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Inayaili de León Persson
on 1 December 2015

November’s reading list

Design

Here are the best links shared by the design team in November:

  1. Interview with Darrin Henein
  2. Rapid Prototyping with Gulp, Framer.js and Sketch: Part One
  3. Visualizing Sketch 3.4 New Features
  4. UX Myths
  5. Pantone Smoothies
  6. Shia LaBeouf “Just Do It”
  7. How To Go To Space (with XKCD!)
  8. Astropy: A Community Python Library for Astronomy
  9. Typing “a long time ago in a galaxy far far away” into a Google search
  10. Museum of the World
  11. Big Data or Pokemon?
  12. Listen to Wikipedia
  13. Deja vu

Thank you to Femma, Jamie, Joe, Karl, Luca, Matthieu, Richard and Stephanie for the links this month!

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