.

This video (and the transcript) provide a good overview of some interaction design principles. It was a good refresher for me on some of what we learned in the workshop, and could be helpful to keep on-hand.

Game Storming is a collection of activities you can use with your team to help solve problems, make desicions, or build processes and strategies. This website lists a ton of activities that works for any size team and even provides activites you can do online as a team. A must have resource for the facilitated leadership course.

A collection of color palettes for visual design. This resource may be helpful for providing examples of the common types of color schemes.

I liked this article because it includes some examples that Brian Suda mentioned in the Information Design workshop, but there are also couple of bad practices that we didn't get to cover.

A good overview of what to expect when usability testing with someone who has autism. The article also explains what you can do when moderating a session with a participant with autism.

This Mashable article outlines ten important things to consider as you're designing a mobile site.