86 SKETCH SHORTCUTS THAT EVERY PRODUCT DESIGNER SHOULD BE USING invisionapp.com

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

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Choose the perfect colour palette for your website creativebloq.com

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!

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Markdown Editor Reader jbt.github.io

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.

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Making CSS Animations Feel More Natural | CSS-Tricks css-tricks.com

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

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7 Storytelling Structures to Improve Your Presentations (Infographic) entrepreneur.com

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.

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Accessibility in User-Centered Design: Example Scenarios uiaccess.com

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

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Font Pair fontpair.co

This site helps you to find the best font pairings.

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Game Storming gamestorming.com

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.

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The Art Of The Intercept: Moving Beyond “Would You Like To Take A Survey?” smashingmagazine.com

In this article, it outlines the best practices for intercepting people for field studies. It covers every step from planning the study to how you stop people to participate in an interview. A great article to read if you’re new to planning a field study!

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Information Architecture Lenses medium.com

In this article Dan Brown talks about the different lenses you can look at information architecture through. He discusses in detail about some of these lenses but he says in total there are 43 that he's discovered so far. This is a great resource for those who have an interest in IA and want to expand their knowledge of it.

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Accessibility for Visual Design uxbooth.com

In this article, they talk about the things you need to consider for your user when making decsions about your visual design. It covers common mistakes that are made when it comes to choosing colors and visual elements as well quick fixes for those mistakes.

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Connecting With Users: Incorporating Humor In Web Design – Smashing Magazine smashingmagazine.com

Adding humor into your design can be challenging if it's not used in the right context. In this article, they cover when and where it's best to use humor. The benefits of using it and the different types of humor you can end up applying to your design.

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Color Safe - Accessible Web Color Combinations colorsafe.co

Color Safe is a tool to explore beautiful, accessible color palettes for your website based on Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

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