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Monday, November 19, 2018

Launch Day 🚀

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Well, today's the day that I flip the switch on this site. To those of you coming here for the first time, welcome! Design Dots aims to be a simple, curated list of design-related links to explore each day (except maybe for Sundays, because football). If you want to read a little more about the intentions of the site, check out the About page. In the meantime, enjoy today's dots.

The State of Javascript 2018

These are the results of a survey of over 20,000 javascript developers, beautifully laid out.

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VisBug

VisBug makes some of the most practical and useful features of Dev Tools accessible to everyone.

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Product

Autumn Floral Wreath Fall Decor

Create amazing prints or invitations with beautiful Autumn-themed floral wreath.

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Freebie

Getting started with accessibility user testing

Technology makes it possible for those with disabilities to be independent and active. So it’s crucial to create digital products with all users in mind.

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Article

Jina Anne

Designer, public speaker, writer, and design systems advocate.

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Saturday, November 17, 2018

Official Launch Coming Up

From the Author

I'm planning on officially launching Design Dots on Monday (Nov 19, 2018). I'm a little anxious ... scratch that. I'm extremely anxious about sharing it with the design community. I'm hoping that it will be well received and folks continue to come back each day. I've found a bit of validation of this idea with design news boards becoming more frustrating to browse each day with their spam and lack of curation. Twitter continues to be a good source of inspiration and news, even though it can get noxiously political at times. That's been one of my principles of success for this site (and Thanksgiving dinners): don't talk about politics or religion.

Anyway, who else is playing Red Dead Redemption 2?

Big Lavender Game

How do you get excited about Old Spice body wash? With an over-the-top, 1st-person shooter game.

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Celebrating the life and legacy of Stan Lee

A collection of excellent Stan Lee illustrations from artists on dribbble.

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Marc Edwards

In addition to running the great bjango, Marc Edwards continues his icon speedruns in this twitter moment. A definite must-follow.

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A Growth Plan for Designers

Visualizing the development of designers has always been difficult for us. Until now.

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Article

Hypebeast Brush Font

Hypebeast – a wonderfully bouncy brush script is free. Don't think, just download it.

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Freebie

Friday, November 16, 2018

State of Design Tools 2018

From the Author

Today the new 1.0 version of InVision Studio came out to add to the ever-expanding list of design tools. This update seems like a good step in the right direction. Though, personally, I'm always eager to see which tool is going to solve the problem of dynamic constraints and basic web technologies. As a product designer for a web-based product, I'm always frustrated by the manual actions needed when mocking up my designs. Some newer tools like Supernova Studio and Bondlayer are making some ripples, but they're not quite there yet. I really think that the first visual design tool to solve for basic things like dynamic constraints, margin, and padding (without requiring a plugin), will be the one to own the industry. I really think we're on the cusp. I'm excited to see what's next!

Ailerons Free Typeface

Ailerons was inspired by aircraft models from the 40s.

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Typeface

Whimsical Sticky Notes

Whimsical now has sticky notes to go with their already excellent wireframe and flowchart tools

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Product

Transmit 5 on the Mac App Store

Transmit, for all you FTP-loving users out there, is back on the Mac App store – with a twist.

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Sean McCabe

Sean constantly ups the bar with design career guidance. He also has the best hair in the industry.

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Building Your Color Palette

How to create a useful color scheme for your app or website.

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Article

Thursday, November 15, 2018

Webflow mastery

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I picked up Ran Segall's extra credit course on advanced webflow techniques. I'm excited to get into it and start polishing some of my webflow skills. If you have seen his master class or his Youtube channel, Flux, you should check them both out.

Windows 10 is getting a ‘Light’ theme for dark mode haters

It wasn’t so long ago that many a PC user was clamoring for a Dark mode on Windows 10. Now that they have it, things are swinging in the opposite direction.

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Article

Brand Identity & Web Design for Tofu Design

A complete website and brand identity design for Tofu Design

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Padding for Nested Symbols in Sketch with Anima

Anima Toolkit is a Sketch Plugin to convert Sketch designs to HTML. It also allows you to use Stacks & Pins for responsive layout, right inside Sketch.

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Rogie King

An amazing illustrator everyone should be following, Rogie helps shape things at Dribbble and SuperteamDeluxe.

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Butler Typeface – 14 weights

Butler is a free serif typeface inspired by a mix between both Dala Floda & the amazing Bodoni family.

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Typeface

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Mystic Logos and Ecommerce Beta

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Mystic Logotypes

Some amazing mystic logo work from the Logobaker community.

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Webflow Ecommerce Beta

The wait is over for the ecommerce feature for Webflow. Go give it a spin!

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Product

AND CO Software for Freelancers

Invoicing, Contracts, Proposals, Expense Tracking, Time Tracking and Task Management.

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Product

Am I a designer or a project manager?

A designer is asking for advice on standard practice for agency workflow. Nicole Beckerman answers.

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Article

Jessica Hische

Jessica Hische needs no intro to most of the design community. A famous letterer and NYT best seller!

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