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Inayaili de León Persson
on 1 February 2016

January’s reading list

Design

Here are the best links shared by the design team during the first month of the year:

  1. The Website Obesity Crisis
  2. Cryptaris Mission
  3. Focusing on Customer Top Tasks with Gerry McGovern
  4. Content & Display Patterns
  5. BrandColors
  6. Towards better meetings
  7. This tool connects pencil stubs together
  8. Build your own planet
  9. Solar System: 5 Things To Know This Week
  10. Scientists Find Hints Of A Giant, Hidden Planet In Our Solar System
  11. Product Principles: Read Receipts
  12. One day’s observations from Himawari-8, a Japanese weather satellite
  13. London UX Bookclub
  14. Snowboarding with the NYPD
  15. BoxBox flexible layout demo

Thank you to Alejandra, Ant, Jamie, Joe, Karl, Lívia, Olga, Peter, Robin and Tom for the links this month!

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