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Three personal stories: how to write a motivation letter to a company abroad, an artist residency or a master’s program.

UX writing basics: how text shapes the way an interface comes across.

https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-build-a-better-product-with-ux-writing-926d78209ce8 (translation)

Typography in interfaces: history, readability and font parameters.

Yearly surveys on the state of the main web technologies. A great way to discover tools that are gaining traction and pick up features for the future.

State of JS / State of CSS / State of HTML

Jen Simmons’ layout lab — fun layout experiments, including things you rarely see on the web: CSS shapes, drop caps, vertical writing.

Loads of free videos, sound effects and music. Plus little video templates.

Undesign — a treasure trove of useful links to resources and tools. Like Kello, but as a website.

Refined design by the Paper Tiger agency.

Webflow tells a beautiful story of art history: from cave paintings to web design.

Everything about loading indicators, with tons of examples and explanations of how they work.

Insanely beautiful in its simplicity: a Japanese agricultural company’s website. Grainy photos and vegetables that get sliced as you scroll.

A mesmerizing generator of… hard to say what exactly. But the controls and the result are beautiful.

The 5S site rarely gets updated, but I’ve loved it for years. The team makes cool projects and puts together model reels, and the site changes color when you click the background.

Infographics is one of the most subtle arts in all of design. This site collects interesting data visualizations and articles about infographics.

The maps are mostly about the US, though, but oh well.

Matthew Rayfield's wonderfully insane site with insanely wonderful projects.

Editors that check English text for mistakes. They’ll tell you where to add “the” and when the past perfect continuous works better.

LanguageTool / DeepL Write / Hemingway / Grammarly

A cartoon computer by Mariano Pascual as a portfolio site. Inside: satisfying click sounds, interesting projects and food for thought about unconventional interfaces for your own work.

Nikita Prokopov is a talented programmer and designer with a great blog. He made the Fira Code font, the Grumpy Website and the Стой под стрелой channel.

One of his landmark posts is Software disenchantment.

An article about the big red button, junior vs. senior, and mindfulness in design. Feels like something everyone should know.

A very weird, clunky short film I dearly love: Ugly, with a low-poly glitchy cat, “about kindness and coexistence.”

Search by color. You can copy hex codes and check the sources.

Need Photoshop but don’t have it? At least there’s a decent online alternative.

Oleg Danilov talks about jellyfish and butts, and shows the scale of the solar system and the radioactivity of isotopes. The interactive bits are fun to click, and every text is a pleasure to read.

Type scale generator